The Royal Albert Asylum, Lancaster : a training institution for the feeble-minded belonging to Lancashire, Yorkshire, Cheshire, Westmorland, Cumberland, Durham and Northumberland forty-third annual report.

  • Royal Albert Asylum (Lancaster, England)
Date:
1907
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Credit: The Royal Albert Asylum, Lancaster : a training institution for the feeble-minded belonging to Lancashire, Yorkshire, Cheshire, Westmorland, Cumberland, Durham and Northumberland forty-third annual report. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    FORM OF BEQUEST. I Bequeath to the Royal Albert Asylum at Lancaster 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 at Lancaster, 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 Agnes Willan, Bentham . ... 14,091 3 2 Asa Lees, Esq., Oldham and Ashton-under-Lyne • • • ... 10,000 0 0 Miss Brackenbury, Brighton .' ... • • • ... 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, Ossett . .. • ... 7,285 14 4 John Bairstow, Esq., Preston . ... 5,000 0 0 John Eden, Esq., Durham. ... ... 5,000 0 0 Thomas Rymer, Esq., Calder Abbey, Whitehaven ... ... 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 William Rothwell, Esq., Colwyn Bay . ... 2,080 3 2 John Abbott, Esq., Halifax. ... 2,000 0 0 Mrs. Johanna Beetleson, Liverpool. ... 2,000 0 0 Miss E. A. Cort, Kirkby, Liverpool. ... 2,000 0 0 Samuel Fielden, Esq., Centre Vale, Todmorden ... ... 2,000 0 0 Dame Dorothy Gray, West Hartlepool . .. . ... 2,000 0 0 James Holden, Esq., Rochdale . . . . ... 2,000 0 0 Thomas Lockwood, Esq., Harrogate . . .. ... 2,000 0 0 Mrs. Charles Turner, Liverpool. . .. ... 2 000 0 0 Charles Barraclough, Esq., Rochdale . .. • ... 1,945 13 3 John Walker, Esq., Preston . ... ... 1,800 0 0 John Manchester, Esq., Preston . ... 1,155 16 4 Miss Jane Bridge, Castleton, Rochdale . i • • ... 1,078 6 6 William Bindloss, Esq., Kendal and Milnthorpe ... t • • ... 1,033 13 10 Miss Anna Andrews Hibbert, Southport . • • • ... 1,012 12 10 Samuel Ackroyd, Esq., Bradford . • • • ... 1.000 0 0 Major Barker, Holme Field, Wakefield . ... ... 1,000 0 0 William Hunton Fisher, Esq., West Hartlepool ... • • • ... 1,000 0 0 Mrs. Goulden, Salford. 0 0 Thomas Greenhalgh, Esq., Highfield, Silverdale ... ... 1,000 0 0 Mrs. P. Martin, Bolton . ... 1,000 0 0 Richard Newsham, Esq., Preston . ... 1,000 0 0