PEER WILLS ESTATE TO HOUSEKEEPER

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 167, 2 August 1937, Page 7

PEER WILLS ESTATE TO HOUSEKEEPER

-Presa Assi

Pfoperty Valued at £107,351 but Heavily Mortgaged LIVED 0N £600 A YEAR

(By Telegraph-

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LONDON, Ang. 1. Lord Orm&thwaite, who died in March, left his entire property, valued at £107,351, equally to Mrs Kose Spaty, his former housekeeper and the wife o£ his former valet. and her sons, aged nine and 14 years. Mrs Spary says that Lord Ormathwaite was almost blind for two years. "We helped him in every way posaible, ' 1 she added. "He was very good to us and the godfather of our son.s, but wO were unaware that he was fich. He lived at the rate of £600 a year. "Queen Mary fegularly sent Lord Ormathwaite Christmas presents. Last year she visited him and found him sitting in an invalid chair; she tucked a gift of a waTm rug around him and chatted for an hour. ' ' M'r Spary, who is unemployed, does not Cxpeet that his wife and children wilt recfiive a farthing. He says that the estate is mortgaged to the hilt. Lord Ormathwaite wa& unlucky in his investments and lost a large snm Ofl the turf and at Monte Carlo. The faet that he left a mansion with twelve servants to live with them was prcof that he had no money, Mr Spary , thought.