£250 000 BY CHANCE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13299, 7 February 1914, Page 10

£250 000 BY CHANCE.

♦ . CHARITY WINDFALL BY BOY'S •• v : : ,;.■■.!: DEATH. . Tlie death of a • Harrow schoolboyMr Geoffrey Charles Ansell, who wai heir to a £300,000 estate, has ', resulte. m an unexpected windfall of aboui £260,000 to London charities. Mr. Ansell was injured while tobog baning on the Cresta Run m Switzer land . two years ago, and has just diec m London from the effects of the acdi dent.. He was only 17, and the 'provision! made. by the late Mr Charles Ansell ir the event of his son dying a minoi become operative. Briefly, they are that the estate to be realised for th< benefit of hospitals and other institutions m London, subject to bequests tc relatives and friends and the payment of certain annuities . (including one ol £2000 to Mrs Ansell). The bequests specifically mentioned ir the will include the. following : £50,001 to Kin,g Edward's Hospital Fund ; £25,000 to the National Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children"; £25,00. to the Royal Society for Prevention ol Cruelty to Animals ; £10,000 each tc Charing Cross, - St. Thomas's, St. Bartholomew's, Guy's, St. George's, Westminster, Middlesex, and London Hospitals ; £4000 each to 18 other hospitals. ■Should any sums remain after the specific bequests haVo been paid, the trustees are empowered to devote them to any charitable objects they think proper. Mr Charles Ansell's fortune recalls a romance of the South African gold mining boom m 1895. At that time Mr Ansell was a member of the . firm oi Ansell, Mankiewicz, 'and Tollerm-an. which reaped largo profits from the boom. Mr Ansell lived m Sloane street, and m 1905 he purchased* Minister House, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, as a country residence.' The transaction had hardly been completed when he died at tbe age of 45. The son was a ward m Chancery. '.....,- --* ntmmmmmwammmmmwmommm ■ ■