SUDDEN DEATH
SIR KINGSLEY WOOD
CHANCELLOR OF EXCHEQUER
LONDON, September 21. The death occurred today from heart failure of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Kingsley Wood.
Sir Kingsley Wood's death came as a great shock to members of the House of' Commons as they were assembling in high spirits for the first meeting after the summer recess and in expectation of hearing important war news. Sir Kingsley Wood was due, an .hour after his death became known, to make a statement in the House announcing that it had been decided to j adopt the pay-as-you-earn income tax scheme for certain classes of wage earners. It was the last important financial plan Sir Kingsley Wood drew up, and he was very hopeful that it j would be a popular success, in view of the many demands which had been I made for it.
A son of the late Rev. A. Wood, a Wesleyan minister, Sir Kingsley Wood, who was born in 1881, was admitted a solicitor in 1903. For eight
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 72, 22 September 1943, Page 4
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