RECLUSE’S ODD WILL

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28532, 11 March 1958, Page 13

RECLUSE’S ODD WILL

Money to be Spent Or Forfeited LONDON, March 9. Two women at Johannesburg have been left £12,000 to spend in travel in the next 10 years—or forfeit to the Nationalist Party, says the United Press. A wealthy recluse, Francis Melville, left all his money to 74-year-old Mrs Adelaine Young and Mrs Margaret Croft, who is 47, on condition that they spent every penny of it seeing the world as he had done when a young man. He died at the age of 73 and boasted of having visited thirtyfour countries. The women were friends of Melville, who lived in one room of a big house packed with bric-a-brac collected from all over the world. He seldom entertained, and when he did so he dressed as a Chinese mandarin. Mrs Young said the will and its strange condition had' left her bewildered. “I am a bit old to start travelling, but I hope to visit Britain and the Continent this summer,” she said.

Mr Barrow Cadbury Dead.— Mr Barrow Cadbury, at 96, the oldest member of the cocoa and chocolate family, died at his house at Birmingham today. He was chairman Of Cadbury Bros, from 1922 to 1932 and chairman of the British Cocoa and Chocolate Company from 1918 to 1932. —Birmingham, March 9.