Two spinsters leave £27m to charity
Howard Lake | 9 June 2000 | News
Two elderly spinsters who lived quietly in London, helping to clean at their local Catholic church, have left £27m in their wills to charity
Two elderly spinsters who lived quietly in London, helping to clean at their local Catholic church, have left £27m in their wills to charity.
Friends had no idea of Mary ‘Kathleen’ Coyle and Florence Reakes’ wealth, which was pledged to the Albert Hunt Trust. The interest on the trust’s capital, which now stands at £35m, is distributed to 350 small charities working with the homeless and the young.
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