FAMILY TRAGEDY
LOSES SONS AND GRANDSON
LI VEHIM'<)!.. Feb. 16. By the death of his 10-months-old grandson and heir at Toronto, Canada news of which reached Liverpool In day. Sir Max Muspratt. a director of Ini periftl Chemical Industries and a mem ber of the Liverpool Coy Council, liar suffered his third bereavement nithn ,13 months. Mr. Rudolph Muspratt, the only son of Sir Max and Lady Muspratt, died following an operation for appendicitis in January last yea.r, and his twin sons were born two months later. Mrs. Muspratt, his widow, returned to ber former home in Toronto, where the elder twin, Rudolph, died three weeks ago.'' The younger twin, Max Liny' Mns'niitl, -was taken to a Toronto bos pital, where several blood transfusion operations were performed but failed t< save ljis life.
When the twins were born a blue ribbon was tied round the wrist of the first born so tbnt there should be no mistajvi as to the heir to the baronetcy.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17232, 11 April 1930, Page 2
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