FORTUNATE HEIRESS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21148, 4 October 1930, Page 4

FORTUNATE HEIRESS.

BIG FORTUNE AT TWENTY-FOUR. ' INVALID BAN ON MARRIAGE. A correspondent of the Daily Express visited “ the heiress who is not to marry,” at Staplehuret, Kent, recently. The writer says that the heiress is a pretty, fair-haired girl of 24. presiding over a fete in aid of the church of which her father is rector. She is Miss Marjorie Joyce ' Clementson, who last April inherited Knoll House, Staplehurst, a motor car, and the residue of a fortune of £78,000 left to her by Mr John Samuel Newlyn, a 74-year-old company director. Mr Newlyn directed in his will that Miss Clementson should forfeit the inheritance if she married, and that his estate should go to charity. . It was stated by Miss Clementson that she has received hundreds of proposals of marriage since the news of ner fortune was published. “I have rejected them all,” > she said. “ though I should not lose my inheritance if I did marry, since the law does not permit such a condition as that imposed by Mr Newlyn’s will to stand.”

Miss Clementson lives alone with her servants in the great house, and occasionally entertains young friends to lawn tennis parties. She still conducts her own pack of “Brownies.”

When asked if she intended to. marry, she shyly evaded the question. At any rate, she is not yet engaged. Another somewhat similar case is that of the estate of £49,160, which, subject to a number of small bequests, was left to his fiancee. Miss Dorothy Ethel Green, by Mr George Jobson Marples, a barrister of the Inner Temple, living at Thornbridge Hall, Bakewell, Derbyshire, who died last -December, aged 84 years. The bequest, which is effective so long as Miss Green shall remain a spinster, is conditional on her assuming the surname, arms, badge, and motto of the family of Marples within a year from becoming entitled to the property.