Wills

Mrs Elizabeth David, of London SW3, the cookery writer, left estate valued at pounds 556,328 net. She left a watercolour portrait of herself as a child by Ambrose McEvoy, a 1954 sketch of herself by Adrian Daintrey, a 1956 drawing of herself by John Ward, and a portrait photograph of herself by Madame Hassia to the National Portrait Gallery; a painting, The Eggs by Cedric Morris, to the Tate Gallery; and all her books relating to cookery to the Warburg Institute, London.

Sir Karl Theodore Parker, of Eastbourne, East Sussex, the art historian and Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford 1945-62, left estate valued at pounds 425,415 net.

Mr Malcolm Allinson Anson, of Salisbury, Wiltshire, former chairman of Imperial Tobacco and of the Wessex Water Authority and High Sheriff of Avon in 1977, left estate valued at pounds 390,855 net.

Mr Arthur Calder-Marshall, of Hothfield, Kent, the writer, left estate valued at pounds 135,319 net.

Mr Gerald Francis Potter, of Welshpool, Powys, left estate valued at pounds 3,125,732 net.

Mrs Sarah Gredley, of Stetchworth, Cambridgeshire, left estate valued at pounds 15,163,530 net.

Mr Anthony Lewis Davies, of Crockham Hill, Kent, left estate valued at pounds 2,040,162 net.

Mrs Peggy Lilian Winter, of Newbury, Berkshire, left estate valued at pounds 502,590 net. After personal bequests of pounds 190,000, she left the residue to the Imperial Cancer Research Fund.

Mr Edward Fisher Wiliams, of Luxborough, Somerset, left estate valued at pounds 653,702 net. After personal bequests of pounds 100,000, he left pounds 25,000 each to the British Red Cross Society, the Royal Life Saving Society, Barnardo's, Guy's Hospital, London, British Home and Hospital for Incurables, London SW16, the Royal Hospital and home, London SW15, the Royal Star and Garter Home, Richmond, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children, London, the Samaritans and Multiple Sclerosis Society; pounds 1,000 to Luxborough Church Restoration Fund; and the residue to the National Trust.

Miss Patricia Adames, of London NW3, left estate valued at pounds 221,315 net. She left her entire estate equally between the Friends of Animals League, Biggin Hill, Kent, and the Chest, Heart and Stroke Association.

Miss Jean Alison Carr, of Pulborough, West Sussex, left estate valued at pounds 875,215 net. She left her home together with an endowment of pounds 350,000 to form the Jean Carr Trust, for the benefit of painters, watercolourists, other artists and people who for reasons of age, infirmity, disability or economic hardship, would benefit from holiday facilities provided by that property, to be administered by Age Concern, West Sussex; and pounds 1,000 to Barnardo's.