WOMEN MILLIONAIRES

Evening Star, Issue 19994, 11 October 1928, Page 4

WOMEN MILLIONAIRES

GREAT MEN’S FORTUNES WORLD’S RICHEST HEIRESSES. The portraits of tho_ wealthiest women in England, to which those of Lady find Miss Yule can now bo added, would form a wonderful golden gallery of beauty. No woman in the country has yet made £1,000,000 by her own efforts. Nearly a dozen women, however, have inherited vast fortunes and great estates from men. Sir David Ynlo, one of the _ haltdozen richest men in Groat Britain, who died recently at the ago ol sixtynine, was said to bo worth between £15,000,000 and £20,000,000, _ was a senior director of the firms of Andrew Yule and Co., Indian merchants, of Calcutta and London, and oi \ulo,, Catto, and Co., of London. He was a director of the Midland Bank, of Vickers, Ltd., and of the Royal Exchange Assurance Company. Sir David spent most of his time in India, and although lie possessed such vast wealth, took little part m public affairs. For a millionaire lie was of very simple tastes. Fishing and the collection of Indian colour prints were his only hobbies. Sir David's only child and heiress, Miss Gladys Yule, live years ago accompanied her mother on an adventurous journey to Alaska and the Yukon, where the cold was so intense that their hair was frozen stiff as they slept. There is no heir to tho baronetcy, which was created in 1922. Such women ns Lady and Miss Vulo arc by far tho most interesting to many members of their sex (says a London writer). Tho woman who is famed for her beauty, the one who has achieved great things, and her sister who is socially eminent are not half so fascinating to tho great multitude of their less fortunate sisters as the woman who wields tremendous wealth. One of the most beautiful of England’s richest heiresses is Lady Louis Mountbatten, who married tho son of the late Marquis 'of Milford Haven, better known as Prince Louis of Battenberg. When her grandfather. Sir Ernest Cassell, died she inherited a fortune of more than £2,0(l0,00U. The heiress whoso inheritance caused the most discussion is Lady Houston, sometimes described as the “ .sixmillion widow.” Lady Houston, win is extremely fond of yachting, remain! at sea for long spoils when she is ab sent from her homo at Hampstead. Lady Ludlow, who inhoritet £1,000,000 mid Bath House, Piccadilly, from her first husband, Sir Julius Wernher, is famed lor her jewels. Some of these, with so j valuable antiques, recently were the object of a. skilful robbery.

Viscountess Rhondda, inheritor of her father's fortune and title, is one of the busiest of the “ wealthiest women.” Sire is director of many companies, a shrewd woman of business, and has expended much time and money in championing the cans); of her sex in tho [louse of Lords.

Another wealthy wornen_ is Lady Hudson, formerly Lady Northelilfo, whoso second husband was Sir Robert Hudson, the groat ed Cross organiser. Lady Hudson inherited a considerable fortune_ from her first husband. Prominent among tho richest young women is Baroness Ravensdalc, daughter of tho late Marques Curzon of Kcdicston, and heiress, to the Loiter millions. Baroness Ravensdalc, tall, dark, and striking-looking, is a capable speaker and an ardent champion o' women’s rights.