TO PERPETUATE FAMILY NAME.
BEQUEST TO NEW ZEALAND YOUTH. (rxiTED rnrcss association—by electiitc TELEGRAPH —COPYRIGHT.) J (Received December 2nd, 11.40 p.m.) ' LONDON, December 2. I The "News-Chronicle" says; Keen ! desire to perpetuate the family name ] actuated the Reverend John Arthur Wright's provisional bequest of £15,000 lo a fifteen-year-old schoolboy, Matthew Neal Hall-Wright, of Wairoa, New Zealand. The testator, who is a Bedfordite, left the estate in trust with a reminder to Matthew if he assumes the name of Leslie, instead of Hall-Wright. The lad is the testator's great-nephew, a son of Doctor Guy llall-Wright, of Wairoa. Mr Wright christened his only son Leslie, but the latter predeceased him, as also did his grandson, also named Leslie, who was killed in East Africa during the war. The testator further desired that Matthew should enter Holy Orders and go to the oldworld village of Toddington, Bedfordshire.
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20101, 3 December 1930, Page 11
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144TO PERPETUATE FAMILY NAME. Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20101, 3 December 1930, Page 11
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