DEATH OF A PAUPER BARONET.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7965, 16 February 1906, Page 7

DEATH OF A PAUPER BARONET.

* HIS SEARCH FOR MYTHICAL WEALTH. Sir William Kellet, Bart., who was lately an inmate of the Totnes "Workhouse, has died in St. Joseph's Roman Catholic home at Plymouth, after a paralytic seizure. Although only 57 years of age, prolonged illness has turned his beard and hair quite white. He spent his early years school teaching, and at one time kept a small school in Romsey, but his income never totalled more than £l2O or £l5O a year. -He was at one time a musical tutor, bat in this capacity he never made more than sufficient to provide for his immediate necessities. In 1886 he heard of the death of his first conein, and claimed the barouetoy. describing bis experiences shortly "before his death he said:—"l knew that all the property of the family "was in Melbourne, where my cousin Jiad died, and there were rumours that I should inherit a fabulous sum. -Ab soon as I could I went out to Australia, but soon discovered that the stories about the great fortune were not true. My cousin had an. estate and house property worth £IOO,OOO, but I learnt from hia solicitors that the whole of the property was bo heavily mortgaged that I could never expeot to get an income from it. t "1 returned from London with my •title, but nothing whatever to support it." Sir William Kellet was a nephew of the first baronet and first con3f n of the second, whom he succeeded; in 1886.