LORD NUFFIELD’S GIFTS

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 47, Issue 2671, 17 September 1937, Page 8

LORD NUFFIELD’S GIFTS

BENEFACTIONS TO RESEARCH TOTAL EXCEEDS £8,000,000. It was announced recently that Lord Nuffield had given £24,000 to the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases in London for the reconstruction of the Research Department .

Lord Nuffield’s gifts now exceed £8,000,000. The Oxford University Institute of Medical Research, the scope of which now is to be so greatly increased, was founded by Lord Nuffield, who gave £lOO,OOO for the benefit of the Radcliffe Infirmary and the University Medical School. He had previously given £BO,OOO for the site and buildings of the infirmary. He later gave £2,000,000 for medical research at Oxford and £2,000,000 for special areas. A gift of £102,000 to St. Thomas’ Hospital in London was Lord Nuffield’s latest single previous donation. He gave £52,000 for the new Birmingham Hospital Centre, £47,000 to rebuild the Wingfield Orthopoedic Hospital, near Oxford, and £45,000 for the erection of accommodation for paying patients at Guy’s Hospital, London. Cancer research was endowed with a sum of £25,000, thanks to Lord Nuffield’s generosity, during the Empire Cancer Campaign, and he made a donation for crippled children in

Australia amounting to £50,000, and in New Zealand to £60,000.

His other benefactions include £lO,OOO to ensure the future of St. Peter’s Hall, Oxford’s youngest foundation, in memory of his mother; £30,000 to the Royal Berkshire Hospital; £30,000 to the Upholland Unemployed Settlement; another £16,000 to Oxford’s new Institute of Medical Research; £lo,ooo.for a chair of Spanish at Oxford; £25,000 for Birmingham hospitals; £30,000 to the Asland Nursing Home; £26,000 for the Worcester Infirmary; £26,000 for the Mount Vernon Hospital for Consumptives; £35,000 for talking books for the blind; £25,000 to the Papworth Tuberculosis Settlement; and £136,000 to the Birmingham Hospital Centre for a nurses’ home.

An unusual gift was the creation of an endowment fund of £lO,OOO for assisting parents of Borstal inmates to travel to see. their sons.

‘He has also given £2,125,000 to create a fund undei’ which workpeople of his concern, in addition to receiving holiday pay, will share in the profits.