WORTH £10,000,000 !
SIR GEO. WILLS’S ESTATE | (United P.A. — By Tele graph — Copyright) } f (Australian and N.k. Press Association) | (United Service) j Reed. 12.30 p.m. LONDON, Friday. j | The estate of Sir George Wills has I been provisionally sworn at • £10,000,000. Sir George was a former chairman | of the Imperial Tobacco Company, . aged 74. He belonged to the family j of millionaires, of whom, since Sir | George’s father died 10 years ago leav-. | ing a fortune of over £5,000,000 three j I members have died, and each of them I J left an estate of over £ 1,000,000. j In the aggregate their fortunes < totalled about £26,000,0C0, and in | | duties alone it is estimated that , | £10,000,000 has passed to the Treasury. ! Sir George was a generous supporter of charitable, educational and other institutions, to which he gave gifts I totalling £500,000, including £300,000: j to Bristol University.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 424, 4 August 1928, Page 1
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