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RNLI receives unusual bequest
Howard Lake | 8 October 2000 | News
The RNLI is to receive just over half the estate of the late Cynthia Watson which will be worth over £1 million, enough to help the charity to buy a new lifeboat. All bequests often carry an interesting personal story, but this one is more unusual than most.
The RNLI is to receive just over half the estate of the late Cynthia Watson which will be worth over £1 million, enough to help the charity to buy a new lifeboat. All bequests often carry an interesting personal story, but this one is more unusual than most.
According to Steve Bird writing in The Times, the publication of the will revealed that the late Cynthia Watson was, unbeknownst to most friends and neighbours, in fact the late Peter Acke.
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Edward Wakewalker of the RNLI did well in discussing the unusual circumstances of the donation with The Times, discreetly balancing his “he or she” and “his or her.” “It’s a shame in some ways” said Mr Wakewalker, “that we don’t know more about Cynthia or Peter and his or her background.”
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Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.