BLACK BUDDHA BEQUEATHED TO MR CHURCHILL
(10.50 a.m. LONDON, Dec. 16.
General Sir lan Hamilton left an estate valued at £98,055. Bequests included an annuity of £2OO to his private secretary for 31 years, Mrs. George Shield. Sir lan Hamilton left many mementoes to relatives and friends, including a black Buddha taken from a deserted temple near Mandalay during the Burmese war in 1880, to Mr. Churchill in the hope that “in the worst stress of politics a glance at the placid features of this emblem of divinity will help him to keep on smiling.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22513, 17 December 1947, Page 7
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