COLONEL MEEKING'S DEATH.
ESTATE VALUED AT OVER A MILLION. By Telegraph—Press 'Association—Copyright London, March 21. The estate of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Meeking, a wealthy land-owner, whose body has been exhumed by the order of the Home Office, was valued at over a million pounds. He was married to his second .wife in 1907 (a daughter of a French Count, aged twenty-two), and bequeathed to his wife' ,£II,OOO annually. The. Colonel's fortune was derived from his father, a founder of the drapery furnishing business, now known as Thomas Wallis, High Holborn. • ■
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1705, 24 March 1913, Page 7
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89COLONEL MEEKING'S DEATH. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1705, 24 March 1913, Page 7
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