Wills

Mr Ian Mikardo, of Cheadle, Greater Manchester, former Labour MP and Chairman of the Labour Party, left estate valued at pounds 107,176 net.

Mr William Stewart, of West Chiltington, West Sussex, the television director and producer, left estate valued at pounds 405,962 net.

Alice Martha, Baroness Bacon, of Normanton, West Yorkshire, former Labour MP for South East Leeds and North East Leeds, left estate valued between at pounds 115,000 and pounds 125,000 net. After personal bequests of pounds 31,000, she left pounds 1,000 for Normanton Parish Church; and two-thirds of the residue to Leeds City Council and one third to Normanton Town Council, for the benefit of the elderly.

Mr Frederick Owen Alexander Godwyn Bennett, of Selling Kent, former chairman of Whitbread & Co and president of Kent Country Cricket Club, left estate valued at pounds 492,317 net.

Erica Brausen-Haizelden, of London SW1, the former art dealer and director of the Hanover Gallery, London left estate valued at pounds 541,681 net. She left three works by Giacometti, Walking Man, Head and Seagull, to the Tate Gallery, London.

Mrs Dorothy Mary Thomson, of Ilkley, West Yorkshire left estate valued at pounds 3,397,947 net.

Mr Robert Allan Carter, of Essington, Staffordshire left estate valued at pounds 1,445,765 net.

Mr Edmund John Green, of Ongar, Essex, left estate valued at pounds 1,233,714 net.

Winifred Mary Wilson, of Ellerdale Road, London NW3, left estate valued at pounds 1,159,568 net.

Mrs Meta Minnie Walton, of Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, left estate valued at pounds 1,058,638 net.

Miss Cicely Louise David, of Southport, Merseyside, left estate valued at pounds 1,079,467 net.

Mr Frederick John Forshaw, of St Helens, Merseyside, left estate valued at pounds 1,367,811 net.

Mr Charles Edward Goss, of Frinton on Sea, Essex, left estate valued at pounds 1,747,899 net.

Mr Frederick Sheldon, of Braintree, Essex, left estate valued at pounds 1,536,726 net.

Mr Norman Alfred Strong, of Bath, Avon, left estate valued at pounds 1,572,813 net.

Joanna Mary Marnan, of Salisbury, Wiltshire, left estate valued at pounds 1,185,068 net.

Mr Percy Guy Parker, of Wrexham, Clwyd, left estate valued at pounds 1,245,532 net.

Mr Eric Adcroft Corless, of Canford Cliffs, Dorset, left estate valued at pounds 527,777 net. After personal bequests of pounds 135,000, he left pounds 5,000 each to the British Heart Foundation, Chartered Accountants Benevolent Association, British Field Sports Society, British Horse Society, the Officers Association of the British Legion, Cancer Research Campaign and the Salmon and Trout Association; pounds 1,000 each to the Carmelite Monastery, Branksome Park, and the Sisters of Mercy of Night Providence Refuge House, London; and the residue to the Development Trust of Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn, Lancashire.

Mrs Doris Gwendoline Sommerfield, of London W1, left estate valued at pounds 625,680 net. She left pounds 27,500 in personal bequests, and the residue equally between the British Heart Foundation, Anthony Nolan Bone Marrow Trust at the Royal Free Hospital, London NW3, and the Jewish Home and Hospital, Tottenham.

Miss Myra Stock, of Swanage, Dorset, left estate valued at pounds 405,670 net. She left her entire estate to the RNLI.