SHIPOWNER'S ROMANCE.
FROM POVERTY TO MILLIONS.
ESTATE WORTH £3,615,800 LEFT,
Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 11.45 p.m.) LONDON. July 26.
Sir Robert Ropner, the shipbuilder, left £3,615,800. The estate duties amount to £1,468,000. Sir. Robert was born in Prussia, and his parents intended him for the Lutheran ministry, but he stowed away and landed in England penniless and friendless. Ho entered the employment of a shipping office, and 19 years later become sole owner of a fleet.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18772, 28 July 1924, Page 7
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78SHIPOWNER'S ROMANCE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18772, 28 July 1924, Page 7
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