Ancient, Curious, and Famous WillsHarris, Virgil M. (Virgil McClure)
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Ancient, Curious, and Famous Wills
Harris, Virgil M. (Virgil McClure)
Wills
“To Blanch Athena Clough two thousand five hundred pounds, and to
Florence Anne Mary Clough two thousand five hundred pounds. I
bequeath to each of them, the said Samuel Shore Nightingale and
Louis Hilary Shore Nightingale, the sum of three thousand five
hundred pounds. To each of them, Rosalind Frances Mary Nash and
Margaret Thyra Barbara Shore Nightingale (daughters of my said late
Cousin, William Shore Nightingale) the sum of one thousand five
hundred pounds. I bequeath five hundred pounds to the said Henry
Bonham Carter as a tiny sign of my gratitude for his wise and
unfailing exertions in connection with our Training Schools for
Nurses, and also the portraits of Sir Bartle Frere Mohl Hallam
Bunsen and the Sidney Herberts. And I also give to him a further
legacy of one thousand three hundred pounds for his objects, and to
Joanna Frances Bonham Carter a legacy of one hundred pounds. I give
to Francis Galton two thousand pounds for certain purposes and I
declare that the same shall be paid in priority to all other
bequests given by my Will for charitable or other purposes. I give
one hundred pounds to Mary Ureth Frederica, the daughter of William
Bacheler Coltman and Bertha Elizabeth Shore Coltman, his wife, and
fifty pounds to each of their sons, William Hew Coltman and Thomas
Lister Coltman. I bequeath three hundred pounds to J. I. Frederick,
Esquire, Secretary of the Army Sanitary Commission, three hundred
pounds to Sir Douglas Galton of Chester Street, London. I bequeath
one hundred pounds each to Mary and Emily, daughters of the late
Dr. William Farr of the General Register Office; two hundred and
fifty pounds to Mother Stanislaus, Reverend Mother of the Hospital
Sisters in Great Ormond Street, for her objects; one hundred pounds
to John Croft, Esquire, late Instructor of the Nightingale Training
School at St. Thomas’ Hospital, and two hundred and fifty pounds to
the Mother Superior at the time of my death of the Devonport
Sisters of Mercy. I direct my executors to purchase out of my
estate an annuity of sixty pounds on the life of Miss Crossland,
late ‘Home Sister’ of the Nightingale Training School at St.
Thomas’ Hospital. And also an annuity of thirty pounds on the life
of Miss Vincent, now Matron of St. Marylebone Infirmary. And I
bequeath to each of those ladies respectively the annuity so
purchased on her life absolutely: each annuity to commence from the
date of my decease. I bequeath one hundred pounds to Miss Styring,
now Matron of Paddington Infirmary; one hundred pounds to Miss
Spencer, now Lady Superintendent of Edinburgh Royal Infirmary; one
hundred pounds to Madame Caroline Werckner, who nursed the French
Prisoners in the Franco-German War at Breslau (now at Lymington);
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