Royal Albert Asylum for the care, education, and training of idiotic, imbecile, and weak-minded children and young persons, belonging to Lancashire, Yorkshire, Cheshire, Westmorland, Cumberland, Durham and Northumberland : thirty-fifth annual report.

  • Royal Albert Asylum (Lancaster, England)
Date:
1899
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Royal Albert Asylum for the care, education, and training of idiotic, imbecile, and weak-minded children and young persons, belonging to Lancashire, Yorkshire, Cheshire, Westmorland, Cumberland, Durham and Northumberland : thirty-fifth annual report. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    #-- FORM OF BEQUEST. I Bequeath to the Royal Albert Asylum for Idiots and Imbeciles the sum of free of duty, to be applicable for the purposes of such Institution, and I declare that the receipt of the Treasurer, or other proper officer, for the time being, of such Institution shall be a sufficient discharge for the same. I devise my [describe the property fully] free of duty, unto the Royal Albert Asylum for Idiots and Imbeciles, for all my estate and interest therein, the same to be for the absolute use and benefit of the said Institution and applicable for the purposes thereof.* * Until lately a Testator could give only money to a Charitable Institution, but now, by a recent Act of Parliament, he can give real estate (that is land, houses and other buildings, and chief rents) as well as money to such an Institution. LEGACIES. Miss Brackenbury, Brighton . £ 10,000 s. 0 d. 0 Asa Lees, Esq., Oldham and Ashton-under-Lyne . 10,000 0 0 Thomas Wrigley, Esq., Timberhurst, Bury. . 10,000 0 0 Mrs. R. B. Dodgson, Blackburn . ... ... 9,000 0 0 Miss Hannah Pickard, Osset . ... ... 7,285 14 4 John Bairstow, Esq., Preston . ... ... 5,000 0 0 John Eden, Esq., Durham. ... ... 5,000 0 0 The Very Rev. Geo. Waddington, D.D., Dean of Durham... 5,000 0 0 Charles Hodgson, Esq., Durham . ... ... 2,700 0 0 John Abbott, Esq., Halifax. .. ... ... 2,000 0 0 Miss E. A. Cort, Kirkby, Liverpool. . 2,000 0 0 Samuel Fielden, Esq., Centre Vale, Todmorden ... ... ... 2,000 0 0 James Holden, Esq., Rochdale . . 2,000 0 0 John Walker, Esq., Preston . ... ... 1,800 0 0 William Rothwell, Esq., Colwyn Bay 1,480 0 0 John Manchester, Esq., Preston . ... ... 1,153 16 4 Miss Jane Bridge, Castleton, Rochdale. ... ... 1,078 6 6 William Bindloss, Esq., Kendal and Milnthorpe... ... ... 1,033 13 10 Miss Anna Andrews Hibbert, Southport . ... ... 1,012 12 10 Major Barker, Holme Field, Wakefield. ... ... 1,000 0 0 Mrs. Goulden, Salford. ... ... 1,000 0 0 Thomas Greenhalgh, Esq., Highfield, Silverdale . 1,000 0 0 Mrs. P. Martin, Bolton-le-Moors . ... ... 1,000 0 0 Richard Newsham, Esq., Preston . ... ... 1,000 0 0 Mrs. Ormrod, Wyresdale Park, Garstang . 1,000 0 0 Mrs William Overend, Retford . 1,000 0 0 Miss Pennington, Preston.. 1,000 0 0 Andrew Pickard, Esq., Ossett. 1,000 0 0 Miss Mary Sterndale Rooke, Keswick . ... ... 1,000 0 0 Miss Tatham, Lancaster . ... ... 1,000 0 0 James Taylor, Esq., Rawtenstall . ... ... 1,000 0 0 James Wrigley, Esq , Holbeck, Winderm ?re. _Miss Jessica Ball Rigby, Liverpool. . . • ... 1,000 0 0 . 985 12 8 Mrs. Bindloss, Kendal and Milnthorpe. . 900 0 0 Alderman Watson, Preston. ... ... 900 0 0 Miss Bradley, Slyne, Lancaster . 720 0 0 Miss E. A. Ball, Southport.' . . 620 18 7 Mrs. Jane Dover, Skiddaw Bank, Keswick . . . . . • • 615 11 9 John Brown, Esq., Rotherham. ... . . • 548 15 0 Henry Brown, Esq., Rawdon . . 500 0 0 Mrs. Burton, Roundhay, Leeds. . 500 0 0 *