LATE LORD BIRKENHEAD
A SMALL ESTATE
DECLARED AT £SOOO,
FAMILY POORLY PROVIDED FOR
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Tile News Chronicle says the late Lari of Birkenhead left a net estate , r £SOOO, excluding his country. house mar Banbury Cross. The estate would have been much .arger but it owes £20,000 in income ax, which is offset by £30,000 of life usurancc. . ■ , Lord Birkenhead had lately received i substantial income from directorships, but lie lived generously and icted with immense and uncalculating liberality toward his friends and all icrsons seeking his help. As a resull ‘us family is left poorly provided for. In recognition of his public services aid out of affection for himself and ills family many well-known. people Have provided a fund, organised by Mr Winston Churchill, who was a lose friend of Lord Birkenhead. The contributors include the Earl jf inchcape, the Duke of Westminster, ,ord Beaverbrook,. and Mr Reginald Purbrick, ALP. for .the Walton Di.ision of Liverpool, who was born in Meibom, e, who each gave £SOOO. The fund exceeds that similarly subscribed on behalf of the late Earl of Oxford and other impoverished public menr Lord Birkenhead’s heir is at present’ at Oxford, arranging to write a hook on his father's life.
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Waikato Times, Volume 109, Issue 18258, 20 February 1931, Page 7
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