SIR M. WAECHTER’S ESTATE

Evening Star, Issue 18809, 6 December 1924, Page 10

SIR M. WAECHTER’S ESTATE

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright,

LONDON, December 4. (•Received December 6, at. 9.40 a.m.)

Sir Max Waechtnr left £608,697 net, on which the death duties amount to £70,000. He left half of the residue to the successor to the title, and half to a nephew in Berlin, stipulating that if the present Gorman legacy laws Lire not. repealed the nephew must reside in the British Empire and become a British subject. A. and N.Z. Cable,

(Sir Max Leonard Waechter was horn at'Stettin, in Germany, in 1837. Ho was educated at Stettin, and went to England in 1859, being naturalised in 1865. He founded the Victorian Convalescent Home for Surrey Women, the Princess Mary Memorial Home of Rest, and the King Edward VIT. Memorial Home for Surrey’ Children, all at Bognor. He published it pamphlet on the Federation of the States of Europe, and lectured on the .subject at the London Institution in 1909. He took ft keen interest in motoring and yachting.]