LEFT £400,000

Evening Star, Issue 19409, 18 November 1926, Page 16

LEFT £400,000

FOR THE POOR OF THE UPPER AND MIDDLE CLASSES. Mr Samuel William Farmer, of the Manor House, Little Bedwyn, Wilts, who died last July, aged seventy-eight, left the bulk of £400,000 to help the middle classes. His estate was proved of the gross value of £404,330, with net personalty £381,341. Ho bequeathed to his secretary, Louise O’Rourke, and assistant secretary, Edith Kirby, a life annunity of £l5O and a legacy of £2OO if still in his service, and to his housekeeper his personal effects, £2O, and a life annuity of £IOO. Ho directed that if his housekeeper, secretary, or either of them elect to continue to reside on his Little Bedwyn estate they shall do so free of rent, and should have the use of his car and of furniture, and. if so residing, or to.such ono as shall do so. an annuity of £SOO during such occupation. , Subject to some specific bequests, he left the residue oF his property “ for the benefit of persons, particularly of the upper, middle, or professional classes who, through ill-health or by reason of advancing years, are incapable of earning their own livelihood, or for such educational purposes, hospitals, or other similar charitable objects in such proportion as my trustees may flunk fit.”-