FORTUNE FOR CATHEDRAL
£lO A WEEK. FOR WIDOW
LONDON. March 6
Thomas Shufflebottom, leading Liverpool Methodist, left in his will, published this week, the residue of his C.Sa.ooo fortune to Liverpool Cathedral. He bequeathed .£52(1 a year Io his wife.
Mrs grey-haired, 72 years old. said: “1 am bewildered by (he will. We celebrated our golden
wedding some time before my husband
■ died. We were perfectly happy to'gciher. lie was a china merchant and jiiud a prosperous business in Liverpool. In the early days when he was struggling, I helped him in the shop; I looked after the business while he went buying.” Mrs Shufflebottom will probably have lo give up her home and dispense with the car and chauffeur. A Liverpool Cathedral official said: "Of courst*. wo are delighted. All the same, we cannot understand it.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 19 April 1937, Page 10
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