ERRAND BOY TO MILLIONAIRE
(British Official WireleaaJ
Scottish Philanthropist Left £1,039,976 BEQUEST TO EX-PREMIER
(Eeeeived 28, 1§.30 p,m.) 6 BIJGBY, Sept. 27. The personal estate of Sir Alexander Grant, the Scottish philanthropist who started life as an errand boy and finished as the head. qf a great firm of biscuit manufacturers, and who died in May, ha? been proved at £1,039,976. Hi? bequests include the placing of £40,000 iipou trust to pay an income to Mr, Eamsay MacDonald, who wa? a very old friend. The residue pf the estate is to accumulate for 10 years on trust for the benefit of the heir?, but in the event of their predecease reverts to tbe National Library pf Scotland..
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 4, 28 September 1937, Page 5
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117ERRAND BOY TO MILLIONAIRE Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 4, 28 September 1937, Page 5
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