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...John Reeves Ellerman might be mistaken for a wealthy dilettante. He acts in little plays with his own theater company, in his own private theater. He is fond of odd pets, which have included several porcupines and an elephant named Charlie. He has his own private orchestra, which plays for his rare but lavish parties. But young (38) Sir John is no lighthearted dabbler; he is deadly serious about three things...
...years Ellerman has been gnawing away at his life's work: an exhaustive source book called The Families and Genera of Living Rodents. Last week his longtime dream was nearing realization as he put the finishing touches on the third and final volume. The completed work is intended to do for rodent zoology what Samuel Johnson's dictionary did for the English language...
...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...