Wills

Professor Sir William Mansfield Cooper, of Godmanchester, Cambridgeshire, former Professor of Industrial Law at Manchester University and Vice-Chancellor 1956-70, left estate valued at pounds 123,128 net.

Mr William Arthur Stephenson, of Bishop Auckland, Co Durham, the trainer of steeplechasers and hurdlers, left estate valued at pounds 814,131 net.

Mr Bernard Braden, the actor and broadcaster, of London NW3, left estate valued at pounds 167,666 net.

Sir Ernest Jones-Parr, of Brighton, East Sussex, executive director of the International Sugar Organisation 1965-78, and a former Director of Establishments at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, left estate valued at pounds 169,781 net.

Col Sir Henry Nelson Clowes, of London SW6, Lieutenant of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms 1976-81, left estate valued at pounds 189,728 net.

Mr Percy Charles Colwell, of Warsash, Hampshire, left estate valued at pounds 2,884,960 net.

Mr John Ronald Leslie Gale, of Wittersham, Kent, left estate valued at pounds 1,382,345 net.

Eric Ward, of Malton, North Yorkshire, left estate valued at pounds 1,113,154 net.

Mr Anthony Antal Nemet, of Richmond, Surrey, left estate valued at pounds 1,470,032 net.

Mr Thomas Clifford Flory, of Harpenden, Hampshire, left estate valued at pounds 1,245,834 net.

Teresa Koerner, of London SW3, left estate valued at pounds 1,025,467 net.

Mr Geoffrey Foulds Gilbert, of Southport, Merseyside, left estate valued at pounds 1,191,480 net.

Miss Margaret Palling Betts, of Malvern, Worcestershire, left estate valued at pounds 435,337 net. She left her entire estate equally between the Worcester Scanner, at Worcester Royal Infirmary, St Michael's Hospice, Bartestree, Hereford, the Friends of Wells Cathedral, Somerset, RSPB and RNLI.

Mr Adrian Meyer Paul Bookbinder, of Maidenhead, Berkshire, left estate valued at pounds 271,958 net. He left his entire estate to the RSPB.