Wills

Sir Francis Anthony Gray, of Upton Scudamore, Warminster, Wiltshire, former Secretary and Keeper of the Records for the Duchy of Cornwall, left estate valued at pounds 307,803 net.

Rear-Admiral Sir Kenneth Robertson Buckley, of Lee-on-the-Solent, Hampshire, formerly Director of Naval Engineering and Electrical Training and Chief Naval Electrical Officer, left estate valued at pounds 122,169 net.

Sir Patrick Michael Meaney, of Sandridge, Hertfordshire, chairman of the Rank Organisation 1983-92, left estate valued at pounds 1,596,593 net.

Sir Robert Somerville, of London SE3, Clerk of the Duchy of Lancaster 1950-70 and its historian, and chairman of the Council of the British Records Association 1957-67, left estate valued at pounds 99,107 net. He left pounds 100 to the National Trust for Scotland.

Mr Nigel Mervyn Sanders, of London N2, left estate valued at pounds 3,091,939 net.

Mr Derek Walter Cox, of Tunbridge Wells, Kent, left estate valued at pounds 3,625,420 net.

Mr Sidney Kingsley, of London NW8, left estate valued at pounds 1,919,294 net.

Mr Leslie Donald Berry, of Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire, left estate valued at pounds 1,304,110 net.

Mrs Ida Mary Lavender, of Cambridge, left estate valued at pounds 1,295, 472 net.

Mrs Elspeth Waterhouse, of Wilpshire, Blackburn, Lancashire, left estate valued at pounds 1,728,876 net. She left many personal bequests, pounds 15,000 to the East Lancashire Hospice, Blackburn, pounds 5,000 to the Animal Shelter, Holker House, Altham, and the residue to the Mrs Waterhouse Charitable Trust.

Miss Edith Hearle, of St Austell, Cornwall, left estate valued at pounds 371,116 net. She left her entire estate equally between the Imperial Cancer Research Fund and the PDSA.

Mr Arnold Masheter, of Preston, Lancashire, left estate valued at pounds 802,726 net. He left pounds 102,500 in personal bequests, and the residue to the Salvation Army and RNIB.

Mr Henry Alfred Patterson, of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, left estate valued at pounds 253,211 net. He left his entire estate equally between the British Heart Foundation, the Imperial Cancer Research Fund and the RNLI.

Mrs Marjorie Squire Muirhead, of Tenterden, Kent, left estate valued at pounds 1,729,424 net. She left pounds 59,000 and some effects in personal bequests, pounds 50,000 to the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, pounds 10,000 to the National Anti-Vivisection Society, and the residue to the National Trust.

Miss Marjorie May Hiller, of Chichester, West Sussex, left estate valued at pounds 376,163 net. She left personal bequests totalling pounds 5,000; and pounds 1,000 and one quarter of the residue each to the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, St Christopher's Hospice, London SE26, and the Marie Curie Memorial Foundation, and one quarter of the residue to the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

Miss Phyllis Georgina Bourne, of Bristol, left estate valued at pounds 345,247 net. She left pounds 1,600 and effects in personal bequests, and the residue equally between Bristol Age Care, St Peter's Hospice, Knowle, Bristol, British Red Cross, Spastics Society, NSPCC, RSPCA and the Friends of Bristol Horses Society.

Mr Anthony Gerald Bailey, of Heytesbury, Wiltshire, left estate valued at pounds 214,074 net. He left personal bequests totalling pounds 7,000, his horse brasses and harnesses to the Dewey Museum, Warminster, and the residue equally between the League of Friends of Odstock Hospital, Salisbury, the Home of Rest for Horses, Aylesbury, Guide Dogs for the Blind Association and British Heart Foundation.

Mrs Susan Garth, of London SW1, left estate valued at pounds 1,015,117 net. She left pounds 250,000, and certain property in personal bequests, and the residue to the Friends of the Hebrew University, London, requesting it benefit the cancer research programme.