LORD BIRKENHEAD’S ESTATE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 69, 20 February 1931, Page 7

LORD BIRKENHEAD’S ESTATE.

FUND FOR RELATIVES. LONDON, Feb. 18. The News-Chronicle says that Lord Birkfenhead, who died in September of last year at the age of 58. left a net estate of £SOOO, excluding a country house near Banbury Cross. The estate would have been much larger, but it owes £20,000 for income tax, which i 3 offset by a £30,000 life insurance. Lord Birkenhead latterly received a substantial income from directorships, but he lived generously and acted with immense and uncalculating liberality toward his friends and all persons seeking help. This resulted in the family being left poorly provided for. In recognition of his public services and because of affection for the late Earl and his family, many well-known people have provided a fund organised by Air Winston Churchill, who was a close friend of Lord Birkenhead. Tho contributors include Lord Inchcape, the Duke of Westminster,, Lord Beaverbrook, and Air Reginald Purbrick, M.P., late of Alelbourne, who have each given £SOOO. The fund exceeds the total similarly subscribed on behalf of Lord Oxford and other impoverished public men. Lord Birkenhead’s heir is at present at Oxford arranging to write a book on his father’s life.