SIR EDWARD ELGAR
TERMS OF HIS WILL Presv Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, May 11. (Received May 12, at noon.) The will of the late Sir Edward Elgar, the famous composer and Master of the King’s Musick, was proved today with an estate valued at £13,934. “ i regret that owing to the sudden collapse of everything, artistic and commercial, f have found it necessary to revoke my previous will,” states Sir Edward Elgar. “ 1 leave nothing to charity, as 1 have given everything possible during my lifetime. I much regret that it is necessary to cancel legacies to servants, friends, and institutions.” Sir Edward Elgar loft his property on trust for his daughter for life and i hen to his nephews and nieces.
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Evening Star, Issue 21718, 12 May 1934, Page 13
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121SIR EDWARD ELGAR Evening Star, Issue 21718, 12 May 1934, Page 13
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