FORTUNE DWINDLES
BRITISH ARMY OFFICER REVELATION AFTER DEATH LONDON. .Tim. 2 When Major .Tames Archibald Morrison, of the Grenadier Guards, died in October, he unaccountably left only £SOOO instead of £2,000,000, at which amount his fortune was estimated. The testator's uncle left him a fortune of £2,000,000 in 1911. The testator lived as a country gentleman. He had a palatial home at Kensington Court, and was supposed to have kept his expenditure within his income.
The founder of the family fortunes was tho testator's Scottish great-uncle, who came to London with the traditional sixpence in his pocket. Ho became an employee in a drapery shop, married his employer's daughter and founded a warehouse company.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21999, 4 January 1935, Page 9
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