This cutting is from the Daily Mirror dated 18th June 1927 and relates to the estate of the late Mr William Fox Tibbetts, a Sheffield Solicitor who left an estate valued at £1,522,687 which is nearly £67 million at todays prices. The death duties on the estate equate to between £22 million and £26 million at todays prices.
I hope Rachel from Accounts is not reading this as it may give her an idea which would not bode well for any of us.
As I had never heard of Mr William Fox Tibbetts and was fascinated to find out how and when he accumulated such wealth I put his name in a well known search engine and found this excellent article on Sheffielder,net written by David Poole
It certainly answered all my questions but at least this blog clarifies how much William left in total. A staggering amount for the time and yet he remains more or less unknown
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