Wills

Sir Richard Thomas Dyke Acland, of Broadclyst, Devon, Labour MP for Gravesend, Kent and Liberal MP for Barnstaple 1935- 45, left estate valued at pounds 253,899 net.

Mr Sydney George Vincent, of Leigh, Greater Manchester, former Lancashire Area Secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers, left estate valued at pounds 245,096 net.

Professor Ralph Ludwig Edward Schwarzenberger, of Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, former Professor of Mathematics at Warwick University, left estate valued at pounds 204,024 net.

Sir Leslie Francis Knipe, of Llanfihangel Crucorney, Gwent, former Chairman of the Conservative Party in Wales, left estate valued at pounds 148,451 net.

Col Jocelyn Fisher, of Topsham, Devon, Assistant Adjutant-General, Ministry of Defence 1964-67, left estate valued at pounds 148,107 net. She left pounds 10,000 to St Margaret's Church, Topsham, for religious or charitable purposes; pounds 5,000 to the WRAC Benevolent Fund; and pounds 500 to the Women Caring Trust, with the wish it benefit the Topsham Branch.

Sir Ralph Regnault Millais, of Winchelsea, East Sussex, vintage car expert, left estate valued at pounds 449,301 net.

Mr Edward Philip Harvey, of Weston-super-Mare, Avon, left estate valued at pounds 2,700,716 net. He died intestate.

Mrs Doreen Beatrice Leigh- Pemberton, of London SW15, left estate valued at pounds 1,656,120 net.

Mr Alfred Blakeman, of Market Drayton, Salop, left estate valued at pounds 1,381,514 net.

Mr Ronald Walter Archer, of Ware, Hertfordshire, left estate valued at pounds 1,526,350 net.

Mr Harold Small, of Taunton, Somerset, left estate valued at pounds 1,002,882 net.

Mr David Loarder, of Shoreham- by-Sea, West Sussex, left estate valued at pounds 1,054,787 net.

Mr Ernest Walter George Braddick, of Podington, Bedfordshire, left estate valued at pounds 1,041,212 net.

Mr Charles Thomas Richard Richards, of Westcott, Surrey, left estate valued at pounds 1,678,709 net.

Mr Harry Grosberg, of Whitefield, Manchester, left estate valued at pounds 1,368,638 net.

Mr Alexander David Thomson, of Birkdale, Merseyside, left estate valued at pounds 1,332,623 net. After personal bequests of pounds 146,500, he left the residue equally between the 341 Preston Air Training Corps, the Birkdale School for Hearing Impaired Children, Southport, the Queenscourt Hospice, Southport, RSPCA, Southport and District Branch of the Cancer Research Campaign, and the Southport Branches of the St John Ambulance Brigade, Chest, Heart and Stroke Association, Barnardo's and the PDSA.

Miss Doris Clarkson, of Bolton, Greater Manchester, left estate valued at pounds 3,995,598 net. After leaving personal bequests of pounds 145,000, her home and certain securities, she left the residue equally between the Bolton Lad's Club, Bolton Hospice, the Destitute Animals Shelter, Bolton, RSPCA, PDSA, the Bleakholt Animal Sanctuary, Shuttleworth, RSPC, Salvation Army, RNLI, International Fund for Animal Welfare, Donkey Sanctuary, Sidmouth, St Dunstan's and Barnardo's.

Miss Ada Taylor, of Bebington, Merseyside, left estate valued at pounds 220,934 net. After personal bequests of pounds 15,000, she left the residue to the Guild of Benevolence of the Institute of Marine Engineers.