DISINHERITED SON
DEPRIVED OF A FORTUNE. Disinherited by his father from an estate valued at £60,000, Lieut.-Colonel Reginald Brooke, formerly of the Ist Life Guards, left property valued at only £153, with net personality £B4. Lieut.-Colonel Brooke died on August 22 last at Bosham, Chichester, at the age of 79. In a will made in 1930 he left all he possessed to his wife. According to Lieut.-Colonel Brooke’s own story his father, Mr Francis Capper Brooke, of Ufford Place, Sussex, who died in 1886, frequently told him he would be disinherited, on one occasion because he made a speech complimenting a man Mr Brooke did not like. The estate went to a daughter, who
died in 1930 without an heir, and, in accordance with the terms of Mr Brooke’s 'will, it was to go to the heir male of his ancestor, Sir Thomas Brook, who died in 1418. Five years is provided for making a claim, and this period does not end until February 25, 1935. Meanwhile the estate is in possession of Major E. S. Blois-Brooke, whose ancestors married into the Brooke family. Lieut.-Colonel Brooke contested his father’s will, and won at the first hearing, but lost on appeal. Last year it was stated a compromise had been reached by which he received a proportion of the estate.
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Southland Times, Issue 22210, 30 December 1933, Page 7
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219DISINHERITED SON Southland Times, Issue 22210, 30 December 1933, Page 7
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