BIRKENHEAD ESTATE £5000

Taranaki Daily News, 21 February 1931, Page 10

BIRKENHEAD ESTATE £5000

PEER’S IMMENSE LIBERALITY.

FRIENDS PROVIDE BIG FUND. By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. London, February IS.

Lord Birkenhead left a net estate of £5OOO excluding his country house n,ear Banbury Cross. The estate would have been, much larger, but it owes £20,000 income tax, which is oflset by £30,000 life insurance. Lord Birkenhead latterly received a substantial income from directorships but he lived .generously and acted with immense, uncalcuiaiing liberality towards friends and all persons seeking help. This has resulted in his family being left poorly provided for. . In recognition of his public services and affection for himself and his family, many well-known people have provided a fund organised by Mr. Winston Churchill, who was a close friend of Lord Birkenhead. Contributors include Lord Inchcape, the Duke of Westminster and Lord Beaverbrook, who each gave £5OOO. The fund exceeds the total similarly subscribed, on..behalf of Lord Oxford and other impoverished public men. Lord Birkenhead’s heir is at present at Oxford arranging to write a book on hie father’s life. . .