Wills

Mr Ronald Guthrie McNair Scott, of Old Basing, Hampshire, the soldier, biographer and novelist, left estate valued at pounds 1,382,546 net.

Mrs Morna Doris Brown (Elizabeth Ferrars), of Blewbury, Oxfordshire, the crime writer, left estate valued at pounds 509,655 net.

Mr Richard Charles Nicholson, of London SW1, left estate valued at pounds 651,349 net. He left pounds 139,000, his home and some effects to personal legatees, and the residue to the World Wide Fund for Nature.