Sir Harry Oakes, 1st Baronet (23 December 1874 - 7 July 1943) was a British gold mine owner, entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist. He earned his fortune in Canada and moved to the Bahamas in the 1930s for tax purposes. Though American by birth, he became a British citizen and was granted the hereditary title of baronet in 1939. The sensational story of Sir Harry Oakes's brutal killing had made world headlines. Even a glimpse of a family member merited a mention in the press. Harry Oakes That morning Lady Oakes had buried her husband of 20 years in a simple ceremony near his birthplace in Sangerville, Maine.
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Alfred de Marigny (29 March 1910 - 28 January 1998) was a French Mauritian acquitted of the murder of his father-in-law, Sir Harry Oakes . Biography Marie Alfred Fouquereaux de Marigny, [1] whose real name was Alfred Fouquereaux, "de Marigny" being his mother's name, was born on 29 March 1910, in Mauritius to a well-off French family. For Sir Harry Oakes, his unsolved murder is one for the storybooks. It's like a supersized game of Clue, where every suspect is as extravagant as the next, and each with an equally extravagant motive that ties into past lives and hidden secrets. There are links to the British nobility, the American mob scene, and Nazi sympathizers. American-born Sir Harry Oakes had made his fortune in the gold mines of Canada before moving to the tax haven of the Bahamas. In July 1943, in the middle of. Sir Harry Oakes was a multimillionaire, the richest man in the Bahamas. He had made his fortune with gold mines he'd discovered in Canada and was seeking to protect it by living in a tax haven..
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SIR HARRY OAKES and his family legacies a history Harry and Eunice Oakes Harry Oakes was born in Sangerville, Maine on December 23rd 1874. His parents were William Pitt Oakes, a lawyer/surveyor and Nancy (Lewis) Oakes, a teacher. Harry was one of two boys and two girls. Harry was well educated. Sir Harry Oakes-Maine native, adventurer, gold prospector, philanthropist, British baronet, and one of the wealthiest men of his time-had been found brutally slain in his bedroom at Westbourne, the mansion on his rambling Bahamas estate. Along with the Swedish industrialist Axel Wenner-Gren, who purchased significant amounts of real estate on Hog Island (Paradise Island), American born Sir Harry Oakes was one of the most important investors in The Bahamas during the 1930s. Seventy-five years ago this week, Sir Harry Oakes was found dead in his bed in Nassau. He'd been bludgeoned and set afire. The defendant: the man's son-in-law, a society dandy so elevated he had.
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1874 - 1943 Harry Oakes was born in Sangerville, Maine on December 23rd 1874. Harry was well educated. He attended Foxcroft Academy, Bowdoin College and Syracuse Medical School. In 1896, when he was 22 years old, Harry left medical school to take up the career of prospector in Klondike, Yukon. He received a baronetcy in 1939 for his philanthropy in England. Eccentric, unpopular in Canada and exuding the manner and dress of the mining frontier, Oakes died at his home - victim of an unsolved murder. His estate in NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario, forms the basis of that city's scenic parks.
Sir Harry Oakes, left, and his friend the Duke of Windsor, the former King Edward VIII of England. (Museum of Northern History via BDN) -- Harry Oakes started life as a shy, small town kid. The murder of Sir Harry Oakes laid bare the rotten underbelly of Nassau and it was brutally ugly. It was so ugly, that it engulfed two more victims who were murdered just as brutally as Oakes had been. Betty Renner and Dorothy Macksey were killed as viciously as Harry Oakes. Harold G. Christie was born 31st May 1896.
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The richest man in the Bahamas (if not the whole Empire) was Sir Harry Oakes, who earned his fortune from gold prospecting and spent the rest of his life avoiding the tax man. He was found murdered in the morning of 8 July 1943, having been killed sometime after midnight during a summer thunderstorm. His body, bearing four lethal head wounds. Sir Harry Oakes, 68, born and raised in Maine, possessor of a Canadian gold-mine fortune and a British title, had been bludgeoned to death in the bedroom of Westbourne, his bougainvillea-adorned Nassau estate. From the looks of the crime scene, he'd also been set on fire. The walls bore bloodstains.
