ROMANCE RECALLED

Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16834, 28 June 1926, Page 4

ROMANCE RECALLED

LORD LEITH LEAVES £670,000. Lord Leith of Pyvie, of Fyvie Castle, Aberdeen, and St. James' Place, London, who died in November last, aged 78, left estate in Britain valued at £393/iBO, but the total value of the unsettled property is stated to he more than £070,000. The household effects at Fyvie Castle are valued at £59,376, pictures, et., at £29,994, and holdings in War Loans at £178,356. The pictures, tapistry and works of art in his London residence are to devolve as heirlooms, and in settling the Fyvie estate he stated that it was his desire that his successors should not dispose of it while they were able to live there, and should hand it down as a family estate, and that his successors in the estate should always bear the name and arms of Forbes-Lcith of Fyvie. Lord Leith, who was formerly president of the Jolict and Illinois Steel Companies, and of the Federal Steel Company, U.S.A., left £2OOO to ■ his secretary in New York, .lames Simfl, £IOOO to Fyvie Cottage Hospital, and the same amount to the Fyvie Club, £SOO to his valet, Henry Foster, £SOO to his factor, George Cruickshanks, and legacies equal to 10 per cent of the total wages received to each servant who had been in his employ for five years. He settled the Fyvie estate and the various heirlooms upon trust for his daughter and his grandson, Robert lan, and left the rest of his property to relatives. The romance of Lord Leith's career is a story which has often been told. As Alexander Forbcs-Lcith he entered the Royal Navy, and rose to be lieutenant. When his ship was at San Francisco he married the daughter of a St. Louis ironfounder, Mr Derrick A. January, entered on a commercial career, returned to Scotland a millionaire, bought back Fyvie Castle, which had belonged to his ancestors, and in 1905 received a peerage.