A HISTORY OF SURREY 



In 1 892 the Hon. Algernon Gray Tollemache, 

 by will and codicil, proved at London 1 2 February, 

 gave 500 to the poor. This sum was augmented 

 by gifts of 100 each from his widow the Hon. 

 Frances Louisa Tollemache and the Earl of Dysart. 

 The fund was in 704 91. gJ. consols in the names 

 of the Rt. Hon. Baron Sudeley and others, the trus- 

 tees appointed under the will, who by indenture, 

 dated 2 March 1894, directed that the income should 

 be applied in or towards the support of a sick 

 nurse. 



The Hon. Frances Louisa Tollemache also founded 

 six almshouses in memory of her late husband, by deed, 

 1 6 November 1892, for the accommodation of nine 

 inmates, and endowed the same with 16,000, which 

 is now invested in certain British and Colonial securi- 

 ties, producing an annual income of 490. Each of 

 the single inmates receives js. 6d. a week, and each 

 married couple (of whom there may be three) 1 3*. f>d. a 

 week. The surplus income is applied in out pensions 

 and in subscriptions to various local institutions. A 



scholarship of 10 a year is also granted to a boy or 

 girl at the Ham National Schools. 



HAMLET OF HOOK. 



In 1859 Anne Greene, by a codicil to her will 

 proved at London 8 September, directed that the 

 interest on a sum of 200 should be applied in a 

 dinner to the poor on Christmas Day, or in gifts of 

 5/. each at Christmas to poor widows, or in appren- 

 ticing poor boys and girls, as the incumbent and 

 churchwardens should think fit. Owing to a de- 

 ficiency of assets a sum of 101 ijs. zd. consols only 

 was received in satisfaction of the legacy. The divi- 

 dends, amounting to 2 l is. per annum, are distri- 

 buted in sums of 5/. to ten poor widows. 



In 1888 William Mercer, by deed, dated 25 April 

 1888, settled a sum of Si 131. lod. consols upon 

 trust that the income should be applied in the repair and 

 maintenance of the church of St. Paul, Hook, and for 

 the services thereof. 



The sums of stock are held by the official trustees. 



LONG DITTON 



Ditune (xi cent.). 



Long Ditton is a village one and a half m les south- 

 west of Kingston. It was at the time of the Domes- 

 day Survey in Kingston Hundred. There was a 

 church there then, and it may have been already 

 parochially distinct from Kingston. In the grant of 

 Kingston and Long Ditton churches to Merton 



Priory, soon after the foundation in ill 7,' Long 

 Ditton was not included among the chapelries of 

 Kingston which are enumerated. The parish is 

 divided into two parts, Long Ditton proper and 

 Talworth (q.v.), with a strip of Kingston parish, the 

 hamlet of Hook, intervening. The western portion, 

 which contains the village of Long Ditton, abuts on 



LONG DITTON RECTORY FROM THE SOUTH-WEST 



1 Dugdalc, Man Angl. vi, 425 ; Plac. Coram Rege, 7 Edw. I. 

 516 



