BEQUEST TO SEAMEN
LORD INVERCLYDE’S WILL. LONDON, October 4. Distressed seamen of the British Empire and America are to benefit through a bequest to them of £200,000 by the second Lord Inverclyde, the famous shipowner and, former chairman of the Cunsrd Steamship Company. How the bequest came to light is a romance. Lord Inverclyde died in 1905, and in his will left lus property absolutely to his widow. Some weeks ' later • Lady Inverclyde was examining the contents of a, handbag left by her husband in bis business room at his firm’s Glasgow office, and discovered a second will of later -date than His original document. Doubt arose as to the validity of this will,- but ‘litigation was avoided, and arrangements were made- by which Lady Inverclyde- received £20,000 from the trust estate; her 'right in the balance was-restricted to .a,-life rent, and on her death it was to be handed over to the Merchants’ House of Glasgow for the Inverclyde Bequest for Seamen. ' The income from the fund will be about £lo',ooo a year,
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Evening Star, Issue 19408, 17 November 1926, Page 10
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174BEQUEST TO SEAMEN Evening Star, Issue 19408, 17 November 1926, Page 10
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