CHARITY BENEFITS

Hokitika Guardian, 11 September 1933, Page 1

CHARITY BENEFITS

THE SUM OF £2,000,000 LEFT COUNTRY SQ LORE'S GENEROSITY LONDON, September 1. Benevolence on a prodigious scale is revealed as a sequel to the death of Mr Henry Trueman Mills, squire of Langton, near Market llarbnrougb. England. A millionaire although almost unknown outside his own country, he. lias left at least £2,000,000 to selected charities. Mr Mills, who was noted during his lifetime for gifts to charity, preferred the life of 'a country squire to anything else. He was chairman of the local Bench and confined nearly all his interest to the Market H'ar boro ugh district. His greatest pleasure was hunting, and lie rode to hounds until his medical adviser forbade him. He died recently at the age of 72. He was twice married, but had no children. He leaves a widow. It is understood that Mr Mills has left to his niece. Lady C'hesham, £2500 a year, and to her brother, Mr .1. C. T Mills, of Pick well Manor, Melton Mowbray, about £BOOO a year, in addition to his estate at Market Harborough, 8000 acres at Claremont and Hilborough, in Norfolk, and also certain properties in Loudon. Tt is estimated that Mr Mills’ gifts to Leicester Royal Infirmary alone exceed £50,000. When his grandfather died he felt £1.200,000, and when Mr Mill’s father died the family, fortune had increased to more than £4,000,000-