A MILLIONAIRE'S WILL

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 15 June 1917, Page 1

A MILLIONAIRE'S WILL

LARGE BEQUESTS TO CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS. "Unsettled estate of the gross value of £1,007,165, the net personality being £952,232, is left by the late Mr Francis Reckitt, J.P., of Butler's Court, Beaconsaeld, Bucks, joint chairman of Reckitt and Sons, Ltd., manufacturers of RecKtt's Blue, •'ho died on January 25, aged 90 years, (■•-•other of Sir James Reckitt, Bart. Testa•«r gives .£5,000 to the Great Northern 'Jantral Hospital for ' their Convalescent. Home, £5,000 to Dr Barnardo's Home*, £2,000 to King Edward's Hospital fund, £I,OOO each to the X.M.C.A., T.W.C.A.. iioyal Hospital for Incurables, Putnev. iount Vernon Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest, Hampstead London v.ity Mission, Hull Sailors' Orphan Home, rtulf Royal Infirmary, Hull and East Riding Convalescent Home, £SOO each to the Hull

Children's Hospital, British and Forei< 3ible Society, British and Foreign An Slavery Society, Cancer Hospital, Bromptc £I,OOO and the freehold premises call Mansfield Lodge, Wimbledon, to his font private secretary, John P. Downes, £I,C to his private secretary. Florence Hull.