MOTHER’S GIFT OF £40,000

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 300, 4 December 1929, Page 9

MOTHER’S GIFT OF £40,000

A tragic story lies behind the announcement that Mrs. Odo Cross, ol Stocknersh Manor, Brightling, Sussex, has given £40,0(10 to tho Medical Research Council for tuberculosis research. Two years ago Mrs. Cross lost two of her children within a few days of each other from tuberculosis. One was her daughter. Miss Dorothy Temple Cross, and the oilier her son, Mr Temple Cross. Both were in their twenties. All that money and medical science could do to save their lives had been done. Both had undergone special treatment by world-famous specialists and had in vain sought health in the South of France. Miss Cross left a fortune of £4O,(XX) to her mother, who has now decided to devote the whole of it as a memorial to her son and daughter for the relief of other sufferers from tuberculosis. The announcement of the gift states that “the amount in question is the total sum received bv Mrs. Odo Cross in respect of her daughter’s estate, no nart of which does she desire to retain for her own benefit.” It is stipulated that the money should be used for the endowment of a trust for the establishment of research in the study of tuberculosis, to be known as the “Dorothy Temple Cross Research Fellowship Fund.”