Word: ellerman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what he had expected. The tariff had proved to be a gold mine, bringing in ?17,000,000 more than anyone had estimated. General business improvement accounted for most of the rest. But what really brought the surplus to such pleasing plumpness was that no one thought Sir John Ellerman would die so soon...
...John Reeves Ellerman was one of the least publicized and richest men in the world. An impressive fellow with a great spade beard and a hawk nose, he owned and operated some half-dozen lines of steamers, besides great quantities of real estate and at one time a string of newspapers and a batch of London smart-charts. Living in an almost miserly simplicity, he was only a vague name to most Britons, despite his fat checks to British charities. His last charity occurred when he died in Dieppe last July, aged 71, leaving an estate...
Married. Sir John Reeves Ellerman, 23, son of the shipping, brewing, real estate and publishing tycoon of the same name who died last month leaving $75,000.000 and the longest will in British history ('TIME. July 24; Aug. 28); and Esther de Sola of Montreal; in London...
Left. By Sir John Reeves Ellerman, shipping, breweries, real estate tycoon, reputed wealthiest Englishman: ?17,000,000 (currently $75,160,000), in a will which disposes of his estate "so far as can at present be ascertained." Total value of his estate is expected to be about $140,000,000, of which the British Government will take one-half in death taxes. His will, longest in British history, bequeaths to employes who have served in his companies 14 years or more a month's salary plus 25 percent; to his widow $750,000 and a tax-free annuity...
Died. Sir John Reeves Ellerman, 71, shipping tycoon, reputed possessor of Great Britain's largest fortune (circa $140,000,000); in Dieppe, France. To his vast shipping enterprises he added real estate and publishing, at one time owned a string of newspapers and smartcharts, including London's Sphere, Sketch, Tatler. Hardly more than a name to the average Briton, he shunned publicity and public places, shooed away photographers, lived in a simplicity suggesting stinginess, occupied but one inch of space in Who's Who. He stealthily gave fat sums to charity, was irked when newshawks got wind...