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111McCaig's Tower — McCaig s Tower. View from the tower over Oban Bay looking towards …
112Legacies — • In its most restricted sense, by a pious legacy or bequest (legatum pium) is understood, the assigning, by a last will, of a particular thing forming part of an estate, to a church or an ecclesiastical institution Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin… …
113National Gallery — This article is about the National Gallery in London. For other uses, see National Gallery (disambiguation). Coordinates: 51°30′31″N 0°07′42″W / 51.5086°N 0.1283°W …
114Bequests For Masses — Bequests for Masses † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Bequests for Masses The efficacy of prayers for the dead , remarks the Court of Appeals of the State of New York in Holland v. Alcock, 108 New York Court of Appeals Reports, page 312, is… …
115devise — de·vise 1 /di vīz/ vt de·vised, de·vis·ing [Anglo French deviser to divide, share, bequeath, ultimately from Latin dividere to divide]: to give (property) by will; specif: to give (real property) by will compare alienate, bequeath, convey …
116legacy — leg·a·cy / le gə sē/ n pl cies [Medieval Latin legatio, from Latin legare to bequeath]: a gift of property by will; specif: a gift of personal property by will: bequest see also ademption compare devise conjoint leg …
117Francis Leggatt Chantrey — Self portrait of Sir Francis Legatt Chantrey, c. 1810. Sir Francis Leg(g)att Chantrey (7 April 1781 – 25 November 1841) was an English sculptor of the Georgian era. He left the Chantrey Bequest or Chantrey Fund for the purchase of works of art… …
118Ayr — AYR, a sea port, burgh, and market town, in the district of Kyle, county of Ayr, of which it is the capital, 77 miles (S. W. by W.) from Edinburgh, and 34 (S. S. W.) from Glasgow; containing 8264 inhabitants. This place derives its name from… …
119James Smithson — Infobox Scientist name = James Smithson box width = 26em image width = caption = An 1816 portrait of Smithson by Henri Joseph Johns, now in the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution birth date = 1765 birth place = Paris, France …
120Alfred Felton — (8 November 1831 ndash;8 January 1904) was an Australian entrepreneur, art collector and philanthropist. BiographyAlfred Felton was born at Maldon, Essex, England on 8 December 1831. He travelled to Victoria on the ship California in 1853 ,… …
