NO TOP HATS
A farm-cart funeral, no mourning and no top hats were instructions in the £513,000 will of a retired banker, Mr Hugh Gurney Barclay, squire of Colney, Norfolk. His son, Evelyn, was ask-,- to give £5 to the head of each cottage in the parish. Mr Barclay made no charitable bequests because “so large 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 formerly vice-chairman of Barclays Bank. Ltd.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22985, 14 September 1936, Page 10
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88NO TOP HATS Otago Daily Times, Issue 22985, 14 September 1936, Page 10
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