Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1908 — British Crown £175,000 Richer. [ARTICLE]

British Crown £175,000 Richer.

As the late Capt George Lindsay Anthony Wilson, the Folkstone recluse, died without making a will, the whole of his fortuen goes to the British crown. Several persons in his service had expected handsome legacies. Capt. Wilson, who was the illegitimate son of Sir John Wilson, Bart., at one time commander of the forces in Ceylon, was a bachelor, and left no legal heirs. The estate reverting to the crown under this intestacy has been valued by the autnorities at £150,209. To this has to be added £25,663 left by Capt. Wilson’s father. Sir John Wilson died in 1856, but Capt? Wilson refused to touch a penny of it, with the result that the estate has remained for 49 years unadministered. Now the crown Inherits botlj fortunes. Says the London Chronicle: “It has very rarely happened that so large an estate as Capt. Wilson’s falls to the crown. Queen Victoria, during her long life, had only one or two as large. Although the aggregate amount which annually reverts to the crown in the case of persons dying Intestate, without known heirs, is considerable, it is chiefly made up of a number of very small estates, and there' are usually many claimants. Persons entitled to money are seldom far to seek when wanted, but the number of claimants of money who cannot show any title to it is very large indeed.”