Radcliffe, however, not only wrote little but also took a certain iconoclastic pride in having read little, remarking once of some vials of herbs and a skeleton in his study: “ This is Radcliffe ’ s library .” However, he bequeathed a substantial sum of money to Oxford for the founding of the Radcliffe Library, an endowment which, Samuel Garth quipped, was “ about as logical as if a eunuch should found a seraglio .”

During 1920, the Juilliard Foundation was created, named after textile merchant Augustus D. Juilliard, who bequeathed a substantial amount of money for the advancement of music in the United States.

She bequeathed to him her substantial collection of ceramic and porcelain buttons, which he integrated into his designs and presented in new collections.

Emperor Augustus bequeathed the Praetorian Guard a substantial sum in his will, but it was not until Tiberius ' reign that gifts of money were thought mandatory.

The latter bequeathed his substantial properties in Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire to his nephew the Hon.

In 1783, William Hunter bequeathed his substantial and varied collections to the University of Glasgow.

The latter was the fourth of the seven sons of Richard Lumley-Saunderson, 4th Earl of Scarbrough, and his wife Barbara, sister and heiress of the politician Sir George Savile, 8th and last Baronet, of Thornhill ( see Savile Baronets for more information on this title ), who bequeathed the substantial Savile estates in Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire ( including Rufford and Thornhill ) to his nephew the Hon.

The Earl bequeathed his substantial estates to his first cousin twice removed, the diplomat, politician and writer Sir Algernon Freeman-Mitford.

Orc and Tola, who had no children, enriched the monastery with a substantial amount of land, some of which was bequeathed after their deaths.

When opened the asylum was known as The Sheppard Asylum, though that name would change in 1896 to The Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital, after fellow Baltimore merchant Enoch Pratt bequeathed a substantial portion of his fortune to the project.

He bequeathed him the substantial sum of £ 1, 000 and made other bequests in his will.

The organisation was established in 1971 by the American businessman and philanthropist Mr. Daniel K. Ludwig, who bequeathed his entire international holdings-a substantial proportion of his estate-for the endowment of the Institute.

One spring day, Andy and Red and some other prisoners are tarring a roof when Andy overhears a particularly nasty guard griping over the amount of tax he will have to pay on a sum of money bequeathed to him by a long-estranged brother.

Some " unfree " gladiators bequeathed money and personal property to wives and children, possibly via a sympathetic owner or familia ; some had their own slaves and gave them their freedom.

" The paltry sum of money Knox bequeathed to his family, which would have left them in dire poverty, showed that he had not profited from his work in the Kirk.

He also bequeathed money for supporting his daughter and in the case that his daughter did not marry within five years, Catherine was to take £ 30 per annum out of the income to support her step-daughter.

Upon his death in 1887, he bequeathed much of his fortune for the people of Manchester, with the Whitworth Art Gallery and Christie Hospital partly funded by Whitworth's money.

In 1734, a local benefactor, Sir Henry Fermor bequeathed money for a church and charity school for the benefit of the " very ignorant and heathenish people " that lived in the part of Rotherfield " in or near a place called Crowborough and Ashdown Forest ".

Today, he is best known for the Pulitzer Prizes, which were established by money he bequeathed to Columbia University, as was the Columbia School of Journalism.

He bequeathed a sum of money to his old college for the foundation of a lectureship in English literature.

The Corcoran refused and Nesbitt bequeathed the money to the Phillips Collection instead.

The building was originally known as " Parkes ' Chapel " in honour of Mistress Dorothy Parkes who bequeathed the money for the church and also for a local school.

The company also founded two girls ' schools in Llandaff and Denbigh, Wales on behalf Welsh merchant Thomas Howell who bequeathed a sum of money to the foundation ; both schools are independent, separate institutions but the company has a representative in the governing bodies.

Peel Clothworkers ' School is a primary school on Derby Road, which was founded in the 17th century after Philip Christian, a successful expatriate Peel businessman, bequeathed a sum of money in his will to provide for the education of the children in Peel.

His father had bequeathed money specifically for his college education, after giving land to the other children for their occupations.

The Los Angeles Times reported that Schafer bequeathed two million dollars to the Motion Picture and Television Hospital ; the money was used to renovate the Hospital's outpatient wing, which was renamed the " Natalie Schafer Wing.

Shakespeare and Phillips bequeathed him money for mourning rings ; Nicholas Tooley and Alexander Cooke named him as trustee for their estates.

Although only boys were admitted to Bury Grammar when the school was founded, on the re-founding by Roger Kay in 1726 he bequeathed money specifically for girls, the bequest stating: " I charge my Estate called Warth in Ratcliff with the payment of £ 5 yearly in order that ten poor girls born or to be born in the parish and town of Bury might receive an education .... to make them perfect in reading The Bible, to teach them to write well and to be good accountants to fit them for Trades or to be good servants.

* Collyhill-named for Alexander Simpson of Collyhill who bequeathed a large sum of money to the school, which allowed for more boys to join the school.

On his death, Cely bequeathed money for making the steeple and an altar in the church.

The Corcoran refused and Nesbitt bequeathed the money to the Phillips Collection instead.

In 1854, Judah Touro bequeathed money to fund Jewish residential settlement in Palestine.

On his death in 1873, Johns Hopkins, a Quaker entrepreneur and childless bachelor, bequeathed $ 7 million ( Between $ 140 million to $ 1. 6 billion in 2011 dollars, by varying estimates ) to fund a hospital and university in Baltimore, Maryland.

The musical service, which was originally sung by the blind children only, was made fashionable by the generosity of George Frideric Handel, who frequently had Messiah performed there, and who bequeathed to the hospital a fair copy ( full score ) of his greatest oratorio.

A local public hospital bequeathed by the Berry family, the David Berry Hospital, now serves as a rehabilitation hospital and palliative care hospice.

In the year of his death, which took place on the 12 December 1611, he endowed a hospital on the site of the Charterhouse, calling it the hospital of King James ; and in his will he bequeathed moneys to maintain a chapel, hospital ( almshouse ) and school.

In 1745 Jonathan Swift, then Dean of St. Patrick's, bequeathed his entire estate to found a hospital for " fools and mad " and on August 8, 1746, a Royal Charter was granted to St. Patrick's Hospital by George II.

French baroque and classicism has bequeathed the city several buildings, among which the former hospital and the current town hall.

Noldo, Gherardini's father and Lisa's grandfather, had bequeathed a farm in Chianti to the Santa Maria Nuova hospital.

The hospital ( originally St. Patrick's Hospital for Imbeciles ) was founded in 1747 with money bequeathed by Jonathan Swift following his death in 1745.

The hospital was founded in 1890 when Mrs. Helen Finley bequeathed her estate towards the founding of a hospital in memory of her husband Dr. John Finley.

After her death, Williams bequeathed most of her monetary assets, which amounted to nearly $ 287, 000, to charitable institutions such as The McKinley Industrial Home for Boys, the Motion Picture Relief Fund, and to an orthopedic and children's hospital.