The widow of a top banker who is locked in a legal battle with his two daughters over his £7million fortune said their lack of 'respect' and 'gratitude' made him feel like Shakespeare's King Lear, a court has heard. Tony Shearer, the former head of merchant bank Singer and Friedlander and finance governor of Rugby School, died at 68 in October 2017 from a brain tumour. Following his death, almost all of his fortune was left in the hands of their stepmother, with nothing in his will for his daughters - Juliet, 40, and Lauretta, 38. They claim they are due 'maintenance' from their father's estate to replace a 'generous financial provision' they had.