“WORLD’S CHAMPION BEGGAR”
Every fifth year since 1896 Lord Knutsford, who has just passed his 74th birthday, has made an appeal for funds for the London Hospital, and in 30 years he has succeeded in raising nearly £500,000.
11‘. Lord Knutsford lives to be a centenai‘ian we may see him achieving the truly remarkable record of raising this figure to the million. He is, among other things, a, clever conjurer. A professional once offered him ten pounds to act as his deputy at a. party given by Lord Rothschild.
“I ha§re dftén wished I had accepted, but I was afraid of meeting someone I knew,” Lord Knutsford says.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 720, 20 July 1929, Page 11
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