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"In case anything happens to me you'll find next wook's sermon.in my dosk. Don't forget to pay the organist. Miss Paowit will help you with the parish mag."

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.

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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

-London

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.

house at

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