estates data

This page covers -

• writers
• artists
• composers
• performers
• publishers

It is a work in progress; information is being added progressively.

     writers

Richard Steele (1672-1729) £10,000

George Eliot (1819-1880) £45,000

George Meredith (1828-1909) £32,359

Samuel Clemens (1835-1910) US$471,136

William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911) £118,028

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) £95,428

Henry James (1843-1916) £8,961

Louisa Lawson (1848-1920) £629

Charles Garvice (1850–1920)

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) £22,850

Barbara Baynton (1857-1929) £160,621

Nat Gould (1857-1919) £7,797

George Morrison (1862–1920) £27,545

Arthur Morrison (1863–1945) £45,645

Mary Gilmore (1865-1962) £12,020

Christopher Brennan (1870-1932) £68

Seebohm Rowntree (1871-1954) £90,812

W Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) £98,307

Hugh McCrae (1876-1958) £133

Bede Dalley (1876-1935) £8,515

May Gibbs (1877-1969) £42,532

Miles Franklin (1879-1954) £8,922

Joan Riviere (1883–1962) £20,234

William Baylebridge (1883-1942) £18,158

Dorothea Mackellar (1885-1968) $1,580,000

E M Delafield (1890-1943) £11,548

F Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) US$10,000

Carola Oman (1897–1978) £177,165

Maurice Bowra (1898-1971) £113,212

Kenneth Slessor (1901-1971) $99,216

Eirene Hopkinson aka Antonia White (1899-1980) £6,884

Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) £20,068

Cyril Connolly (1903–1974) £41,989

AJP Taylor (1906-1990) £307,000

Elspeth Huxley (1907-1997) £670,948

Anthony Blunt (1907-1983) £862,521

David Campbell (1915-1979) $192,611

Rohan Rivett (1917-1977) $100,996

Philip Larkin (1922-1985) £297,787

Bernard Williams (1929-2003) £78,055

Bruce Chatwin (1940-1989) £584,388

Eric Blair aka George Orwell (1950) £10,000

Caroline Blackwood (1931-1996) £3,300,000

     artists

John Glover (1767-1849) £10,000

John Skinner Prout (1805-1876) £1,500

William Frith (1819-1909) £1,380

Julian Ashton (1851-1942) £4,343

John Russell (1858-1930 ) £41,973

John Longstaff (1861-1941) £4,631

Portia Geach (1873-1959) £66,328

Lionel Lindsay (1874-1961) £75,140

Hans Heysen (1877-1968) $195,882

George Bell (1878-1966) $194,175

Norman Lindsay (1879-1969) $65,698

Will Ashton (1881-1963) £25,195

Grace Cowley (1890-1979) $318,441

Godfrey Miller (1893-1964) £114,000

Francis Bacon (1909-1992) £11,370,244

     composers

Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900) £56,536

Hubert Parry (1848–1918) £31,127

Edward Elgar (1857–1934) £13,934

Hamish MacCunn (1868–1916) £140

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958) £28,520

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912) £800

Hamilton Harty (1879–1941) £6,865

Thomas Wood (1892-1950) £118,868

Eric Coates (1886–1957) £53,124

     performers and impresarios

George Coppin (1819-1906) £9,709

Ellen Ternan (1839-1914) £1,241

Adelina Patti (1843-1919) £116,337

James Cassius Williamson (1845 -1913) £193,010

Nellie Melba (1861-1931) £67,511

Clara Butt (1872-1936) £39,517

Henry Wood (1869-1944) £6,460

Peter Dawson (1882-1961) £1,555

Percy Grainger (1882-1961) US$208,293

Benno Moiseiwitsch (1890–1963) £13,559

Malcolm Sargent (1895-1967) £43,657

John Barbirolli (1899-1970) £36,307

Nicholai Polakovs aka Coco the Clown (1900-1974) £7,722

Fanny Cradock (1909–1994) £204,696

Jon Pertwee (1919-1996) £420,149

Ernie Wise (1925-1999) £503,299

Kenneth Williams (1926-1988) £538,379

Eric Morecambe (1926–1984) £517,205

Diana Dors (1931-1984) £250,167

Russell Harty (1934-1988) £430,887

John Entwistle (1944–2002) £4,923,969

Jacqueline Du Pré (1945–1987) £70,000

     publishers and managers

Herbert Ingram (1811-1860)  £90,000

David Syme (1827-1908) £880,000

John Norton (1858-1916) £140,331

Keith Murdoch (1885-1952) £400,000

Leonard Woolf (1880-1969) £157,732

Harold Macmillan (1894-1986) £51,114

Ezra Norton (1897-1967) $3,844,672

Allen Lane (1902-1970) £1,216,474

Frank Packer (1906-1974) $1,300,00

Paul Hamlyn (1926-2001) £366,402,436

Brian Epstein (1934-1967) £486,032




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