Twelve Million Pounds Baby.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XL, Issue 8, 22 February 1908, Page 41

Twelve Million Pounds Baby.

A boy who will never lack pocket money is the son of Mrs. John Nicholas Brown, sister of Mrs. George Vanderbilt. Little Johnny, who is now seven years old, is heir to £2,00(1,000 and by the time he is twenty will be worth another £6,000,000 sterling. He has three palatial residences and a yacht, and when he travels he is accompanied by a special physician, a governess, a valet, two trained nurses, and six servants. John is by no means the richest baby in America, however. Trio baby boy born to Air. W. K. Vanderbilt, brother to the Duchess of Marlborough, would regard such an assertion with a contemptuous sniff; for he beats Brown’s baby by some £ 10.000000. The Vanderbilt youngster is heir to a little fortune of £ 12,000,000, his mother being a Miss Virginia Fair, who had £2,000,000 of her own at her marriage to add to her husband’s fortune of £20,000.000. The richest boy in the world, however, is Marshall Field, the twelve-year-old millionaire, whose grandfather, a Chicago storekeeper, died last year and left a fortune of £30,000.000. © © ©