MADE POOR BY GIFTS

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 452, 21 June 1937, Page 5

MADE POOR BY GIFTS

THE POET DRINKWATER Generosity Not Known Publicly London, May 8. Despite his- fame and many works, Mr. John Drinkwa-ter, the poet, left £1577 16s 6d, but with net personalty nil. This was revealed in the details of his will published yesterday. Mr. Felix Aylmer, the actor, who was a very close friend of Mr. Drinkwater, told a “Daily Mail” . reporter that John Drink water was >a very generous man, but he was not known as such publicly. His secretary, Winifred Edith Gwyn Jeffreys,, and his publisher, Mr. Frank Sidgwick, were each left £5O, while the residue of his estate was left to his wife, Miss Daisy Kennedy, the violinist. Compared with other famous literary men, Mr. Drinkwater’s estate wae not large. Rudyard Kipling left £155,000, while other literary wills include: Hall Caine, Stanley Weyman, £100,000; Charles Dickens, £93,000; Thomas Hardy, £91,000; John Galsworthy, £88,000; George Moore, £75,000; Ajnthony Trollope, £70,0j)0; Rider Haggard, £61,Q00; D. H. Lawrence, £2500; and Sir William Watson (the last of the Victorian poets), £733.