PLUNKET ESTATES

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 150, 28 June 1938, Page 9

PLUNKET ESTATES

ANNUITY TO FANNY WARD HUSBAND INTESTATE (From "The Post's" Representative.) LONDON, June 1. Details are made public today of tha estates of Lord and Lady Plunked who were killed in an aeroplane accident at San Simeon (California) in February. Lord Plunket was 38 yean old, and Lady Plunket a year younger. Lady Plunket, daughter of the late Mr. Joseph Lewis, South African diamond merchant, and widow of Captain Jack Barnato, left £462,093, with net personalty £440,922. Estate duty amounting to £168,721 has been paid. Lord Plunket left £66,889, with net personalty £65,619. Estate duty amounts to £12,544. He left no wilL Letters of administration have been, granted to Lady Victoria Braithwaite, Lord Plunket's mother, of the White House, Denham. Bucks, the guardian of his three children, who are minors, and to Lord Londonderry and the Hon. Denis Kiwa Plunket, of Eaton Mansions. S.W. ■ , . ' Probate of the will of Lady Plunket, which was dated November 20 last, has been granted to Lord Londonderry and to Colonel Francis Powell Braithwaite, of The White House, , Denham, and to Mr. Clifford James Hedge, ot Raymond Buildings, Gray's Inn, W.U, solicitor. . Lady Plunket left an annuity ot £4000 to her mother, Mrs. Dean (Miss Fanny Ward, the actress), and on h'er death £1000 and an annuity of £1200 to John W. Dean, an anhuity of £100 to her sister-in-law, the Hon. Eileen Hermione Plunket (now the Hon. Mrs. Earnard), and an annuity of £50 to Nora Johnson. Her other bequests included: —Mementos to Lady Londonderry, Lady Victoria Braithwaite, Margery Thomas, Bruce Ogilvie, Charles Rivett Carnac, Olga Horn, Jim Lawrence (who was injured in the crash). Captain N. R. Blockley, Rollo Hoare, and each of her godchildren; £2000 to Miss Dorothy James, in her service; £500 to her chauffeur, Edwin Leigh; £100 to Walter Burgess, in her service; one year's wages to each other servant of three years' service; five guineas a week to Minnie Westgate, formerly in the employ of the late Joseph Lewis, of Brighton. The residue of the property she left as half to her son, Patrick Terence William Span Plunket, who is 14 years old, and one-fourth to each of her sons, Robin Rathmore Plunket and Shaun Albert Frederick Sheridan Plunket, who are aged 13 and 7 years respectively.