LONELY AMID WEALTH

Otago Witness, Issue 3526, 11 October 1921, Page 15

LONELY AMID WEALTH

LONDON, September 23. “You may have all the money in the world, yet be a lonely, sorrowing man.” This remark was made by Sir Ernest Cassel —the great banker and philanthropist, who died on Thursday—shortly after tho death of his beloved daughter some years ago.

“The light lias gone out of my life/* he confessed. “I live in this beautiful house, which is furnished with all the luxury and wonders that art could find, but I no longer value my millions or the pictures in my home. I havo sat here for hours every night grieving for my daughter.” Sir Ernest Cassel’s daughter died at Bournemouth of consumption at the ago of 30. Ho had given scores of thousands of pounds for inquiry into tuberculosis anl cancer, but this money did not avail to save the one person in the world he most loved. The specially built bungalow in which sho died was completely removed and re-erected in iiis garden at Moulton Paddocks, Newmarket. lie would sit for hours in it meditating. No other was allowed to approach it. lie sought happiness by devoting himself to his elder grand-daughter, Edwina, a god-daughter to the late King Edward, who is expected to be the principal heiress. Sir Ernest Cassel said there was nothing, even the greatest financial successes, ini life to equal the love of a devoted wife, or the delight of a family of happy children. The things that were best and worth having money could not buy.