A WEALTHY RECLUSE
EXCHEQUER MISSES FORTUNE. BEAUTIFUL YOUNG WIDOW. A widow, heiress to £2,000,000, 27 years old and beautiful, is living a life of solitude on her husband’s large and beautiful estate near St. Helier, Jersey. She will receive no visitors and will answer no telephone calls. The windows of her house are shuttered. Since her husband died, she has given notice to forty of their servants, has said goodbye to the crew of their luxury yacht, and has ordered the vessel to the Clyde —for sale. The woman is Lady Knott, widow of Sir James Knott, the 80-year-old millionaire shipowner. What are her plans for the immediate future is a question that is puzzling the minds of the islanders. They believe she is about to leave them. Only twice since her husband's death has she been seen in the town. Sometimes people passing by the Samares Estate have ieen her exercising her horse. Sir James’ eldest son, Thomas Garbutt Knott, to whom the title and one-third of his fortune pass, left Jersey immediately after his father’s funeral. Because Sir James Knott had established domicile in Jersey, the British Treasury loses £1,500,000 in death duty on his estate, which is estimated at £3,500,000.
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 October 1934, Page 7
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203A WEALTHY RECLUSE Taranaki Daily News, 13 October 1934, Page 7
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