QUAINT WILLS
Money has been listed as ond of the' three most interesting topics in the world. This is how several people disposed of some of their money in wills published in London recently. Mr. Hamilton Fulton, of the Close,, Salisbury, and of Budleigh Salterton, South Devon, who died aged 86 with a gross estate of £28.3-14. left £5 to his chiropodist, "who has relieved me of more pain than all the doctors in Great Britain.” Sir. Ernest A. Upcott, for 40 years
a master at Wellington College. left £17,000; £lOOO of it to Henrietta Stark, widow of his late butler, and £lOO to her son, Cyril Stark. Miss Margaret Gascoigne, of Montreal, headmistress of the Study 1 school, included in htjr will instructions for her school successor. “She should be young and vigorous—between 30 and 40, interested in art and progressive ideas and —very important she must have a sense of humour.” Mr. Frederic Samuel Sage, of Sneyd Park, Bristol, who left £10,912, gave £lOO to each of ten men friends.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 226, 21 June 1935, Page 3
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172QUAINT WILLS Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 226, 21 June 1935, Page 3
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