SHY MILLIONAIRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 39, 9 November 1937, Page 13

SHY MILLIONAIRE

Does Good by Stealth ANNUAL INCOME, £50.000

3hy, 27-year-old Sir John Elierman, son of the multi-mUlionairo shipown^-', Britaln's rjchest young man, with an annnal income of mora than £500.000, has found » eareer. Ever since the first Sir John EIlerman died four years ago, hjs son, who inherited the family motto, "Loyal unto death," and a fortuue which has not yet been fully e«t*> mated, has shrunk from mjxlng with hie fellow men under his miUionair© identity, Thfe family shipping interests have not claimed him, H© goes seldom to the EUerman dffices in Moorgate, near the Bank of England. He has devoted himeelf to doing good by stealth. He hae beeome eecretly a great philanthropist. Living on about £2000 a year, he has devoted himself to helping people who need help. His craving for priracy is as great as ever, If you called at Airth Lodge, near Sunningdale, Sir John's only permanent home, you would find a recently built 6ft wall, etudded with broken glass. Behind this wall Sir J hn EUerman lives happUy with his beautiful young wife and tbeir animal pets. Their estate is a sanctuary for birds and other wild iife. About once a month Sir John and Lady Ellerman visit the zoo, The gatekeeper at Airth lodge still denies that Sir John Ellerman is his master. He has been doing so to all callers for three years. "We don't know Sir John here," he repeate with a sssile. «"Those are my instructlons." "