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We've deffo met some of these men [assuming they're mostly men at that time!] over the years. Chief Justice to start with. Hugh Kennedy could certainly afford his suits and bowler hats on £4,000...

[https://flic.kr/p/2qNU1VM]
I'd imagine some others that eluded identification in this photo are listed?

In 2025, the relative price worth of £4000 0s 0d from 1932 is:
£390,000.00 using the retail price index
£324,000.00 using the GDP deflator
In 2025, the relative wage or income worth of £4000 0s 0d from 1932 is:
£1,040,000.00 using the average earnings
£1,940,000.00 using the per capita GDP
In 2025, the relative output worth of £4000 0s 0d from 1932 is:
£2,900,000.00 using the GDP

Via - www.measuringworth.com/index.php#

"A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.”
Oscar Wilde

Change the date to 2026 . . . Different names, different times, same ol' stuff.

CASSIDY PHOTOGRAPHY Yep

beachcomber australia £247,876.65 according to the Bank of England inflation calculator

Mentioned in Parliament: Hansard

man named Coetzee was, on the 24th of June last, tried at Dordrecht by a Military Court, composed of a Lieutenant-Colonel of the Royal Irish Regiment and a Colonial Major and Lieutenant, on a charge of murder and high treason; that the evidence disclosed that a Boer picket had been surprised by Colonel Scobell's column on the 6th of June, and that two men, of whom the prisoner was one, were found with rifles and ammunition in a neighbouring donga, from which the witness thought shots were being fired; and that on this evidence against Coetzee, and the evidence of another witness, he was certain the prisoners were the sons of a British subject, Coetzee was convicted and executed; and whether, in view of the feeling among our Dutch fellow-subjects caused by military executions of this kind, he will direct that captured Boer soldiers who are alleged to be British subjects shall be reserved for trial by the ordinary courts.

Lord Stanley's answer was basically "No".

Johannes Petrus Coetzee (1879 - 1901)

from - www.wikitree.com/wiki/Coetzee-634

Read All About It ...
Via Trove -
trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/82491804?searchTerm=Co...

There were consequences for non attendance

“COETZEE'S EXECUTION.
HC Deb 16 August 1901 vol 99 c1142 1142

§MR. LEAMY (Kildare, N.) I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War if he has yet received any official information to the effect that several of the leading inhabitants of Cradock have been deported for refusing to obey the order to attend the execution of Johannes Petrus Coetzee; and, if so, will he state by whose order was the deportation carried out.
LORD STANLEY No information has as yet reached the War Office”

api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1901/aug/16/co...

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