PRINCE BOUNTIFUL.
WEALTHY BACHELOR »S FORTUNE. CHILDREN OF HIS FRIENDS TO PARTICIPATE. BY CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYBIGHT. LONDON, June 12. The story of a wealthy bachelor who acted as Prince Bountiful is related by the Daily Express, which discloses that the late Thompson Jowett, a steel manufacturer of Sheffield, left a fortune of £700,000. After making provision for his aged mother and death duties, he leaves the residue to sixty-four beneficiaries, who are mostly children of his friends, who will recoive about £6OOO each. Mr Jowett for years was one of the most popular bachelors in London. Ho began life in humble beginnings and worked up his business from the tiniest affair. He lived many years in a magnificent suite of rooms in Savoy Court, where he entertained his friends in a most lavish thinking nothing of bringing a Continental chef specially to prepare a single rare dish for his guests, yet he himself was a vegetarian living in the simplest manner.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 14 June 1926, Page 7
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160PRINCE BOUNTIFUL. Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 14 June 1926, Page 7
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