CHARITY MILLIONS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6451, 24 February 1908, Page 6

CHARITY MILLIONS.

ini.oon.oon bequeathed in two YEARS. During the last two years no less a jt'iMii than ATO..WO.OOD has been reported as having been left for charitable, religious, and other public 'uses in Great Britain. Beyond these sums wills not reported would probably bring up the total to more than eleven millions. The annual average for tho 20 years before 18vS bad not exceeded £2.500,000, but tbo total for 1807 has exceeded £5,500,000. This includes 27 bequests ol £40,000 each and upwards, ns compared with 25 such bequests in 1906. Nearly half of the total in 1907 was derived from six bequests of £IOO,OOO and upwards as follows:

BEQUEST'S TO UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES. Sir William George Pearce, who died on November 2nd. last, aged 4S years, appointed a sum of £IOO,OOO over which ho had power under hie father’s will, and bequeathed the residue of his own estate in trust for Trinity College, Cambridge, subject to tbo life interest of his widow, who survived him for only seven weeks.

Prof. Thomas Barker, of Owens College. Manchester, formerly a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Senior Wrangler, who died November 20th, IWT. and whose estate was valued at £16.333, left the reversion of his residuary estate—about £35,000—t0 found a professorship of cryptogamio botany and scholarships in mathematics and holf.n.v in the Victoria University, Manchester.

Mr Charles James Oldham, nplithalmic Ruvgeou. who died Jan 21st, 1007, leaving £77,059. bequeathed .£IO,OOO. and half of his residuary estate to Corpus Chrieti College, Oxford, £SOOO each to Universities of Oxford and Cambridge for scholarships in Greek and Latin and the study of William Shakespeare, and ,£3OOO and half of his residuary estate to the Manchester Grammar School. Dr. William .Tarts, 03, an iron merchant in Glasgow, whoso estate was valued at £113,500 left £20.000 to the University Court of Glasgow', for a “William Jacks” Professorship of Modern Languages. Mr Frederick James Quick, 67. of Trinity Hall. Cambridge, and of Fenclrurch street, coffee dealer, who died in 1932, and whose estate was valued at £70.000 left his residuary estate, about £55|000, to the University of Cambridge in trust to apply the income in the promotion of the study of vegetable and animal biology. Mr Archibald Henry Blount. 65, a Herefordshire landowner, who died on Juno 17th lost. left his residuary estate of about £BO.OOO, including the manor of Orleton. Hereford, to the Yale University at New Haven. U.S.A., with which he was not known to have had any connection, CHILDLESS DONATOKB.

The aggregate amount of 23 other bequests of over ,£30,000 and under .£IOO,OOO each is much more than half of the total capital from which they are derived. Those who leave considerable earns for public uses are for tho most part childless persons. The bequests of between .£IO,OOO and <£30,000 each noticed in 1907 were some 70 in number, making up the total over .£IO,OOO each to about 104 or 105.

William Whiteloy, for “Whiteloy Homes' 1 ... Boauests £ 1,008.000 Value of Estates. £ 1,432,000 Georg© Herring, chiefly for the Hospital Eruuday Fund ... . 900,00 1,371,000 Sir William George Pearce, for Trinity College, Cambridge 105,000 463,000 Edmund, 1st Boron OriiUbhorpc, for churches 170,000 2,112,000 Miss Helen Perry, chiefly for hospitals 150,000 321,000 Henry Calcott Brunning. for Masonic Institutions and orphenngou 100,000 116,000 •C2.783.000 .£5,835,000