RICH WOMAN’S WILL

Taranaki Daily News, 25 July 1931, Page 14 (Supplement)

RICH WOMAN’S WILL

ESTATE VALUED AT £245,000. HANDSOME GIFTS TO FRIENDS. The British Treasury benefits by' more than £255,000 in death duties on two largo estates, details of which were published last month. Mrs. Sarah Frances Constance Lilian Philpott, of London, who died at the itgo of 49, gave away £90,000 to charity' and made bequests of mote than £5OOO to nine people. Her estate is valued at £245,000 gross, with net personalty £141,913. Iler bequests to charity include £20.000 to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution and £lO,OOO each to the Middlesex hospital (for research work) and St. Dunstan’s Hostel for Blinded Sailors and Sodicrs.

The chief bequests are as follows: — £O5OO to Leonard A. Swinden, late Alaster of Boy Scouts, of Clissold Park, London; £5OOO each to Dr. David Maieohnson Barcroft, of London, and Hugh Nethcrsole Pletcher, surgeon, of Hove; £5OOO to Philip ..Murray Gardner, of testatrix's firm of solicitors; £5OOO to Charles Gardner, solicitor, of that firm;

tb her former governess, Miss Annie Eleanor Morris, the bulk of her pictures and plate and the income for life from a trust fund of £soo'o, with remainder to her governess’ nie.Ce, Molly Morris; to her husband’s “valued chauffeur and friend,” Louis Kirkland, £5OO, her motor-car, and £6OOO on trust for him and his wife; to her maid, Annie Ellen Green, £lOOO, her furs and wearing apparel; £lOOO to Nurse Jeanie Stoddart, with which to buy herself an annuity; £5600 to her friend, Mrs. Kate Hooke; £5OO to Mrs. Madge Moore; £lOOO to Daisy Clegg. The residue of the property goes to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. As the death duties amount to nearly £BO,OOO, the residuary bequest to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution will bo comparatively small compared with other bequests.

. Mrs. Pliilpott further directed that a doctor should make sure that life waß extinct ami that her body should be cremated. She particularly desired that her two wedding rings, signet ring and a tiny dark blue enamel ring should be cremated with her and buried with her ashes. She requested that no flowers should be used at her funeral nor mourning worn by any of her friends.