Wealth
Louis Huth was a Director of The London Assurance for Fire, Life and Marine Assurance, although that seems to have been in a non-executive capacity, and he remained a partner in the firm founded by his father, although he was hardly ever involved in it operations following the death of his father. Louis Huth was extremely wealthy, at his death in 1905 leaving an estate then valued at £341,000.
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