Heir Hunters

Bazile | 23:42 Wed 18th Jul 2012 | Film, Media & TV

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On the programme , Wednesday morning 18/07/12 , there was an elderley gentleman who had left an estate worth one million pounds .

The programme featured a husband and wife - a lord and lady something , who were attempting to trace the gentleman's heirs .

Does anyone know whether or not they were successful ,and if so how many heirs were there ?

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nungate

Lord and Lady Teviot were the heir hunters, sadly they were unable to find any relatives for the gentleman. In fact because he'd not left a will and had no obvious family, the local authority were going to give him a pauper's funeral. Thankfully, his friends all rallied round and gave the chap a fitting send off.

dotty.

it's the cheviots i think, they've been doing that sort of research for decades. watch it on i player it is always on there.

dotty.

oh yeah teviot, i met them once at a G.O.O.N.S conference at bath university with miriam margoyles

Bazile

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Shame that - all that dosh going into the government's coffers

Didn't any of the big firms also have a go ?

Ann

Dotty - it doesn't seem to be on I-Player yet unless I'm looking in the wrong place. The latest one is from 13 July.

nungate

They might have tried when the estate first came up, the Teviots often chase down smaller estates that the bigger companies don't take up.
I suppose in some way estates going into the government coffers mean that the rest of us benefit in some way