TREASURY WINDFALLS
Three Big Estates Increase
Public Funds.
WEALTHY ENGLISHMEN. (United Service.) (Received 1- noon.) LONDON, September 25. The Treasury has revived three more great windfalls to-day. Viscount llambleden, the late head of W. H. Smith, book-tall holders, left an estate of nearly £2.7<»0,(H)0. James Walker Oxley, a retired Leeds banker, recently died at the age of 94. He lived a reserved life and people generally were unaware of his great riches. He left £2.774.541, of which the Treasury gets £1,126,000.
Major Hugh Frederick Gretton. late of the Bass Brewery, left £1,474,000. of which the Treasury received £520.000. Major Gretton, whose will was composed of *J0 words, bequeathed everything to his brother, Colonel J. Gretton, M.P. (Con., Burton).
The Marquis of Lincolnshire left £77,456.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 228, 26 September 1928, Page 7
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124TREASURY WINDFALLS Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 228, 26 September 1928, Page 7
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