Wills

Mr Norman Rene Del Mar, of Hadley Common, Hertfordshire, the conductor and composer, left estate valued at pounds 40,723 net. He left pounds 10,000 to the Musicians Benevolent Fund.

Oswald, fourth Marquess of Normanby, of Whitby, North Yorkshire, former Lord-Lieutenant of North Yorkshire and High Steward of York Minster, left estate valued at pounds 13,621,592 net.

Mr William Edgar Podmore (Bill Podmore), of Little Hayfield, Derbyshire, the television director and producer, the longest-serving producer of Coronation Street, left estate valued at pounds 264,703 net.

Dr Kenneth Charles Hutchin, of Broad Campden, Gloucestershire, medical consultant of the Daily Telegraph and author of How to Kill Your Husband and How Not to Kill Your Wife, left estate valued at pounds 486,423 net.

Mr Robert Norman Hepple, of Richmond, Surrey, the portrait painter, left estate valued at pounds 1,520,905 net.

Mr Frederick William Sternfield, of Oxford, the musicologist and former Reader in the Faculty of Music at Oxford University, left estate valued at pounds 192,495 net.

Mrs Anne Norah Argyle, of Fiskerton, Nottinghamshire, a leading member of the Kennel Club and a leading breeder and exhibitor of whippets, left estate valued at pounds 237,127 net. She left all her books, documents and memorabilia on dogs, her bronze of a whippet, two porcelain figures of whippets and her collection of dog statues to the Kennel Club Charitable Trust.

Ruth Lowit, of London NW8, left estate valued at pounds 2,071,351 net.

Mr William Vining Reakes, of Crank, Merseyside, left estate valued at pounds 2,681,471 net.

Mr Francis John Brooks, of Theydon Bois, Essex, left estate valued at pounds 2,228,394 net.

Mrs Hilda Margaret Panton, of Stamford Bridge, North Humberside, left estate valued at pounds 2,023,643 net.

Miss Dolores Celina Allason, of London SW3, left estate valued at pounds 1,405,582 net.

Mr William Thomas Baldwin Rees, of Barry, South Glamorgan, left estate valued at pounds 1,217,367 net.

Mr John Vivian Strong, of Pewsey, Wiltshire, left estate valued at pounds 1,611,906 net.

Mrs Jessica Mary Southall, of BarntGreen, Worcestershire, left estate valued at pounds 1,194,817 net.

Mr John Jeremy Howarth, of Maidenhead, Berkshire, left estate valued at pounds 1,174 861 net.

Mr Clive Gurney Harrison, of Ruislip, Middlesex, left estate valued at pounds 3,774,862 net.

Mrs Amy Priscilla Hill, of Lewes, East Sussex, left estate valued at pounds 1,099,235 net.

Mr William Henry Morris, of London W2, left estate valued at pounds 1,441,547 net.

Mrs Queenie Violet Shaw, of Enfield, Middlesex, left estate valued at pounds 1,873,642 net.

Mr Richard Hanmer Hilton-Jones, of Wrexham, Clywd, left estate valued at pounds 1,114,781 net.

Mrs Ada Hornsby, of Robertsbridge, East Sussex, left estate valued at pounds 1,029,037 net.

Mr James William Hearnshaw, of Stourbridge, West Midlands, left estate valued at pounds 1,874,198 net. He left pounds 250,000 to the Frank Hudson Foundation, Nottingham.

Mr Hugo Blum, of London NW10, left estate valued at pounds 1,253,782 net. After personal bequests of pounds 215,000, he left pounds 2,500 to the Belsize Square Synagogue, London NW3, and the residue to his Trustees for such charity or charities in England and Wales as they select.

Frances Menevia Chadwick, of Ainsworth, Great Manchester, left estate valued at pounds 569,397 net. After personal bequests of pounds 47,000, two oil paintings and a Chinese carpet, she left pounds 10,000 to St Mary's Church, Rawtenstall, pounds 1,000 to the First Church of the Nazarene, Bolton and the residue to the Seedfield Trust, Bury, 'to be used only for preaching the word of the Lord'.

Mrs Margaret White, of North Yorkshire, left estate valued at pounds 372,028 net. After personal bequests of pounds 7,000, she left pounds 2,000 to the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association and the residue to the Imperial Cancer Research Fund.