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Richest
man
is getting
IR John Ellerman.
Britain's richest man, By
is growing richer.
That is the impression BERNARD
in
Riven by documents filed away
the vaults of London's Bush House, where details of the ownership of British companies, large and small, are kept.
IC that impression is right it marks down this shy, studious, 40-year-oki millionaire as a present day. phenomenon.
For most of Britain's very wealthy men are growing pourer. They are forced by crippling taxation to live on capital if they want to maintaiu ા millionaire's customary standard of living
But nut, apparently, Sir John. Although his father had an income reaching £1,000,000 a year, the son never developed extravagant tustes.
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Sir John Ellerman impression from the only picture-taken during his honeymoon-which ho has
allowed
bo published.
CVCT
He has always preferred the quiet life. And so his capital has continued grow, aided by shrewd and ment far-sighted investment.
£100,000 UP
LATEST returns of Eller
man Lines, king-pin of the shipping side of the Ellerman empire, show that Sir John's holding of the company's Deferred stock- in his own
kume
to
Lesser lights in this constella- tion
of wealth include invest- and trusts, breweries,
newspapers.
London Express Service
in Britain
richer
remained such
solitary, how-but he kept his address retiring figure that he was often out of the telephone book and unrecognized by people who made ao mention of it in his six. worked for him.
Hine Tatry in Who's Who.
The first Sir John wes for
WHAT'S GOING ON
by EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE
LONDON.
rhequer, un the project was
COLOURFUL figure dropped,
was missed during the It is sald
tuke
I
that Mr Anthony
Arst three days of the Edrn, National Gallery trustee, Epson meeting-71-year-old ried to smooth the matter out, Lady Sybil Grant, elder sister of senior atoward Lord Rosebery.
But this talented member of in distinguished family rose fram
her tick-bed to walch brother's horse fun in The Big
Race.
It is certain that she was welcomed by the poorer people
on the Downs as well as by the rich in the enclosure. For Lady Sybil is a friend of the Ripsies, for whom she opened a 17-nere field when other ground bad been closed to them. She is herself a licensed hawker.
advantage of the proffered generosity, and save the pictures for the nation for all time,
His efforts were unavailing. Now the treasures nil away Atlantic.
We may crown the wonder, ruefully, whether they will ever relura.
Paying guests-|||
Talkings At Longleat, home of the Marquis and Marchloucas of Balt, are falling of this year. In 1946, 23,000 £2,875 between
people pall April 10:
When Derby weeks caine June 6, round, this RETJET DUS Indy,
The same period for 1930 will having seen to her poor friends. show that profits are almost moved in the company of her halved.
peers.
Generally she
her Why the slump, when t husband, General Sir Charles Blenheim Palace and Warwick Grant, caterfal ព brilliant Castle business is boomlug? house party at their Epsom
new~
home, but a house party with a Imely Bath
says that difference, for they invite only comers to the business-such as men for the big race meeting. the Duke of Marlborough-are Sir Charles and Lady Sybil taking away customers. And Grant have been 1 this year, the points out that the local There can be few people with people have all had a look now, so many and such väried friends will not want to go round again. to wish them a quick recovery.
Gift horse
Some of the finest pletures in the National Gallery have gone to Washington. They are those tent, since 1938, by Mr Calousic Sarkis Gulbenklan 01-year-old
and one of Un
And it is said that even today many years mided over ell magnate, there are Ellermann workers whe investments by the late Sir Miles world's richest men. ramnot describe what their Mattinson, regarded as the City's employer tooks like.
most gifted Investment trust
The heir to the El nom expert. millions wha born 03) De- cember 21, 1909, it no picture of him was published until after hir father's death in 1933.
There are many stories about this fabulous man who, though he owned a great house in Paris, meals, slept used it only for
at the Ritz ways in a sulte
And the father raw to it that the son should be equally well
Hotel. advised. The succe of the Ellerman Investment policy is
The story of his dealings with shown in the fact that one of the National Gallery has never His privacy was strictly arded. He was taken away the trusts formed by the father been fully told. It was his plan from Malvern College and pul dividend of 71 percent.
in 1914 is now paying an annual | to endow the Gallery with £400,000. At the same time he build a new wing But young Sir John's interests offered tu
pictures should are not confined to big com- where his own
tran to enrich the national manies. He also helps to a a There is no record of the £5,000 concern
anvellection. known having much interest in sport, or Kensington Builders, Idei, yachts, or fast ears, or any of the other recreations often favoured by rich men's NORR,
in charge of private tutors to profeet him apalned any possible annoyance.
What was the Government And that company shows reaction to his offer! It was to its latest accounts a protit of encumber Mr Culbenkian with
£501 5%. 11.-small beer for a
red tape.
He was burned am But he developed a keen man worth possibly £40,000,000. worried by Sir Kingsley Wood, the Ex- then Chancellor of
interest in acting, and sometimes staged in his own private theatre pantomimes and plays which he himself wrote.
Some months after the first Sir John died, leaving £36,083,000, Ellerman married Esther de Sala, a 23-year-old, raven-haired girl who he had known since boyhood.
The wedding took place in the utmost secrecy at Chertsey
Sir John, through a nominee, (Surrey) Register Office. And is the largest individual share the couple drove off to Easi- olier in Odhams Press. That bourne to live in a six-roomed company has recently increased villa in a terrace of working its dividend
and the Ellerman class houses. accordingly shows a holding further substantial capital proft. John was the big lure in n Aut just before the war Sir traction
which resulted in
in the
A SECRET
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Express AETVICE),
of the
I pro-
Perhaps The lifting petrol ration will help. phesy that touring the stately homes of England may now be rome more popular than the old- fashioned tour of the cathedrals. Fiesta
A friend, Just back from hadrid, tells me of the week of gairty which annually follows the Felival of San Isidro. Here is what he saw.
Every night there was dancing in the main squary until tour or five o'clock in the morning. Two military bands played jazz. rumbas Jitte A Mexican entry an Billight enthusicals included three scum: Erudithraen, accom- nied by their equally €11- them in the wives. Their names: The Marquis of Lansdowne, Mr ichael Astor, M.P., and Major Tony Murray-Smilli.
Ticket touts ask £6 for a 125. the best at en days when matadors are fighting
dance called the
---(London
Express Serukaj
In the secret places
of the
the heart
IE eight-year-old invalid giri lay on the X-ray table in Guy's Hospital, London, drowsing under the influence of a pain-killing drug. Her heart was malformed that she had never been strong enough to walk more than 25 yards.
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they saw the pressure reading slump they realised there was a Accond serious defect-the vessel was not wide enough. A check of the oxygen-content of their blood
this Famples confirmed diagnosis.
Her
NAREFULLY the doctor with. drew the tube. The child, un- harmed by her 90-minuta ordeal, could now be passed on to the surgeons with confidence. parenta could be told that opera- tion offered a good chance of as healthy making her almost
children. Such behind-the-scenes stories and active an other
human service of painstaking underlie many of the spectacular heart operations now being per- formed at Guy's Hospital.
The "blue-baby" operation might give surgeons him becoming the predominant HERE Sir Jolm and his bride her near-normal life. But the
spent quiet, happy, and were unable to determine exactly what shareholder in Illustrated News economical days, with the hus
To operate with- was wrong in her case. of the Sphere, papers, owners name, the Tatler, atal other publien- nannel trousers,
band gohig around in rey out this knowledge might be fatal.
pullover, andl some in conjunction with tions.
Jacket.
Sustaining the child's ment recorded the pressure in "three others"-has risen 1rpret recently he bought
confidence with quiet talk side the heart-chamber. Then But soon as their identity Duity by £100,000 over the past 153,000 shares
a white-mall sample of blood Mirror and a smaller number in was discovered they took train about her dolls,
drawn through the tube for two years.
11 sister journal,
the Sunday tu Scotland.
doctor made smocked
Analysis. It was at Eastbourne later that small cut in a vein near her That brings
Ellerman Pictorial. The
Slowly the tube was eased There is
Ellerman started on his massive holding to £24,000.
the He slipped three-volume work called "The elbow.
further into the heart-through Families and Genera of Living rounded end of a yard-long the first set of valves and into for the work are Dr HERBERT Rodents." It took
The HOLLING and Dr GEORGE second ten flexible tube into the vein. the
the sectors could see the exploring ALBERT ZAK. Backed by the Then, having checked instruments attached to the touching the partition which Medient Research Council they divides the normal heart into have developed methods of using tube, he completely separate right and the heart-probe so that surgeon. other end of the
left halves.
enn determine more precisely nodded to his colleague.
what types of repairs are needed The lights
out. The
before they operate. hummed into On is green-glowing screen the pulsating
so stock market quotation, but CITY THINKS...
its value must run into several milións.
For Ellerman Lines own
closest associates.
him
years to complete and
1.380 pages.
ran tu ships, totalling 640,000 tons, and W add up to? That is a secret WHAT does alt this wealth have another 16 in course of known only to Sir John and his in wife, a gifted painter. Quilalog.
helped him with the lustra The company's total assets are
She also But in the City it is estimated tions for this book.
of exhibition close on £30,000,000, and for
the £18,000,000 everal years the dividend on that
which ranged from his paintings by "Ellen de Streuve X-ray machine the Deferred stock has been ten Ellerman inherited
i11 a Kenston High Street art action.
klass father in 1933 must at least have shop. percent free of tax.
been doubled, possibly nearly tiebled.
IN WEST END
011
exhibition was at once closed.
went
But when a newspaper dis-hadow of the girl's heart came covered that Ellen de Streuve into focus. Elterman inherited more than was in fact Lady Ellerman the a vast fortune from his father. side of the far le inherited also his father's ranging Ellerman Interests deep-seated reserve, his careful covers property, most of it in ness in spending, his capacity for and around London's West End. Intense concentration on what
These assets are concentrated ever task was in hand.
ANOTHER
chamber.
Suddenly they saw proot of their suspicions. The tube had passed clean through the part!- tion by way of u gap which had
been there since the child was
born.
Because of this gap much or returning to
The two men most responsible
ISING the technique on more than 70 people born with they have malformed hearts
a dozen accurately diagnosed
when other different defects The passion for secrecy was TILL speaking quietly to the the impure blood
child, the doctor inched the the heart was being punsped
methods failed. carried an stage further when the
Holling's and Zak's achieve- couple went to live at an un-tube into her arm until the man back round the body with no
Sun watching the X-ray screen gave exygen restored to it. Hence the ments are typical of the in- pretentious ninudnie. For there Ellermana signal. The sharp shadow of girl's blue pa and checks; and
genious, and often courageous the tube's tip could be seen just the crippling breathlessnesss. research almed nt relieving in the Ellermun Property Trust, Old Sir John; who was born Hved as "Mr Fountains."
While the child still chattered suffering which goes on quielly Shortly before the war entering the first chamber of the and here, too, Sir John's per- in Hull, started his business life
house in heart.
sleepily, the doctors twisted the every day in British hospitals. sonal holding is shown to have as an accountant's clerk.
Ellerman bought a
Gardens- The doctor turned a small tube until it entered the main increased substantially since Even after he had become a Kensington Paince
"Millionaire' tup.
an instru- vessel leading to the lungs. As Automatically he often known as prosperous local shipowner 1047.
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