VISCOUNT'S FAILURE

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 81, 31 December 1919, Page 3

VISCOUNT'S FAILURE

EMIL'S WOT ATTmnTFS PLIGHT TO irONEYLENBERS. Creditors of Viscount UfP.nirton, the lWrl of Craven's son, of Chesterfield Gardens, Jfayfair, met at London Bankruntcy 'Court and .selected Mr. F. S. Snlanian as tniftea to administer the estate in bfnkruptey. Debtor married in 18t0 llniV Wilhe'.mina George, daughter of AVilliam flporie, town clerk, of Invergordon. According to the stateinent'of affairs, tho unsecured liabilities amount to <£?u22, and tk- assets io -f302.> whilo tho deficiency account showed that h'fi expenditure since February 11 last bad amounted to .««»(,'as ari'nst an mome for the same period of ,tSSS, gifts, ■ and Army pay .£7W. I'ntii liny, lflM, Visx'cunt' UfiinTtc-n was under tuition. Tf.l thfii travelled Enrcoc, and in the autn 11111 of 191+ obtained a cmumisr, on in the 3rd Hampsihires. In (he follow, ins' year be sailed tn the B.ermu<ias. bein" attached f o the Srd Automobile Battalion. In Ofay, Ifllfi, lie 1? turned to England, and proceeded to France in 'l">ece:nb»r of .that year. ITe returned to Kr.'-lnnd lite next'ir-cnth owing to ill-l'c-Ali. On iii'". recovery lie went jo Vlrypt. whence be r ailed for Franco iu Jifay, 19Iti, In the Pcptcmbp;' deb'or was severe! 7' wounded, lc—ll his right leg and receiving a. perm' nll ent injury to his left arm. S lice his di'cK'rws from hospital lie h.cd'lren on sick )c«r«. Viscount I T( fin«jt«n attained h ! s nworitv in • r 'tly, l!)lfi.~wheu bis father paid all h's then o X : s t'n.T drbts. lie attributed his lion to borrowing from moneylender* and to his inability to j»v the interesf.Dcbtnr mad'; no pKmo-.nl/nnd, as etated, a Irustce was appointed.