Care worker quits job after inheriting £50m country estate

Care worker Jordan Adlard-Rodgers has left his job and council house behind to move into a country manor on a 1,536 acre estate, after a DNA test made him the sole heir of a £50 million estate.

Jordan Adlard-Rodgers has quit his job at Carers Break. Credit: Facebook

Jordan Adlard-Rodgers, who worked as a community support worker for Carers Break, had been trying for years to prove he was the son of Charles Rodgers, who lived at Penrose Estate in Cornwall, but was denied the truth about his birthright until Mr Rodgers died.

Penrose estate was gifted to the National Trust in 1974 in exchange for a 1,000-year lease to continue living there. The estate’s life tenant receives an income from the Rodgers Family Trust and Mr Rodgers received an allowance of as much as £1,000 a week.

Jordan Adlard-Rodgers, aged 31, said: “I’ve been at the point of worrying about the next bill and have had a tough start in life but now I’m here I want to help people. I’m not going to forget where I’ve come from.”

A portrait of Jordan's late father Charles Rodgers reveals a striking resemblance. Credit: Facebook

Mr Adlard-Rodgers, who bears a striking resemblance to his father, said he had suspected Charles Rodgers was his dad since he was eight-years-old but could never persuade him to take a DNA test.

Instead his father denied him the chance to claim his birthright throughout his life.

Charles Rodgers died of an overdose as a result of methadone toxicity in August 2018. He was found dead in his car, where he had been sleeping on the country estate.

An inquest at Truro heard how the care worker’s father Charles Rodgers had battled with drug addiction for years.

The inquest heard Mr Rodgers was malnourished, had neglected his personal hygiene and hadn’t changed his clothes in months.

Mr Adlard-Rodgers, who recently had a son with his partner Katie said: “People say I’m lucky but I would trade anything to be able to go back and for Charles to know I was his son.

“Maybe then he might have taken a different path.

"I don’t need to work anymore so want to set up a charity and help the Porthleven and Helston communities.”