DEAD MENS GOLD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 8192, 1 March 1890, Page 2 (Supplement)

DEAD MENS GOLD.

The feature of the wills of 1989 is the important place held in the list by , landowners, titled or otherwise. The year has been a peculiarly fatal one for peers, but the list of wills includes the names of several peers who died in 1888, and does not include nine of those who died during the last four months :— PiJKRS. Earl of Leven and Melville .. ' - >.'£628,891 Karlof ItaUnor.. .. .. . .. .. 263 >^ Viscount Portmaii .. ~ .... •• '^'^ Lord Newboruu .. .. .. •• 2*0,292 Lady VVillotisbby d'Krosby .... .. »»7,U08 Lord Ashburtoii .. .. .. .. ~ a "!M!„ l/>rd Kvorsloy ■;«. .. ... .... .A,, LordDunsany .. .. .... . .. 13.-,884 Minor personalties were those of the Earl of Mahnesbury, £91,762} Duke of Buckingham, £79,042; Lord Mount Temple, £76,123 ; Earl of Effingham, £61,759 ; Earl of Orkney, £00,303; Marquis of Sly, £52,327 ; Earl of .Mar and Kellie, £46,522; Earl of Lucan, £44,600 ; Earl of Caithness, £32,811 Earl of (iranard, £31,573; Earl of Portarlington, £28,856 Lord Seaton, £28,161; Lord Teynham, £10,114 Lord Lifford, £7724; Marquis of Donegal!, £4997; and Earl of Devon, £2589. A peer's personal estate is usually insignificant compared with his reality ; so this list is sufficiently remarkable. The Earl of Leven, who heads the list, was an exception. He made his money in Williams and Deacon's Bunk, and was so much more a businessman than a squire that he deprived a brother of a large share of his Fortune for sending a son to Downing College, Cambridge, and so " unfitting him for business." Of wills net yet proved, large personalties may be looked for in the cases of Lord Addington, Lord Falmouth, and Lord Digby. OTHER LANDOWNERS. Lady Ossinnton.. .. £409,000 Colonel Tmulino, Orwell Park .. .. 353,503 Griffith Llewellyn, Baglan Hall, Glamorgan .. ..... .. .. 352,600 T. J. Philip Joddrel, of Slialcross.. .. » 285,503 James follower, KlUVatoil House, Dorset 264,881 Sit Thomas Gladstone, Hart., of Fa-quo.. 254,079 H. M. Ankotell Jones, ilellevue Park, Ireland .. .. 224,210 Sir John .Ralph Blois, Bart., of Ctocktleld 220,033 TWO MILLIONAIRES. John Rylanda, Ilylaiids and Son.. .. £2,674,922 Sir William I'oarce, Bart., shipbuilder.. 1,069,000 This makes a poor show compared with the four millionaires whose deaths provided duty on between six and seven millions in 1888. A large proportion of the commercial fortunes were made in— LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE. Julius Behrens, Manchester.. .. ~ £420,3W Mrs. Piatt, StaleybridKO Mills .. .. 412,000 T. B. Gunstoa, tiunst.oll and Sons, Liverpool .. ' ..--•- .. 355,288 .Tamos Murray, Manchester cotton spinner 33ft,t>5^ Wm. Carver, Manchester cotton spinner 272,252 J. Collier Harter, Manchester drysalter.. 267,000 Wm. Tippinß, of Bold".. 235,400 Henry H. Hornby .. .. 235,000 Many merchants and manufacturers of these counties left fortunes of from £100,000 to £200,000. ■ MERCHANTS AND MANUFACTURERS. Wm. J. Cookson, Newcastle and Worksop, chemicals .. .. .. .. .. fS^.OOO Fred. J. Bryant, Bryant and May, matches 272,321 Geo, Berwick, baking-powder .. .. 259,740 David Spencer, Coventry, wool .. .. 240,(.'00 .Tamos Cane, chemical manufacturer .. 910,000 Geo. Wills, Bristol, tobacco 161,677 Th. Hollin?sworth, Maidstone, paper .. 125,573 Jos. Lewis, silk manufacturer .. .. 124,590 Beer and whisky are moro than ever to the fore in the wills of the year, as this list will show :— BREWERS AND DISTILLERS. James Jameson, distiller, Dublin .. .. £489,352 Dan. 'J hwaito>s, brewer, Blackburn .. 40-1,610 W. H. Crawford, brewer, Cork .. .. 328,000 It. Prior, brewer. Hatlield 171,180 John Thwaites, brewer, Blackburn .. 164,000 W.T.Dibb, brewer, Hull .. .. .. 102,030 John Turner, brewer, Chiswick .. .. 154,422 Wm. Smith, brewer, Sheffield .. .. 140,065 John Holt, brewer, Katcliff. 116,670 Wm. Shaw, brewer, Ashum-under-Lyne.. 114,334 E..K. Purdhara, brewer, Ashwell, Herts.. 118,475 To these must be added many rich wine merchants, one of whom, Mr. George Simon, of London, had amassed £140,000; and Mr. Gibson Black, of Dublin, £110,401. COAL AND IRON. Robert Vowler, plough works, Leeds .. £210,617 Win. Xledley, BumhupesiJe Collieries .. 174,119 Rt. S. Newall, submarine) cables, Gateshead .. .. .. .. .. .. 166,031 Herbert Clarke, London, coal merchant.. 157,336 win L. Pease, Skerne Ironworks .. 14.',004 RAILWAYS. Sir Daniel Gooch, Great Western Chairman .. .. £053,492 Colonel McMurdo, Delagoa Day Concessions .... .. •->•■';. .'-.. ~ 395,780 Charles Sacro, Chief Engineer Sheffield '■■■; Railway .. .. .. ~ .. 105,888 Sir James Falshaw, Bart., a railway engineer, died worth £SS,OOO, and Mr. Robert G. Underdown, manager of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln Railway, worth £62,841. BANKERS AND FINANCIERS. Charles K. Norman, Baring's .. .. £908,000 Charles C. Gooch, Peabody Brothers .. 502,122 Edward .Raphael, banker and stockbroker 348,618 Sir James Watson, Glasgow, stockbroker 12*1,152 H. A. Wcdd, stockbroker .. .. .. 118,291 W. H. Wakefield, banker, Kendal.. .. 111,000 Lord Walter Campbell, stockbroker .. 14,140 The will of another rich north-country banker, Mr. \V. 11. Leatham, of Leatham, Tew, and Co., has yot to be proved. MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT. .Sir William rfwart. Belfast, linen .. .. £350, Richard Peacock, Gorton, locomotives .. 204, i; Hubert Stewart Menzies, of Halliburton, East Perthshire .. .:■ .. .. 90, ".& John Bright, Birmingham, cotton.. .. 65,-. . Major Trottor, railway director, Colchester 06,176 Major Dickson, Dover 20,000 Sir W. Tiudal iiobertson, Brighton .. 15,802 Major O'Gorman .. .. .. .. 8,269 Major Boss, Maidstone 6,132 IV. B. 11. Powell, West Carmarthen .. 0,000 J. F. B. Pirth, Dundee ..... .. 3,779 Turning to the professions, tho wills of many wealthy clergymen have been proved —the Key. Henry Arkwrighb's, of Bodenham, Hereford, and Dr. Parkinson's, of Kewnham, under £134,000 and £111,000 respectively—but the Church had nothing to do with it. The Bishop of St. Asaph's estate was £23,646. A wealthy Nonconformist minister is of rare occurrence. Law is, as usual, largely represented. LAW. Robert Moon, barrister £300,060 John Walker, barrister 178,0=10 Richard Bradshaw, solicitor .. .. 150,717 Lord Fraser, Scotch judge .. .. .. 47,000 ./Eneas Molntyrc, comity court judge .. 44,785 i h. J. Barstow, Loudon magistrate .. 20.000 Henry Ji.lnce, Q.C. .. 19,781 Sir. Fied. Pollock, Queen's Ilemembr nicer .. .. .. 10,770 Dr, Habershon and Dr. Blain each left more than £50,000, but three London chemists had amassed more than this—Mr. W. J. Bush, £90,075; Mr. F. Barron, £77,402 ; and Sir Thomas Dakin, £60,530. Literature is its own reward, save in tho case of printers and publisher!). Witness this :— LITERATURE AND ITS OFFSHOOTS. Warren de la Rue £307,142 Robert K. Hurt, publisher 22,000 Wm. Leighton," publisher 11,002 Wilkio Collins 10,881 Kliza Cook .. ~ 5,057 W. It. S. Balaton 5.475 Lawrence Oli pliant .. .. .. .. 1.442 15. L. Blanchard .. 411 To which perhaps we should add Richard Piggott, £1005. Some interesting entries in art are Richard Redgrave, R.A., £42,709; J. O'Connor, scene-painter, £1358 ; Carlo Pellegrini, £211. MUSIC, THE DRAMA, AND ENTERTAINKR3. Carl Rosa .. .. £78,758 William 1). Forster, dramatic company promoter .. 44,074 John Sanger, circus 40,717 Charles Head, lessee of Grand Theatre .. 20,772 II; B. Farnie. dramatic author .. .. 23,072 Fred Heiißlcr, circus 0,008 Charles Duval .. .. 1i,8.'!5 Irving Bishop .. 400 Vance .. ~ .. 39 The greatest personalty of the year left by a lady was that of Mies Ryland, of Birmingham, whose trustees paid probate on £747,702. Lady (Islington's has been mentioned. Sir John Hnytor's mother left £225,000, and Mrs. Walker, of Blvth Hall, Nottingham, £224.000. The fortune of the late Duchess of Cambridge was £159,340.