Sentence examples for considerable estates from inspiring English sources

He was educated at Cambridge and inherited his father's considerable estates at the age of 18.

The manuscript continues that in Ireland he acquired considerable estates in Galway and was knighted; although he was the principal man of his name there, his descendants were known not as MacLeods, but as MacElliots.

On the death of her father in 1887, she inherited a considerable estate.

At the outbreak of the Civil War, having shortly before been left a widow with a considerable estate, Wittenmyer devoted herself to relief work.

At the time of his marriage Hooker had no known financial means, and yet at his death he left a considerable estate.

More than any other person, Ragnar Sohlman is credited with saving the Nobel Prize after Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite and the blasting cap, shocked Sweden by leaving much of his considerable estate to endow prizes for excellence in science and literature and the cause of peace.

"As an organisation, we have quite a considerable estate and cover a wide geographical area.

He had no children, and his considerable estate will be divided among his immediate family.

Highly successful in his mercantile business, Will Hutchinson brought a considerable estate with him to New England.

I had a conversation with a man not long ago who has the unenviable task of sorting through his mother's considerable estate, deciding what to keep, what to sell and what to throw away.

Unite is a wealthy union, owning the Amalgamated Bank and considerable real estate assets, while the larger hotel employees' union has little in the way of financial assets.