£lO,OOO FOR A VICAR.

Waikato Times, Volume 108, Issue 18159, 25 October 1930, Page 10

£IO,OOO FOR A VICAR.

GENEROUS GIFT. IN WILL OF WOMAN FRIEND. Interest has been aroused by the disclosure of a generous gift made to a London vicar in the will of Miss Mary Mildred Glover, of Chester Terrace, Regent’s Park, London. It consists of a legacy of £IO,OOO, free of duty, left to the Rev. Walter Ewart Bristow, vicar of St. Luke’s, Woodside. At the time Miss Glover made her will, In' May, 1924, Mr Bristow was warden of the Inns of Court mission In Drury Lane, and lived in Palace Mansions, West Kensington. Miss Glover, who died in June, was the elder daughter of the late Rev. John Hulbert Glover, a brother of St. Katharine’s Hospital*, and at one time vicar of Kingsthorpe, Northampton. She left estate worth £17,724, with net personalty £17,487. The residue of her. property goes to her sister and brothers.

When told of the legacy, Mr Bristow remarked: "I don’t know what I shall do with it. It is, of course, purely a personal gift. I do not intend to take a holiday and shall continue my work in the parish. “I am a bachelor, but the money will be very useful to me. My parish is a large one of some 20.000 people, most of them hard-working city folk.” Mr Bristow went on to recall the burning of St. Luke’s Church In .Tune last year, when he had to stand by powerless and watch the whole edifice go up in flames, leaving only blackened walls. “We had just finished the building at a cost of £5000,” he remarked, “We had to start all over again. We have raised all the money needed, except a thousand pounds, chiefly by weekly and imortthly contributions 8n small amounts from people who had previously given for the erection of the church. It Is now practically rebuilt, and-will be reopened by the Bishop of Crovdon on October 19. “Miss Glover was a friend of mine for several years,” continued (Mr Bristow. “She was an elderly woman and I first met her when I was vicar of St. Paul’s, Northampton.”