LONELY AMID WEALTH

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2339, 8 October 1921, Page 1

LONELY AMID WEALTH

SIR. E. CASSEL’S TRAGEDY,

GRIEF FOR LOST DAUGHTER

London, Sept. 23,

“You may have all the money in the world, yet lie a lonely, sorrowing man.” This remark was made by Sir Ernest Cassel —the great banker and philanthropist, who died on Thursday—shortly after the death of his beloved daughter some years ago.

“The light has gone out of my life,” he confessed. “I live in this beautiful house, which is furnished with all the luxury and wonders that, art could find, but I no longer value my millions or the pictures in my home. I have suit here for hours every night grieving for my daughter.” Sir Ernest Cassel’s daughter died at Bournemouth of consumption at the age of 30. He had given scores of thousands of pounds for inquiry into tuberculosis and cancer, but this money did not avail to save the one person in the world he most loved.

The specially built bungalow in which she died was completely removed and re-erected in his garden

at Moulton Paddocks, Newmarket. He would sit for hours in it meditating. No other was allowed to approach it. He sought happiness by devoting himself to his elder grand-daughter, -Edwina, a goddaughter to the late King Edward., who is expected to be his principal heiress.

Sir Ernest Cassel said there was nothing, even his greatest financial successes, in life equal to the love of a devoted wife, or the delight of a family of happy children. The things that were best and worth having money could not buy.