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harmful than dowers at Hitler. ■-Making a Fortune.AFORTUSE Of £2.174JIB has been left by the Into Mr. Robert Fleming «o**. of lIroeveii'*r square. W.. Joyce Omre. Xottlelied. near Henlev, and Dundee, the Scottish financier. ho rose to riches from a boy clerkship. lie began work a« a hoy of 13 in a Dundee oftic# a* a wage of £5 a!ear. At 21 he was promoted to a port as hook eeper to Ins firm, and he then began to take a keen interest in the t'nited Sutea as a field for investment. Ho joined the fi m of Baxter Brother*, of Dundee, the ••\ews-Chrontcle” state*, and in 1*70 he went to America on the firm’s basine*. and returned to Scotland filled with a determination to start an investment trust over here on new lines The incorporation of the Scottish-American Investment Trust in 1873 was the result. He founded in 1900 the I tanking firm of Robert Fleming and ( o of Crosby square. B.C. The death duties will be about£8T0',W0' -HNO-
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Melbourne Australasian
Melbourne, Victoria, AU
Sat, Oct 28, 1933
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