PORTSDOWN HUNDRED 



PORTSMOUTH 



Jacob Nathan, by will, proved 1867, left 63 ot. gJ. 

 consols, dividends to be applied for benefit of poor 

 Jews, through the agency of the Jewish Mendicity 

 Society. 



By will, proved 12 May, 1884, the Rev. Edward 

 Sheridan bequeathed his residuary estate to the 

 Roman Catholic bishop of Portsmouth and his suc- 

 cessors upon trust to apply income in support of 

 charitable objects in his diocese. The trust fund at 

 present consists of 547 8/. 4</. consols, the dividends 

 of which are applied towards the pension of one eccle- 

 siastical student. The charity is further entitled to 

 562 on the determination of a life interest. 



The Royal Portsmouth, Portsea, and Gosport 

 Hospital, Fitzherbert Street, Landport, which was 

 founded in 1849, was possessed in 1904, in addition 

 to its general funds, of various securities valued at 

 ,29,598, producing an annual income of 939, 

 arising from legacies and gifts of various donors, 

 including legacies by will of John Bass Eltham (1880) 

 and of Miss E. M. Scale (1884). 



Henry Wood, by will and codicil, proved 1887, 

 bequeathed contingently his residuary trust funds for 

 investment, and, subject to certain existing life inte- 

 rests, directed income to be applied in gifts of 15 to 

 poor persons born and resident in the borough of 

 Portsmouth, with a further trust for the above men- 

 tioned hospital. 



Mrs. Caroline Jones, by will, proved in 1883, left 

 1,000 in augmentation of the endowment of the 

 existing church of St. Mary's parish. The legacy 

 was invested in 973 3/. 5</. consols with the official 

 trustees. 



Mrs. Hannah Stokes, by will, proved in 1883, 

 directed her trustees to invest in consols such a sum 

 as would produce 3 a year to be applied in keeping 

 in order a tomb in the Portsmouth Cemetery, the 

 unapplied surplus thereof to be paid to the porter 

 residing at the lodge of the said cemetery. The 

 official trustees hold a sum of 100 consols in respect 

 of this charity. 



The following charities apply to Portsea : 



Edward Crafts, by his will, 1780, directed his 

 trustees to lay out certain securities in paying for the 

 schooling of as many poor boys as the interest would 

 allow to learn to read and write and arithmetic to 

 fit them for trades, subject as therein mentioned. In 

 1782 the minister and commissioners of St. George's 

 Chapel agreed to accept the charity, which became 

 attached to the schools in Kent Street, established by 

 the Portsea Beneficial Society. The endowment, 

 including a legacy of 50 consols given in augmenta- 

 tion by will of John Ring, proved in 1839, consists 

 of 1,000 consols held by the official trustees. 



By a scheme of the Board of Education, dated 

 21 September, 1905, trustees were appointed, and a 

 sum of 10 a year was directed to be paid to the 

 said school so long as it continued to be conducted as 

 a public elementary school, the residue of the income 

 in the maintenance of exhibitions equivalent to the 

 tuition fees, with 5 added at the discretion of the 

 trustees, tenable at secondary or technical schools in 

 Portsea, with a view to training the exhibitioners for 

 pupil teachers. 



Richard Wilmot, by will, proved in the P.C.C., 

 on 27 April, 1805, left certain securities as a per- 

 petual fund for educating boys in the knowledge of 

 the English language, writing, accounts, and naviga- 



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tion, with a preference for the sons of widows. The 

 endowment now consists of a messuage on the north 

 side of Trafalgar Buildings, Portsea, let at 13 a 

 year ; a messuage in Bow Street, let at l l i\s. and 

 388 4/. iJ. consols with the official trustees. By a 

 scheme of the Charity Commissioners of 20 March, 

 1894, the yearly income subject to the payment of 

 all outgoings is directed to be applied in the advance- 

 ment of the education of the sons of widows bonb JiJe 

 resident in the parish of Portsea, who are scholars in 

 the schools of the Portsea Beneficial Society, with a 

 preference to those who have shown aptitude for the 

 study of navigation, in granting prizes of from l to 

 5, and in the maintenance of exhibitions of 10 

 at the Portsmouth Grammar School, or any place of 

 higher education. 



Major Ebenezer Vavasour, by will, 1808, also left 

 to the said schools .100, represented by 92 8/. ^d. 

 consols, with the official trustees. 



The charity of Thomas Brewer, will 1666, con- 

 sists of zo/. a year charged on land in Buckland, los. 

 to be applied on St. Thomas's Day, and los. on 

 Good Friday. 



Eleanor Brewer's charity was instituted by her will, 

 d.ited 1667, bequeathing 40*. a year out of a close 

 called Bird's Close. 



William Sheppard, by will, proved in the P.C.C., 

 1798, left 100, interest to be applied on Whit 

 Monday in distribution of bread among four widowi 

 resident in the parish, invested in 102 6s. consols 

 with the official trustees. Claypitt, by will, 1848, 

 left 265 13*. 6J. consols upon the like trusts. 

 These charities are administered together by the vicar 

 and churchwardens. In 1904 an allowance of 2s. 

 each was made to eighty-six widows. 



Thomas Fitzherbert, by a codicil to his will, 1821, 

 directed that 10,000 stock should, after the deter- 

 mination of certain life interests, be applied in annui- 

 ties for five poor men and ten poor widows, and five 

 poor single women of the parish of Portsea of fifty 

 years and upwards. The Trust Fund, consisting of 

 10,350 consols, was transferred to the official trus- 

 tees, and was sold out on the 1 5 August, 1 906, and 

 re-invested in the following colonial securities, namely, 

 2,576 9/. New South Wales 3 per cent, stock ; 

 2,512 9/. "]d. New Zealand 3 per cents. ; 

 2,569 3*. 7</. Victoria Government 3 per cent, 

 consolidated stock ; and 2,613 8/. T,d. South 

 Australia 3 per cent, consolidated stock. The divi- 

 dends are applied in annuities of 15, payable 

 quarterly, to persons qualified under the trusts. 



Henry Moody, by will, proved 14 November, 

 1889, left 10,000 to the trustees of Thomas Fitz- 

 herbert's charity, income to be applied by them upon 

 similar trusts. The estate was administered in the 

 High Court (Chancery Division), and proved to be 

 insufficient to pay the legacies in full. By an order 

 of the court of 1 1 April, 1906, a sum of 3,691 is. "jd. 

 consols was transferred to the official trustees, in satis- 

 faction of the legacy. The stock was subsequently 

 sold out and re-invested in 1,858 13*. I d. Queens- 

 land Government 3 percent, stock, and 1,819 lzs - 2 ^- 

 Western Australia Government 3 per cents. The 

 two charities will be administered together. 



Aria College is an institution founded and endowed 

 by the will of the late Mr. Lewis Aria, for the train- 

 ing and maintaining therein of young men, natives 

 of Hampshire, as Jewish divines, up to twenty- 



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