RICH WOMAN’S WILL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 190, 13 August 1931, Page 5

RICH WOMAN’S WILL

ESTATE VALUED AT £245,000. HANDSOME GIFTS TO FRIENDS. OVER £47,000 TO NINE PEOPLE. The British Treasury benefits by more than £255,000 in death duties on two large estates, details of which were published last month. Mrs. Sarah Frances Constance Lilian Philpott, of London, who died at the age of 49, gave away £90,000 to charity and made bequests of more than £soo*o to nine people Her estate is values! at £245,000 gross, with net personalty £141,913. Her 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 Winded Sailors and Soldiers. K The chief bequests are as follows: £6500 to Leonard A. Swmden, late 4aster of Boy Scouts, of Clissold Park, London; £5009 each to Dr David Maiuolmson Barcroft, of London and Hugh Netheraole Fletcher, surgeon, of Hove, £5600 to Philip Murray Gardner, of les-

tatrix’s firm of solicitors; £5OOO to Charles Gardner, solicitor, of that firm; to her former governess, Miss Annie Eleanor Morris, the bulk ot her pictures and plate and ths income for life from a trust fund of £5OUu, with re maindcr to her governess’ niece, Molly Morris; to her husband’s 1 * valued hauffeur and friend,’ Louis Kirktand, £5OO, her motor-cars and £6'»oo on trust for him and his wife; to her maid, Annie Ellen Green, £lf?GO, her furs and wearing apparel; .UOvO to Nurse Jeanie Stoddart, with which to buy uerself an annuity; £5600 to her friend, Mrs. Kate Rooke; £5OOO to Mis. Madge, Moore; £lOOO to Daisy Clegg. The residue of the property goes to the Royal National Lifeboat Enstitotion. As the death duties amount 10 nearly £BO,OOO, the residuary bequest to ihc Rojal National Lifeboat Institution will be comparatively small compared with other bequests. Mrs. Philpott further directed that a doctor .-houid make sure that life was extinct and that her body «hould 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 flowen should be used at her funeral nor mourning worn by any of her friends/