HANDSOME BEQUEST.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 998, 13 December 1910, Page 6

HANDSOME BEQUEST.

" ...;» ~, ■ - ART' COLLECTION AND £50,000, Captain Henry Boyles Murray, of 2G Bina Gardens, South Kensington/. England, who died on August 24 at tho age of 07, left estate valued for probate at ■ 7s. 9d. gross and .£123,710 7s. lOd. net. 'Of this • amount he-.bequeathed about ,£OO,OOO for charitable purposes, and -he also ■ left his .art collection to the Victoria and Albert Museum,' South Kensington. The hospitals which benefit -by his will are:— . ':•■;-.' £ West London Hospital 1,050 St. -Thomas's Hospital 1,000 . St.. George's Hospital .......; 1,000 ; -King's College Hospital .:.'.:..!.;:....... 1,000 St. Mary's .Hospital, 1,000 ■ Hospital for ■ Children,' ; Gt. Ormoud '•■'■' Street, - ..., ; !.... 500 .Royal Dental-Hospital ..'...• 500 ■Victoria' Hospital fbi\ Children, ! . Queen's Road, Chelsea 500 :London Fever Hospital, Liverpool Road, N. .....;...'.,.!.:.-.: -500 - Cancer Hospital,, Fulliam Road .... 100, The works of art left-by Captain Murray, to' tho Trustees -of 'the Victoria and •-Albert'-'Museum for .the benefit of the 'nation include pictures, jewellery, miniatures, china, fa,ns, ecclesiastical plate, etc. They .are to be deposited, and, kept together in the museum as much as possible, and not distributed over various parts of, the institution, and the collection'will be knbwri-as."Captain H. B. Murray's Bequest/'' ' Captain Murray. also. leaves ~£50,000 to the. trustees..of the museum in trust for investment, the. in come to be' applied annually, and not by way,of anticipation, to the. purchase of such works of art as, in . their uncontrolled discretion, they shall think fit. to be.added to, and form part of the collection. : The testator who makes'this munificent bequest to tho nation -desires that "his remains shall be interred without ostentation in Brookwood .'Cemetery, Woking, and that a plain marble and granite tombstone shall be erected over his -grave." The total cost of his funeral, grave, and tombstone,' is . not to' exceed £200. - *-, - -■;; ' The residue of-.; the property is left to the testator's .'brother,. Sir.Charles Wyndham Murray, who was member for Bath 'from 1892 to 1906. .-.;;-....-' •' ;