BOUNTIFUL BACHELOR.
LIVES LAVISHLY
LEAVES MANY LEGACIES
(Australian and N,7>. Cable Association LONDON, June 1.2.
The story of a, Stealthy bachelor as Prince Bountiful is related by the Daily Kxpress, which discloses that the fate Mr. Thompson Jowett, steel manufacturer, of Sheffield, left .a- fortune of £700,000 after making provision for his aged another and for his death duties. lie leaves the residue to 64 beneficiaries, who are mostly children of his friends, who vrill receive about £6030 each. fth\ Jowett, lor years was one of the most popular bachelors in London. He began life in humble beginnings, and worked up his business from the tiniest affair, lie lived for mrtnv years in a magnificent suite of rooms at Savoy Court, where he entertained his friends in a. most lavish fashion, thinking nothing of bringing a Continental chef specially to prepare a single rare dish for his guests. Vet he himself was a vegetarian, living in the simplest manner.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17059, 14 June 1926, Page 8
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