Death
Barnato died at the London Clinic, Devonshire Place, on 27 July 1948, aged just 53, as a result of a thrombosis after an operation for cancer.
His funeral cortege was led by his Bentley 'Old Number One', which was covered with flowers and wreaths. He is buried at St Jude's Church in Englefield Green, Surrey, (grave 286, plot 25) next to his son-in-law Derek Walker (who had married his daughter Diana in 1944 and was killed in an aircraft crash in 1945). Estimates of his wealth at the time of his death were between £1.5 and 5m.
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