The Crimean War nurse treated her siblings and assistant Arthur Hugh Clough to an estate worth £36,127 when she died in affluent Park Lane in 1910, worth about £3.5 million today.
Florence Nightingale, who is known for having saved lives during the Crimean War, had left property worth £3.5 million when she died, it has emerged.
The Crimean War nurse, who spent a life treating wounded soldiers, treated her siblings and assistant Arthur Hugh Clough to an estate worth £36,127 when she died in affluent Park Lane in 1910, worth about £3.5 million today, the Daily Mail reported.
Newly released records show that Pygmalion author George Bernard Shaw, who helped found the LSE, knew how to cope with finance and was sitting on a fortune worth £10.3 million today when he died in his Hertfordshire home aged 94 in 1950.
Beatrix Potter — the successful female novelist behind The Tale of Peter Rabbit, left £211,638, worth nearly £8 million today, to her husband William in 1943.
Ancestry.co.uk also revealed former Prime Minister Winston Churchill left £3,04,044, worth nearly £4.8 million now, to his wife Clementine in 1965 and founder of penicillin Alexander Fleming left a personal estate worth over £6,30,000 today to son Robert in 1955.
But Welsh poet Dylan Thomas faired the worst, as the known alcoholic left just £100 — worth £2,300 today — to his wife Caitlin following his death in New York in 1953. He was aged just 39.
TS Eliot, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, poet and playwright died of emphysema in 1965, with a personal estate totalling £1,05,272, over £1.6 million today.
“These new records give fascinating insight into the final estates of some of Britain’s most recognisable faces and reveal that money and fame did not always go hand in hand,” Ancestry.co.uk International Content Director Miriam Silverman said.
“They also provide a rich source of information for anybody interested in uncovering the finer details of their ancestor’s finances and exactly what, if anything, they decided to leave and to whom,” Silverman added.
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