£30,000 FOR NURSING HOME

Grey River Argus, 21 October 1936, Page 6

£30,000 FOR NURSING HOME

ANOTHER NUrr-rET.D DONATION. (Ans. & N.Z. Cable Assn.) LONDON October 19. Lord Nuffid’d has given £30.000 to the Acland Nursing Home, Oxford, (where he was a patient on several occasions, and where his wife was treated after a motor sma..=>h. RUGBY, October 16. The terms of the letter in which Lord Nuffield made his great gift to Oxford University are, announced. He is to give £1,250,000 in trust to the University for the development of the University’s Medical School, and the Nuffield Institute for medical research, so to provide a great postgraduate school, with senior posts for men and women not subject to the distractions of private practice, under whom will be a body of salaried clinical assistants and Itbuse officers. Since Lord Nuffield’s gift will lay an entirely new responsibility on the University without depriving it of any of its present expenditure, he has promised to contribute a further £lOO,OOO to the forthcoming appeal for funds to endow the future maintenance of the Bodleian Library and the new laboratory for physics, geology and other developments. Lord Nuffield’s fortune is estimated at more than £20,000,000.