Impoverished Himself To Help His Friends
ESTATE OF LORD BIRKENHEAD. Received Thursday, 8.45 p.m. LONDON, Feb. 18. The News Chronicle says that Lord Birkenhead left a net estate of £SOOO excluding his country house near Banbury Cross. The estate wop Id havebeen much larger but owes £20,000 income tax which is offset by £30,000 life insurance. Lord Birkenhead latterly received a substantial income from directorships but lived generously and acted an immense uncalculating liberality towards friends and all persons seeking help.. This resulted in the family being left* poorly provided for. In recognition of his public services, and in affection for himself andi his family, many well known people* have provided a fund organised by Mif Churchill, who was a close friend of Lord Birkenhead. The contributors include Lord Inchcape, the Duke of Westminster, Lord Beaverbrook andL Mr Purbrick of Melbourne who each gave £5,000. The fund exceeds the?total similarly subscribed on behalf off Lord Oxford and other impoverished public men. Lord Birkenhead’s heir is at present at Oxford arranging to write a book oeu his father’s life.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 20 February 1931, Page 6
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