LORD BYNG’S £31,000
Large Bequests For Staff
Viscount Byng of Vimy, war hero and one-time Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, who died in June, left £31,002.
Ho gives his Field Marshal’s baton to his old regiment, the 10th Royal Hussars, and his other Service relics, after the death of his wife, lo the Karl of Strafford. Each servant of 20 years’ service receives £lOOO, those of 15 to 20 years £750, 10 to 15 years £5OO, live to ten years £2OO, and those of less than live years a year’s wages. The residue is bequeathed to Lady Byng for her life. After her death lie leaves £5OOO to Sir Basil Brooke, his war-time A.D.C., and the ultimate remainder to Eva Bettine Sandford. Miss Sandford is an old family friend, and has been a member of the household for the past 12 years. “Lord Byng had no children, and Miss Sandford was treated and looked upon almost as a daughter,” a friend of the late Field-Marshal told the “News Chronicle,” “and acted as lady-in-waiting to Lady Byng when Lord Byng wtts Governor-General in Canada."
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 100, 22 January 1936, Page 3
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