Wills

Mr William Michael Francis Rothenstein, of Stisted, Essex, the artist and printmaker, left estate valued at pounds 779,343 net.

Sir William Horace Montagu-Pollock, of London SW5, former ambassador to Peru, Switzerland and Denmark, left estate valued at pounds 71,099 net.

Sir John Stafford Cripps, of Filkins, Oxfordshire, editor of the Countryman 1947-71, and chairman, the Countryside Commission 1970- 77, left estate valued at pounds 1,763,176 net.

Mr Ralph William Downes, organist at the Brompton Oratory, London, left estate valued at pounds 166,483 net.

Sir John Lawrence Longland, of Bakewell, Derbyshire, Director of Education for Derbyshire 1949-70, and the question-master of the radio quiz My Word, left estate valued at pounds 238,526 net.

Mr Henry Archer, of Kew, Surrey, former Under-Secretary in the Department of Health and Social Security, left estate valued at pounds 269,765 net.

Mrs Frances Pearl Esterkin, of Salford, Greater Manchester, left estate valued at pounds 1,366,706 net.

Deborah Ann Cursons, of Sale, Greater Manchester left estate valued at pounds 1,983,726 net.

Mrs Doreen Vera King, of Richmond, North Yorkshire, left estate valued at pounds 1,313,328 net.

Mrs Mollie Marguerite Claudine Moss, of Torquay, Devon, left estate valued at pounds 2,366,836 net.

Mrs Miriam Gabo, of London NW5, left estate valued at pounds 1,333,723 net.

Mr Alfred Barber, of Prestwich, Greater Manchester, left estate valued at pounds 1,081,441 net.

Mr Patrick Boyle Lake Coghlan, of Fernhurst, West Sussex, left estate valued at pounds 1,417,162 net.

Mr Alec David Charles Francis, of Malmesbury, Wiltshire, left estate valued at pounds 1,937,838 net.

Mr Peter Dorsman Rylands, of Blackham, East Sussex, left estate valued at pounds 1,964,002 net.

Nina Marguerite Snook, of Haslemere, Surrey, left estate valued at pounds 1,023,866 net.

Mr Frederick William Towns, of Marple, Greater Manchester, left estate valued at pounds 1,166,615 net.

Mr Samuel Bailey Wright, of Warwick, left estate valued at pounds 1,152,911 net.

Mr Harry Standring, of Stalybridge, Greater Manchester, left estate valued at pounds 2,311,944 net.

Eleanor Ursula Horton, of Herne Bay, Kent, left estate valued at pounds 1,298,391 net.

Mrs Jean Angus, of Blandford Forum, Dorset, left estate valued at pounds 2,431,654 net. She left pounds 4,500, a property in Tarrant Keynston and other bequests to personal legatees, and the residue equally between the National Trust for Scotland, and the PDSA, Glasgow.

Lt-Col Valentine Cambier, of London W5, left estate valued at pounds 609,608 net. bequests of pounds 5,600, and the residue to the Abbot and Community of Ealing Abbey.