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RICH ENGLISH BOOKMAKERS Four Millionaires Top the List of Former Layers of the Odds. Joseph Pickersgill of Leeds, for many, years a well-known bookmaker, with whom the late King Edward used to make his bets, nt one time also a race horse owner, who died August 23, aged seventy years, left an estate now valued for probate at ,732,298. The late Mr. PickersgiUs fortune calls to mind fortunes left by other notable professional racing men. Usually those who have left large amounts are men who have retired from racing after a run of luck and have applied their energies and knowledge in other speculation and investments. The most notable cases are those of: George Herring, a generous benefactor of hospitals, left ,855,760. William Peech, who became a partner in Messrs. Steel, Peech and Tozer of the Phoenix Steel Works, Sheffield, and left ,668,495. Joseph Errington of Bnrnard Castle, 18,310. George Cooper of Chester, who died in harness on the Brighton race course, ,442,595. James OConnor, 1920.sh05,450. Walter Raleigh Spindler, 91,785. Henry William Ulph of Yarmouth, 75,305. Robert Shield, one time si partner with the late Mr. OConnor, 21,060. Thomas Charles Williams of Shrewsbury, "Parson Williams," 19,070. Robert Topping of Topping and Spindler, 15,040. Charles Hibbert of Nottingham. 17,490. London Sportsman.
