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Earl Farquhar, Court Official, banker and politician, left the British Royal Family the bulk of his fortune, valued at £400,000 (nearly...
...Earl was best man at the wedding of the Duke of Fife and the Princess Royal, King George's eldest sister; consequently he made their two daughters, Princess Arthur of Connaught* and Princess Maud his principal legatees...
Other bequests in the Royal Family are made to King George, Queen Mary, Queen Mother Alexandra, the Princess Royal, Princess Victoria, Prince George...
Outside the Royal Family bequests were made to the Earl of Derby, his racing partner; the Hon. William Lambton, famed trainer; Colonel James Forbes. Bequests of about $1,000 go to each of 50 of Earl Farquhar's "dear friends in the hope that they will accept them in the spirit I have made them, as the token of my affection, and that they will buy a remembrance of me." Provision is also made for other friends, his stepchildren, his sister's family and his servants...
...Royal S. Copeland, U. S. Senator from New York: " Speaking before the Advertising Club (of Manhattan), I recommended that the U. S. Government return to Monticello the 10,000-volume library of Thomas Jefferson, which it took him more than 50 years to collect and which he transferred to Congress for only $23,950 after the British burned the City of Washington in 1814 and destroyed the library there at that time...