NO TOP HATS
FUNERAL OF BANKER A farm-cart funeral, . no mourning and no top hats were instructions in the £513,000 will of retired banker Mr Hugh Gurney Barclay, squire of Colney, Norfolk. His son Evelyn was asked to give £5 to the head of each cottage in the parish. Mr Barclay made no .charitable bequest, because “ so largo a proportion of my estate will be applied in the payment of duty.” This amounted to £167,000. His remaining estate goes in family bequests. He was formerlv vice-chairman of Barclays Bank Ltd.
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Evening Star, Issue 22441, 11 September 1936, Page 1
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90NO TOP HATS Evening Star, Issue 22441, 11 September 1936, Page 1
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