Wills

Sir Leonard Barford, of Seaford, East Sussex, the former Chief Inspector of Taxes, a member of the Board of the Inland Revenue and deputy chairman of the Horse Totalisator Board 1974-77, left estate valued at pounds 265,228 net.

Mr Brendan Joseph Mulholland, of Much Wenlock, Shropshire, the former journalist, left estate valued at pounds 131,049 net.

Mr John Gough, of Newton Abbot, Devon, Secretary of the CBI 1965-74, and formerly of its predecessor, the Federation of British Industries, left estate valued at pounds 373,727 net. He left pounds 250 each to the Children's Country Holidays Fund and the Ex-Services Mental Welfare Society.

Mr John Stanley Tomkinson, of London SW15, the Secretary General of the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics 1976-85 and a former obstetrician and gynaecological surgeon at Guy's Hospital, Queen Charlotte's Maternity Hospital and the Chelsea Hospital for Women, left estate valued at pounds 599,041 net.

Mrs Ellen Bennett, of Farnhill, North Yorkshire, left estate valued at pounds 1,910,393 net.

Mrs Eileen Mary Vaughan-Williams, of Woolton Hill, Hampshire, left estate valued at pounds 2,584,042 net.

Frances Ida Fensom, of Highgate, London N6, left estate valued at pounds 541,968 net. After personal bequests of pounds 17,500, she left the residue equally between the RNLI, RNIB, Help the Aged, Cancer Research Campaign, Guide Dogs for the Blind Association and Multiple Sclerosis Society.

Mrs Phyllis Georgina Pacey, of Worthing, West Sussex, left estate valued at pounds 897,090 net. After personal bequests of pounds 20,000, she left the residue equally between the RNLI, Ex-Services Mental Welfare Society, Children in Need Appeal, RNIB, RSPCA, Royal Star and Garter Home, Richmond, British Heart Foundation, and the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, Edinburgh.

Thomasina Ethel Morgan, of St Anthonys, Newcastle upon Tyne left estate valued at pounds 310,964 net. She left pounds 8,000 to Barnardo's, of Orchard House, Jesmond, and the residue equally between the Northern Counties Horse Protection Society, Eighton Banks, Gatehead, the Donkey Sanctuary, Sidmouth, and Redwings Horse Sanctuary, Frettenham, Norfolk.

Diana Marion Bonner Wood, of London NW8, left estate valued at pounds 1,379,114 net. After personal bequests of pounds 5,000, she left pounds 60,000 to the Distressed Gentlefolk's Aid Association, certain furniture and other effects to the National Trust, and 10 thirty-sevenths of the residue each to the National Art Collections Fund and the Fauna and Flora Society, seven thirty-sevenths of the residue to the Council for the Preservation of Rural Wales, six thirty-sevenths of the residue to the RSPB, and four thirty-sevenths of the residue to the Gardeners Royal Benevolent Society.

Dr Michael Lea Thomas, of London SW10, left estate valued at pounds 668,215 net. After personal bequests of pounds 5,000, he left the residue to the Royal College of Surgeons of England, for the establishment of a 'Lea Thomas Fund' for study or research in the field of Venous Disease.