A WILL BAN.
FATT IER-I X-LAW’S ORDER
NO SHAPE FOP ROSIE POLLY OR HEP, CHILDREN.
Miss Rosie Dolly, one of the Dolly Sisters, the music-hall entertainers, lias been debarred hy her father-in-law, the late Sir Mortimer Barnett Davis, the tobacco magnate, from sharing in any of the proceeds of his estate.
Miss Rosie. Dolly secretly married Sir .Mortimer's son, Air Mortimer Davis, on March 31 last year, and any children shci may have will become disinherited as in the will ot Sir Mortimer it is directed that : Onc-haif of the residue of his property shall go upon trust for his son Mortimer for life, with remainder to follow the. other one-half, stipulating that his son Mortimer’s interest is to be restricted to him personally and not passed to lii.s wife or issue.
Sir Mortimer, who was president o' the Imperial Tobacco Company of Canada, left a large fortune, the .amount of which is not disclosed.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10752, 24 November 1928, Page 3
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155A WILL BAN. Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10752, 24 November 1928, Page 3
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