FORTUNES FOR SERVANTS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 193, 21 July 1916, Page 3 (Supplement)

FORTUNES FOR SERVANTS.

Tlv recent legacy of C 20.000 to her liiaid by the Dowager Countess of Wilton is not by any mor.Us the biggest sum 'ell to a servant, even in leivnt years. In Mill, for example, a Ruckingliamsliir<> lady, Mrs Anna Pilgrim, left lier entire fortune, over £IOO,OOO to lier coachman. while in 1006 a Miss Cohen left lier ex-footman a sum of t(50,(.K)0. One of the most curious bequests was that made by the late Mr Alexander l-'lemonir, a meniher of tho famous firm of William Haird, the Scottish ironmasters. When he died in H'llfl lie left a <lllll of 1" 10,000 to a Scottish piper who had while:! away the millionaire's hours of illness by playing the bagpipes in his bedroom. Perhaps the most generous bequest of an ."niployer to a servant was thai of the wealthy 'London architect, \'r (Irunnor. When he died he IMt the wiio'e of liis business, wort.i some CiJflO.OOft, :rrs a going concern, to his assistant. Mr Pelly.