Viv Nicholson won a fortune in the early 1960's on the British football pools, and many years later became a Witness.
UK Big Money Winner Who Became Witness, Dies
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St George of England
£152,000 was a lot of money in 1961.
Wouldn't buy a terraced house in the South now.
George
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88JM
I've heard a few public talks with her life story given as a warning example about materialism.
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Phizzy
There was a musical in the West End called "Spend Spend Spend" based on her life just after winning the big money, if memory serves.
I think by all accounts she became a "good" JW from their point of view.
She wasted a fortune, and in the end wasted her life it seems.
Sad.