TALE OF A LOST FORTUNE
FANNY WARD'S FIRST HUSBAND LADY PLUNKET’S FATHER London, Dec. 11. Mr. Joseph Lewis, of King's road, Brighton, and the South African firm of Messrs. Lewis and Marks, one of the 'pioneers of the diamond fields at Kimberley, who died last July, aged 73. left £3,825, net personality £3419. The will reads:— I wish to place on record that, having been a well-to-do man up to the year 1905, and never having owed anyone a single penny, in that year I met with great financial misfortune, and. although the result of this meant absolute disaster to myself. I discharged all
accounts owed by me, notwithstanding that in order to do so 1 rendered myself practically penniless, Mr. Joseph Lewis married Miss Fanny Ward, the actress. The only child of the marriage, oh whom her father settled £50,000 at her christening, married the present Baron Plunket after the death of her first husband. Captain Jack Barnato, the soldier-airman. Mr. Lewis gives the bulk of the property to Lady Plunket. He settled £50,000 on his daughter to accumulate until her coming of age. The will (dated May 12th.. 1922) and codicil are proved by Lady Plunket and Mr. William F. Foster, solicitor.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 30, 22 January 1929, Page 8
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