Wills

Mr John Barrington Wain, of Oxford, the novelist, poet and critic, and Professor of Poetry at Oxford University 1973-78, left estate valued at pounds 179,339 net.

Sir Edward Hugh Dudley Thompson, of Brailsford, Derbyshire, Chairman of Allied Breweries 1961-68, and High Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1964, left estate valued at pounds 1,138,594 net. He left pounds 1,000 to All Saints Church, Bedford.

Mrs Janet Mary Wordsworth, of Collyweston, Northamptonshire, left estate valued at pounds 2,017,847 net.

Mrs Julia Elizabeth Beharrell, of Hatfield Broad Oak, Essex, left estate valued at pounds 1,213,729 net.