i|Thirteen Shillings a Week Rent Even his neighbours little thought} that the late Mr. James Parr, of Malvern Terrace, Higher Openshaw, Manchester, was the wealthy man the proved to be. He lived in a six-roomed house, rented at 18s. per week, in a street of ordinary artisan, dwellings. When his will was proved it was found that he had eft a fortune of £197,000.
Mr. Parr, who was 87, ws bachelor, and retired 25 years ago with a competence made from a Manchester bleaching. business. He continued to live in the 13s-a-week house he had built, together with! three others, with the first money, the made. He spent extremely little, invested wisely, and let his fortune: grow. Even when his income' amounted. to several thousands a. year he never spent more than £400.
His niece, Miss Hines, to. whom, Ihe left the income from £18,000 for stated that her uncle was a teetotaller and a non-smoker, spent illus time pottering about his Jgarden read a good deal, went 1 /St. Clement's Church, Openshaw, on. /Sundays, and had a couple of weeks Blackpool every year. His only indulgence was to hire a taxicab to }go into town, Among his bequests are £25,000] for the Cheetham Hospital and 'Library, £10,000 for the Manchester Warehousemen and Clerks' Orphan Schools, £6,000 for the St,: Mary's! Hospitals, £8,000 for Ancoats Hospi: tal, £2,000 each for the RSPCA. B jand the Church Pastoral Aid Society, £1,000 for Henshaw's Blind Asylum, jand £500 for the Hospital for Injcurables. There are also legacies to the Diocese of Manchester totally £10,000, and on the deaths of /Mr. Parr's relatives other sums will Fevert to some of the institutions already mentioned.
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