Lord Mount Stephen, who recently gave '•' £11,000 a year to the King's- Hospital ' fund, is said to owe his success in life t'a singular coincidence. After being a " herd laddie" in Banffshire, and a draper';? apprentice in Aberdeen, he vent to Loudon, and for about three years was in ii* -•- wholesale house in St. Paul's Churchyard. One day lie signed* an order.from a 'customer who had come from Montreal. - The J customer, noticing his signature, made in-""' quiries, and found that the: lad was hi.; .' cousin. Ho invited him to go :to Canada,...-.; where the foundations of his enormous fortune were soon laid. - M
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12855, 2 May 1905, Page 3
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