HEIR TO EIGHT MILLIONS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 73, 20 December 1918, Page 5

HEIR TO EIGHT MILLIONS

CAPTAIN FLETCHER OF SALTOUfI Miss Emily Charlotte Talbot, the rich est woman in tho country, whose fortuni is estimated to be nearly ,£8,000,000, di« on September 21 at 3 Cavendish Square London (reports the "Scotsman"). Shi was 78 years of age. Her nephew, Cap tain Fletcher, of Saltoun, succeeds to tU fortune. The late Hiss Talbot was thi eldest daughter and co-heir of Hr. Christopher P. Jlansef Talbot, who sat in Par] liament as one of tho old Liberals for at unbroken period of 60 years, and was th< father of the House of Commons. Tht property she leaves comprises the whol« of the Ehonddai Valley, Glamorganshire; which includes some immensely rich collieries. , i Miss Talbot built a fine church to the memory of her father at Port Talbotj Her gifts to charities were many, but no one ever know how much she gave, foi it was her custom to subscribe a sum. in her own name and then add larger domv; tions anonymously. To the War Loan last year ft was rumoured that she suki scribed £1,000,000. Morgan Abbey, where Prince Arthur of Connaught was tnined in 1910, is a magnificent place, 1 with a park seven miles round. It con-j tains a. fine orangery, tho origin of which lay in tho wrecking of a Portuguese fruit ship on the coast there. Penrice Castle was converted by Miss Talbot into a convalescent homo for officers, which she' maintained at her own expense. ! Mr. Theodore Talbot, Miss Talbot's only brothor, who did so much for St, Alban's, Holborn, was killed in a hunt-] ing accident in IS7G, and :::. licr father's; death in 1890 she succeeded to tho family' estates. An unmarried sister died in' 1594, nnd. another sister, Mrs. Fletcher,! of Saltoun, in 1913. Mrs. Fletcher's 6on,| Captain A. M. Talbot Fletcher, -whosei 'homo is «t the, ancestral house at Pen-j caitland, will now inherit the estates.) Born in ISSO, he entered the 2nd Life! Guards, and served in the South African! War. He is at present on home service. I He (married in 1902 the eldest daughter I of Sir E. S. Wilmington, fifth baronet, 1 and has two sons and two daughters. It j was his famous ancestor, tho Scottish I patriot, Andrew Fletcher, of Saltoun, I who said: "Give me the making of a! nation's ballads, and I card not who j makes its Uwr- \