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Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7749, 15 July 1916, Page 3 (Supplement)

FORTUNES FOR SERVANTS. Tly* recent legacy of £20,000 to her maid by the Dowager Countess of Wilton is not by any menus the biggest sum ’eft to a servant, even in recent In 1011, for example, a Buckinghamshire lady, Mrs Anna Pilgrim, left her entire fortune, over LIOO,OOO to Per coachman, while in 1906 a Miss Cohen left her ax-footman a sum of £60,000. Olio of the most curious bequests was that made by the late Air Alexander Flomong, a member of the famous firm k of William Baird, the Scottish ironmasters. When be died in 1909 lie left a sum of £IO,OOO to a Scottish piper who bad whiled away the millionaire’s hours of illness Ivy playing the bagpipes in his bedroom. Perhaps the mos't generous bequest of an employe ]• to a servant was that of the wealthy London architect, Alp Grumnor. When lie died he left the who’e of his business, worth some £200.000, ns n going concern, to his assistant. Air Felly.