Will of the week
Rt. Rev. Arthur Mervyn STOCK- WOOD, of 15 Sydney Buildings, Bath, Avon, Bishop of Southwark 1959-80 and one of this century's most controversial Church of England bishops, who died on Jan. 13th last, aged 81, left estate val- ued at £352,877 gross, £348,475 net. He left £2,000 and his copes, chasubles and mitres, together with his silver crozer, silver dove for the reservation of the sacrament, and two brass candlesticks to Dublin Cathedral, his S.R. and C.R. Measure (a copper jug) to the York Railway Museum, a number of bequests and 10/47ths of the residue to personal legatees, £5,000, any monies left in The Dr Mervyn Stockwood Fund at Coutts and Co., and 1/47th of the residue to the Church Missionary Society, his gold Dalmatic together with the Icon of the Virgin Mary and 1/47th of the residue to the Church of All Saints, Clifton, Bristol, and 1/47th of the residue each to Battersea Dogs Home, Bath Cancer Unit Support Group at the Radiothera- py Department of the Royal United Hospital, Bath, RSPCA, Clergy Orphan Corporation, St. Luke's Hospital for the Clergy, London, NSPCC, the Church of St Matthew, Moorfields, East Bristol, Keston College, Kent, St Mary's Church, Bathwick, Helen House, Oxford, St. Francis Leprosy Guild, the Stable Family Home Trust, the Animal Refuge and Hospital, Wetherall Shields, Cumbria, Avon Wildlife Trust, Tele- phones for the Blind, the RNID Televi- sion for the Deaf Fund, Multiple Sclerosis Society, Children's Society, College of St. Barnabas, Lingfield, Sur- rey, The gardening for the Disabled Trust, MENCAP, National Equine and Smaller Animals Defence League, RNIB, Toynbee Hall, London El, the Cancer Help Centre, Clifton, Bristol, Age Concern England, Parents for Chil- dren, YMCA, Tuberculosis Sclerosis Association, Family Service Units, the Avon and Somerset Rescue Centre of the Animal Welfare Trust, Horses and Ponies Protection Association, Tad- worth Court Trust, Riverpoint Single Homeless, London W6, and the Friends of Claverton Down Cats and Dogs Home, Bath.
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