A STRAY FORTUNE
OVER TWO MILLIONS PETITION TO THE CROWN By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright LONDON, Tuesday. A number of persons, to which Viscount Bangor has added his name, have petiticned the Crown claiming' a fortune, estimated at .L 2,500,000, under romantic circumstances. In 179 S Maria Lepine, who had been certified to be insane, died, leaving a fortune of C 92,000, which the Crown claimed as she was believed to be illegitimate. Lord Bangor and the other petitioners now claim tliat her parents were secretly married before her birth. They assert that after years of search proof of the marriage has been found in the register of marriages in the church or St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields, London. The six Hi Viscount Bangor. Maxwell Richard Crosbie Ward, was born in 1868 and educated at Harrow School and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. He •ntered the army in 1887 and retired in h*l2. He served in Ihe European War. it su.reeded his father in the title in 911. The title dates from 1781. The present viscount is an Irish Representaivc Peer.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 144, 8 September 1927, Page 10
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176A STRAY FORTUNE Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 144, 8 September 1927, Page 10
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