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“SCOTTISH MONK’S” DEATH. QUEST IN SOUTH AMERICA. Mr. William Mac Queen, the wealthy Scottish entomologist, has. died at Valparaiso, at the age of 45. He contracted a chill when leading a scientific expedition in the wilds of the Aysen territory, skirting Chilean Patagonia, in an attempt to capture a new species of butterfly.. Mr. Mac Queen spent £5OOO on this expedition, because he wished to reach the Aysen territory- before a party of Americans, who also had the idea of being the first to discover this rare butterfly. , . . ' . In Chile, Mr. Mac Queen was known as the “Scottish Monk.” Five years ago, when his faither died, he was stated to have been left a fortune of about £300,000. His father was one of the most successful Glasgow traders on the west coast of South America. * Mr. Mac Queen was educated at Glasgow Academy and at the universities of Edinburgh and Oxford. When the war broke out he was in Germany. He managed to escape, and served with tho Northumberland Yeomanry, taking part in the first battle of Ypres. Mr. Mac Queen leaves a Chilean fortune estimated at £lOO,OOO. He was. an only son and had one sister, Mary Elizabeth Mac Queen, who lives at Wadham, Worcestershire.
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Taranaki Daily News, 15 October 1934, Page 7
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