RICH HEIRESS.
BRITISH FINANCIER’S DEATH. By Telegraph.—-Press Assn.—Copyright. London, Sept. 22. The death is announced of Sir Ernest Cassel, the financier. Received Sept. 23, 7.50 p.m. London, Sept. 23. A footman found Sir Ernest Cassel sitting at a writing desk with his head on the table, dead. He had been suffering from heart trouble for some time. His heiress is a pretty twenty-year-old grand-daughter. iEdwina, who will probably be the richest woman in Britain.
(•Sir Ernest Cassel was of German birth, but naturalised in England. He financed the great Assuan dam in Egypt, the Swedish railways and the Central ilx>ndon Tube Railway. He gave very generous donations for public purposes, including £200,000 for a consumptive sanatorium. During the war it was sought to exclude him from the Privy Council, but the courts decided that his appointment was regular, he being a naturalised British subject.)
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Taranaki Daily News, 24 September 1921, Page 5
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