FOX FARMER'S WEALTH

Shannon News, 24 November 1925, Page 2

FOX FARMER'S WEALTH

JUOLW OF ENtiLlKll MAM OK. Through an unexpected legacy loft .» him at the death ot- his uncle, Colonel. Arthur G. Bluke, of Wooten Manor, Sussex, England, and Kilmeron Court, Forfarshire. Scotland, Captain Alfred ' T. Blake, D.F.C., and bar, A.F.C., M.M., and Belgian, Croix de Guerre, at present engaged in fox farming in Canada, is now Lord of the'Manor in England. But he must carry out Strange provisions set down in th e will before he claims the wealth, which amounts to 680,000 dollars. The conditions are as follows:Visit his mother's birthplace at Umbalta, Indiana; visit the spot in South Africa where his father was killed in the Boer. War in 1901; remain in -Canada till November 20, 1927; after - that date, make his home at Wooten Manor, after having carried out the necessurv conditions; marry same time before January 1, 3 930; encourage the Sussex fox hunt to the best of his ability and be a member of same. The estate/ consist of the two

manor h ousts mentioned, all the farms and wooded land pertaining thereto and £78,000 in cash and liquid securities. • The two landed estates are valued at £OO,OOO. Captain Blake is not the only one. of his immediate family to benefit by the strange will. His mother and sister also receive £15,000. According to a letter received from his uncle's solicitors, £30,000 of.thc securities ar e Invested in an Ontario pulp and paper mill. Captain Blake was educated as a physician, but after an adventurous military career in which he won many decorations, he became disgusted with the life in the Old Country after the war and moved to Canada. He is president of a silver fox farm at Wil. kie, and holds the degree of Bachelor of Science. Wilkie is a small town west, of Saskatoon, on the Canadian Pacific Railroad.

The heir served four years*in the Great War with the Royal Field Artillery and Royal Flying Corps. He eonvs of a military family well-known in the Old.. Country, while the maker )of th e will was prominent in English circles.