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BERNARD HARRIS
INVESTIGATION
TIE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, ` DECEMBER 7, 1957.
Fow of the folders of the most famous ŋamas. In Britain are now among the most wealthy. There are no Bedfords, no Devonshires, no Portmans, no Dorbys in the top ten-high taxation and doath duties have seen to that.
Who are the richest
HE Americans have been busy drawing up
THE
A list of their richest citizens. It arouses And there is no doubt that enormous interest. many folk Britain.
would like to see a similar list for But, unlike its American counterpart, Somerset House will not play.
in
This home of fintuicial HOCTO18 as tight-lipped about the affairs of Bri- tain's rich men and women as it is of the £10-a-week clerk.
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lllionaires. All will actrit 4 unnamed that the r people in Britain with un
of 21100,000 a year эг
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For want of htly dela. - tɔn this group has come to be garded as composting Britains mafilonaire class
No help
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ECRECY is carried so far that
11% single Somerset House Lould give v. ut the 40 names oven d were allowed to do s
So, umded
Fic venue,
L'
huzardous Lack of
The top 10.
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in Britain?
was Pearson who built the live hugge Juanch under the Identifying rivers of New York e bull ducks harbours. rail wayn al
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Wh t pioneer of the internal somad odk Industry.
great
over
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Halipowning father had un incarne approaching £1,000,000 But the son never uyeur, developed extra vugant tastes For him there were no fast cura, nu yachts, no fatehomes. was more interested in the story +uders and rodents.
Nobody his sought 50 iduously as this 45-year-old ata kep out of the limelight
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muil- TUAL
they branched cut into order business and stores has built them a second — sond: even larger-furtunto.
Today I imate that the brothers
etween ure worth 1m about £25,000,000. Whlcia shows whul you can do wih; £900 if you have the right ideu.
Soon after his mur-A hr lived for a Ume at a small house in Suningdale as
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START with #4-your-ul LORD HOWARD DE WAL- DEN. Heres as a man of ancient
Today his grandson's anonse inherited lineage
interests in Binance and industry who sack has indied Bub- are concentrated in the Cowd- wealth
IL Frutil
con's ol The to bry prudent ray auritially
public works contraclin Aren management
of S Poamon and Sotu. Th His father reckoned to be
Lancarde, the powerful £20,000,000-was known bastion wowth as the "Hoctors' landlord.** For City bunker. Saunders-Roe, the
thren,
among Is Jus vusi Londen estates include aireraf all the odd numbers In Harkay atellites.
And The capital of the trust and Suc
most of the
£1,000. Hel Bumbers
classic example of a £1,000 dog Lord Howard de Walden
tail af untold controls
Blood-looking, wagging streamlined ships of the South millions
Samme of American Sara Lane the bar traces of his wife's the slast despite the loss of an
Lued arm,
N also ranks hik handwerk For
A drewn De fritain's landowners ck-rator wed awn touch in seft pastel shades investor,
"roreful" in the spending of his the cablas
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the third rich man in my list, the shy, studious SIR JOHN ELLERMAN,
ALL IN A DOCTOR'S DAY by CEDRIC CARNE
MIGRAINE?
DON'T GIVE UP
IKE Peeping Toms, astronomers stare through telescopes at the stars. Sputniks circle round the world while, at night, many unable to sleep close their ey ex und
It seems fantastic that man may soon know more about the count bleeps.
tains of the mom than about the common cold.
"HOT
migraine
chell said.
Mrs Mi can no more describe verbally velves
Ban they could the odour of bility." ihrysanthemums,”
It to likely that multin Great Britain suffer from these periodic sirk headnees,"
yest
cestors have still to unravel the tal mystery of Nevertheless, 11 would be quilte assume that migrain- Wrong l ous patients can't be helped.
He dawn in a 1
dark premoni
Joom when I have A
tion of migraine coming." Mitchell said.
Mr!
EMOTIONAL TENSION
unecessary
moin-
£18,000,000 F inherited fron his father in 1933. The Ellerinas Shipping interests and vestments have his properly prospered so mightily since the war that his fortune today muy bu close to £50,000,00
NOW for another shy charuc-
this time though
30 known
every
1er.
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stores
FAST-GROWING chain also pule Hll SMMON MARKS in my lut. It all began with his father more than 101 years ago. But I is Sir Simon's, genius which has built it inte a pallonwide tuxiness ringing|
£2,500,000 up sales of about overy week.
Missing names
TINE
place
men, so far. Last 1 专题 woman LADY
NEAFIELD.
k
A countess in her own right,
of the succeeded her father in 1DIS
ol the
nine. Au age debutante she was said to bear an “uncanny resemblance, tol Queen Victoria In her youth.
She owns Castle Grant In Inverness-shire, has two othir Scottish homes, and
445 cierna-goer--LORD BANK.
The fall financial details how this
Methodist ardenit bought his WLY late Show Blasi.net have FLECT been But it is believed he revealed. pul around £1,700,000 into the
and Gaurnon etreults.
hikm dives
mustery of users worth £72,000,000 today
Add in the further millions he owns in the family Hour colossusland. Rank must take
respons!-
follows that the cure of migraine depends upors taking The patient canalise 15k= nervous energy, in trying to ruake them see that some things matter more than others, that certain problems have priorly over others
should be made This
Again many do not ket a pal at all. They do not even Fuller frown nation. As a result they don't roullen their bead
of the migran to realise that they don't have les "arc
to be the fastest typist in the Doctors do know
office. thet pain in latrine is the of the
the arterica In
kscomming temporarily and stavetchex.
variety.
SENSITIVE TO SOUNDS People have different warning signals. Some have lingling in
Sane, especially t bands. the sc-native to sourth, may A distant clock Hormally
Others have
The gesult hend wider
But is the arterles
<lo
Mr Mitchell 10 at" hear quizzed me- clong which
The who blush de so under Fa tional would be inaudible The characteristi
graine
brain it is as if they aois and ashes and zigzags of
Blushin, Faridional tensions often Thats in their Rekt of vision
foggers or
The migraine, but wit
business We used
heget- exculae uffers a sek
his acher robengke has indigesom in-
many like you." 1
Mas M.-, must then
footing They remonition
Docker Pate will to unraker 120
mpster ut atprei
J
turki Mirain when
Meel is at Trymery.
MEDICINES CAN HELP
high place among Britain's
richest mon
你
estates
this!
covering 800 sejuure miles. You may be surprised none of the most famous name among Britain's landed aristo-| eracy rates among the richest in the land no Derbys,, nol Devonshires, no Portmans, አር
NOR an there be much doubt Beafords.
about the ibility af
LORD IVEAGH, the gay 83 --
But high taxation and heavy year-old head of the Cuinness death duties have produced a inheritance steadily dwindling clan.
Iveagh was given £3,000,000 in such familles. by his father at the age of 21
And
so it is with the great
Ard Ister ho shared in his tobacco, whisky, sewing coilon, father's £13,500,000 fortune
mustard families
which He has much increased those were prolife producers seillions for under his control millionaires in the old days. the family's
Today
the best chances of famous stout business has reached new peaks making millions soens to lie in of prosperity.
shipping or hire njivchase or Etore trading or in becoming a business "take-over" merchant. NOW from a
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massive fortune based on #1out to another based on oil.
Marcus It was in 1897 that Samuel founded the Shell Transport and Trading Com- pany which with its Dutch part- ner now ranks as one of tho
Men are luckier thas; women. After the age of 35 their mig-eight most powerful oil groups
in the world. ruine
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arc
attacks
generally fade
"Women also tenu to grow out of their attacks in time," I Nachd.
meanwhile apart -But from getting al the pool cause, at preventing the attacks, there! medicines which are
In the relief of mig
Ergotamine, for
drug that in three out
migraine four cases stops the
Needless
valuable raine'
On the other hand there is attack. magrat na nas temporazaent." I should nnly be taken prizel cat E. "Such people are
L
medtaget
though
sensitive.
doctor's supervision.
Today the fondly interests in Shell are represented by bis grandson, the third VISCOUNT BEARSTED. He is also important City banker. Iron spoon
This stage you may com- plain that all the men I have Isted started with the advan-
AT
15 of
I
may under
it
A
As for prevention, doctors advocate
the use
of
one
often lee fussy and They el to dislike bright endocrine extrnets, while lights. jarring noise even colleague of mine och ly believe draughts range than most Jule
parna
"Often They waste
They take ATUSTILS
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Apr
The-
the value of imaversing the in head in cold water.
"He sounds
Mitchell sald.
hofiend," Mes
taga of a millionaire father
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Are there then among the top
10, you may ask, none who have
bill their millions unaided?
Certainly there are two – the
ས brothers JOHN MOOKES and CECIL MOORES
They hand £300 between them when they started the 1-2-X of tie fandball pools
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