Public Legacies.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 271, 24 March 1894, Page 4

Public Legacies.

Religious, charitable, and educa- ( tional institutions in Great Britain ( benefit to the extent of more than , £1,200,000 under the wills of persons / deceased during 1893. Last year such bequests amounted to £800,000 only, in 1890 about £1,200,000, and about a million in each of the three previous years. The largest charitable bequests are £300,000 by Baroness Forester for a cottage hospital and a seaside convalescent home ; £226,000 by Rev James -Spurrell, Brighton, to the Church Missionary Society and , other Anglican institutions and hospitals at London and Brighton, and about £62,500 to the London City Mission; £150,000 by Mr Henry Spicer, of Brighton and London, left between six hospitals. Mr John Horniman, tea merchant, left £89,000 and Sir William M'Kinnon £60,000, in charitable bequests. The largest personalties were Sir Andrew Barclay Walker's £2,874,100, made out of brewing ; the Earl of Derby's £1,802,---000 ; and the £742,800 left by another brewer, Mr Richard Vaughan, of Bath.