A GENEROUS BACHELOR
PLAYS PART OF PRINCE BOUNTIFUL. STEEL MAGNATE LEAVES FORTUNE TO CHILDREN. (Rec. 5.5 pjn.) London, June 12. The story of a wealthy bachelor who acted as “Prince Bountiful” is related by the Daily Express, which discloses that the late Mr Thomson Jowett, steel manufacturer, Sheffield, left a fortune of £700,000. After making provision for his aged mother and death duties, he leaves the residue to 64 beneficiaries, who are mostly children of his friends and who will receive about £6OOO each. Mr Jowett for years was one of the most popular bachelors in London, who began life from humble beginnings and worked up his business from the tiniest affair. He lived mainly in a magnificent suite of rooms at the Savoy Court. There he entertained his friends in a most lavish fashion, thinking nothing of bringing a Continental ehef to specially prepare a single rare dish for hie guests, yet himself a vegetarian living in the simplest manner.
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Southland Times, Issue 19895, 14 June 1926, Page 7
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161A GENEROUS BACHELOR Southland Times, Issue 19895, 14 June 1926, Page 7
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