"LONELIEST ON EARTH"
MAN WITH £2000 A YEAR LEAVES NO HEIR. (UNITBD PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPYRIBBT.) (AHSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CAII.E ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, 7th March. The Coroner at Westminster described Henry House, a retired Indian Civil servant, who died suddenly in a London hotel, as "possibly, the loneliest man on the face of the earth." He had an income of over J32CCO a year, yet he was homeless, friendless. , and without relatives. He wandered from hotel to hotel, Jiving frugally on 12s a day. The Coroner regretted that relatives could not be foundj as £2000 a year was going begging.
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 58, 9 March 1923, Page 7
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96"LONELIEST ON EARTH" Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 58, 9 March 1923, Page 7
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