£200,000 FOR SEAMEN

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 48, 20 November 1926, Page 26

£200,000 FOR SEAMEN

ROMANCE OF PEER'S WILL. The Merchants’ House of Glasgow has received a bequest by the second Lord Inverclyde of £203.61/, which is to be used on behalf of seamen or their wives and families in distressed circumstances (says an English paper). The payment of the bequest recalls the circumstances in which a -econd will by Lord Inverclyde, of Castle Wemyss, Wemyss Bay, Renfrewshire, was found shortly after his death in >905. There was a will leaving all his property to Lady Inverclyde, but on examining the contents of a handbag left by Lord Inverclvde in his office in Glasgow. Ladv Inverclvde found a document containing the bequest to Merchants’ House. This was of later date than the other will. It was agreed that Lady Inverclvde should at once receive £20.000 out of the trust estate, that 1 er right in the balance should be restricted to a life rent, and that on her death it should be handed to the Merchants’ House. Lady Inverclvde died two years ago. The' income of the fund will be about £lO.OOO a year. Two-fifths is to be expended in Scotland, one-fifth in the cities of Manchester. Liverpool. and Belfast, and the surrounding districts, and one-fifth i n the cities of New York and Boston and the surrounding districts.,