ABSTRACT
THE failure in his last decade to maintain his previous record of financial success was clear when Arthur Sullivan’s estate was valued on 15 January 1901 at the gross figure of £54,527 10s. 8d. (personal estate £32,193 10s. 5d.) – the possessions of a man ‘comfortably off rather than rich. The gross figure was resworn in December 1902 at £56,536 13s. iod. He had not modified his habits of gambling or his well-to-do way of life; the mania for continental travel was unabated even at a time when (as in 1896) he was paying rent on a summer home in England in addition to maintaining his London flat. Carte was more prudent: although he had undergone his own share of financial reversals, he would leave £240,000 Gilbert would leave £120,000.
