BERNHARD BARON’S DEATH

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 5 August 1929, Page 5

BERNHARD BARON’S DEATH

BODY TO BE CREMATED ESTATE VALUED AT FIVE MILLIONS (United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright) ' (Received sth August, 9.5 a.m.) LONDON, 4th August. The tobacco millionaire, Bernhard Barou, made a characteristic will. About a i score of employees and personal servants received 100 to 500 Carreras shares each, at present worth over £l3. One housemaid gets 50 shares.' The will appoints five executors and trustees _ including his son Louis and Lord Reading, who gets £SOOO. The will directs the cremation of the body, the ashes .to- be deposited in the Jewish Synagogue at Willesden with a small Union Jack and Stars and Stripes. The factory is to be closed on funeral day to enable employees “whom I really loved” to attend the funeral. He hopes they will all attend, but wishes the simplest, ceremony.. In order .to avoid law suits the will provides that if the executors and trustees disagree, his son’s views shall be final and decisive.

All' legacies are to be paid free of death duty. When all bequests are paid 70 per cent, goes to members of the family in trust in named proportions. Thirty per cent, becomes a charity trust. Mr Baron allots £60,000 to certain Jewish charities. The distribution of the remainder is left to the discretion of the trustees in th.e proportion of onefifth to Jewish charities and four-fifths to Ghristian. "I loved my Christian brethren as much as the Jewish," he said.i The solicitors estimate that Mr Baron was worth £5,000,000. The death duties will absorb £2,000,000. Thus' charities .will receive £1,000,000.