LORD RIDDELL’S WILL
Numerous Bequests Made (Received January 17, 5.5 p.m.) London, January 16. The late Lord Riddell, the.newspapcr magnate, left £1,838.901. Estate duty of £784,021 has been paid. The bequests include £lOOO each to Mr. Lloyd George and Mr. Winston Churchill; £3OOO each to two personal servants; £2OOO to a bookkeeper; £lOOO to a messenger; £5OO and an annuity of £7OO a year to his male secretary ; £2OOO and an annuity of £BOO £lOOO to a messenger; £5OOO and an annuity of £3OO to his motor driver; six weeks’ salary to all employees of the “News of the World” ; £lOOO to James Braid. professional at the Walton Heath golf course, of which Lord Riddell was proprietor: £2OO each to two assistants; and £lOO each to other club employees, liberal bequests to other employees, and also to the newspaper employees’ benevolent funds. One third of the residue of the estate, a British official wireless message states, is left to the newspaper Press fund, one third to the Royal Free Hospital, one sixth to the Printers’ Pension Fund and one sixth between the Solicitors’ Benevolent Association and the Solicitors’ and Managing Clerks’ Association.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 97, 18 January 1935, Page 9
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192LORD RIDDELL’S WILL Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 97, 18 January 1935, Page 9
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