TALE OF A LOST FORTUNE.
LADY PLUNKET'S FATHER.
FANNY WARD'S FIRST HUSBAND
[from our own correspondent.]
LONDON. Dec. 11
Mr. Joseph Lewis, of King's Road, Brighton, and the South African firm of Messrs. Lewis and Marks, one of the pioneers of the diamond fields at Kimberley, who died last July, aged 73, left £3825, net personalty £3419. The will includes the following passage: "I wish to place on record that, having been a well-to-do man up to the year 1905, and never having owed anyone a single penny, in that year I met with great financial misfortune, and, although the result of this meant absolute disaster to myself, I discharged all accounts owed by me, notwithstanding that in order to do so I rendered myself practically penniless."
Mr. Jpseph Lewis married Miss Fanny Ward, the actress. The only child of the marriage, on whom her father settled £50,000 at her christening, married the present Baron Plunket after the death of her first husband, Captain Jack Barnato, the soldier-airman. Mr. Lewis gives tho bulk of the property to Lady Plunket. He settled £50.000 on his daughter to accumulate until her coming of age.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20176, 9 February 1929, Page 12
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192TALE OF A LOST FORTUNE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20176, 9 February 1929, Page 12
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