BIRKIN'S STORY

Evening Star, Issue 18034, 31 July 1922, Page 10

BIRKIN'S STORY

SIDELIGHT OH WELLINGTON CHARGE. - EIS FATHER’S FORTUNE. ‘■An intcresing sidelight on the charge Jtafr Richard Noel Belcher Birkin at WdHngton of obtaining money under falsa pretences (he was sentenced to one month s Imprisonment) is given m the West A» trikn ’ of July 8; which records the enormous fortune left by Sw Thomas Isaat Birkin, the Nottingham lawmaker (Birkm •when charged' alleged that after his father dMth he would come into much proto the journal named the estate of Sir Thomas Isaac Beikin, Bt., o Budding ton Grange, Nottingham, head of the great lacemaking firm of Birkm and Co., who died' on January 16 at the ago of- ninety, is provisionally estimated; at £2,142,219, including net personal estate of £2,057,552. The approximate duty pajajble will exceed £900,000. • The late baronet, after making special provision for his three daughter and two of hi* six sons, left the bulk of his fortune to his other four sons-Bir Stanley Birkin (the new baronet), Colonel Charles Birkin, Major Philip Birkin and Major Lawrence Birkin. Ho left £SOO to the Nottingham General Samaritan Hospital, £SOO to-the Nottingham General Hospital, £SOO to the curates’ augmentation fund, and) £1,500 to the Nottingham Children s Hospital, all free of death duty. The Ruddington Grange Estate is settled to follow the baronetcy. During his lifetime Sir Thomas Birkm was a liberal benefactor to Nottingham, bis gifts including a completely-equipped) hospital for children. He was a director of the Great Northern Railway Company. One of his grand-daughters is the wife of Mr Dudley Ward, M.P., Vice-Chamberlain of the Household.