TITLED WOMAN’S DEBTS
£IOOO NECKLACE. Expressing the opinion that it was a case of misfortune,, owing to disastrous realisation of her property in 1929, Mr Registrar Mellor, at the London Bankruptcy Court lately, granted ah order of discharge, subject to a month’s suspension, to Eleanor Lady Torrington, of Shrewton. Wilts. Tire Official Receiver stated that the ranking liabilities were estimated at £6429, and the trustee anticipated that a dividend of 5g 2d in the £ would be paid. This, however, would be reduced to about 4s 6d in the £ in the event of a claim being substantiated by a firm of Lloyd's underwriters for £IOOO in regard to the loss of a pear! necklace while in pawn. Lady Torrington had a capital of £20,000 in 1919, when she bought for £6OOO the Shrewton property and there carried on a stud farm and training establishment.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21432, 5 September 1931, Page 4
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