In the decades after its foundation the abbey was the recipient of considerable endowments, as seen from the dedication of 26 altars donated by individual benefactors and guilds and it was an important centre of pilgrimage after Dunfermline became a centre for the cult of St Margaret ( Malcolm's wife and David's mother ), from whom the monastery later claimed foundation and for which an earlier foundation charter was fabricated.

Luckily, Wellington Chapman donated $ 18, 000, a considerable sum at the time, to the railroad to secure a rail line through Chesaning.

The European-American town dates from circa 1840, when the Frank Estill family, which owned considerable property in the area, donated a right-of-way for railroad construction.

The United States oil tycoon Edward Doheny reportedly donated considerable funds for the Cathedral's construction and maintenance after 1902, when he based his Mexican oil operations near Tampico.

Moreover, considerable parts of the Trail are repurposed defunct rail lines donated to provincial governments by CP and CN rail rebuilt as walking trails.

The third Earl of Buckingham donated the land for the church and neighbouring rectory, together with a considerable amount of land around it, to the Augustinian Abbey of Notley near Long Crendon in Buckinghamshire.

A considerable sum was donated for the benefit of the families of those who had died, but the funds were mostly spent on two large memorials in Margate.

He loaned his considerable fortune to the British Government and donated large amounts of his film salaries to help with the British war effort.

As a landowner with considerable holdings on the island of Manhattan ( especially in the vicinity of Chatham Square ), he donated land for the use of schools, churches, and charities in the area.

He also donated considerable funds to right-wing political organizations and candidates, including the World Anti-Communist League ( WACL ) which was later headed by Dr. Roger Pearson who had received extensive funding from The Pioneer Fund and Draper during his career at Southern Mississippi University.

On behalf of her first husband considerable funds were donated to his alma mater, Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

He earned his nickname, " Bacon Priest " () due to his appeals to Flemish farmers for contributions of food for the German refugees, appeals which met with considerable amounts of meat being donated.

He gave paintings to many British galleries and he donated considerable sums to repair and expand several galleries and museums.

In 1551, he donated his considerable library to the public.

In 1965, Nora Hagen donated a considerable amount of land in Sherman Township to Glen Oaks and, soon after, Glen Oaks was approved by the state as a credible institution authorized to provide college courses to students.

Bill Gates already had a considerable interest in biotechnology, both as a philanthropist and as an investor, and after meeting Hood, donated $ 12 million dollars to UW to enable him to head a new department of molecular biotechnology, where Hood continues to hold a faculty position as the Gates Professor of Molecular Biotechnology.

The building was built with considerable donated labor from the fall of 1899 until it was dedicated on August 24, 1907 by LDS Church President Joseph F. Smith.

He was President and Governor of the Fraser Institute Free Public Library ; vice-president of the Victorian Order of Nurses, Governor of McGill University ( to which he donated one of his more considerable sums ) and Governor of the Montreal General Hospital.

The new building known as, Foo Hee Lim Block, which was named after the late Foo Hee Lim after the estate donated a considerable sum to the school, was completed in June 2007 with the English, Economics, Business Studies, Bridging and Art departments being housed in this new block.

The new building known as, Foo Hee Lim Block, which was named after the late Foo Hee Lim after the estate donated a considerable sum to the school, was completed in June 2007 with the English, Economics, Business Studies, Bridging and Art departments being housed in this new block.

In 1957 he donated considerable sums to Thailand ’ s Hokkien clan association to build overseas Chinese schools.

He also donated large sums of money to Dunfermline, the place of his birth.

Generous sums of money were also donated by Brojendra Kishore Roy Choudhury, Maharaja Suryya Kanto Acharya Choudhury and Rashbihari Ghosh, who was appointed the first president of the university.

Even the name is inspired by Eiffel ; the Sather Tower is a recognizable landmark at Berkeley, named after Peder Sather who donated large sums to the foundation of the university.

His contacts included such diverse and well-known personages as Andrew Carnegie, William Howard Taft, John D. Rockefeller, Henry Huttleston Rogers, George Eastman, Julius Rosenwald, Robert Ogden, Collis Potter Huntington and William Henry Baldwin Jr., who donated large sums of money to agencies such as the Jeanes and Slater Funds.

He was buried in the church of St Michael Paternoster Royal, to which he had donated large sums during his lifetime.

However, Union Pacific Railroad president E. H. Harriman donated land as well as large sums of money for the purchase of properties in the area of Bear Mountain.

The Reuters donated substantial sums to charity.

He donated lavish sums to the YMCA, and in his hometown of Fort Wayne, Indiana, he was a trustee of the YMCA College there and of the Congregational Church.

Over the past two decades, it has been common that UC Regents appointees have donated relatively large sums of money either directly to the Governor's election campaigns or indirectly to party election groups.

" A number of local firms donated sums of money to cover the cost of maintenance and operation.

When the whole school assembled in the Great Hall for the official opening of the new staircase, the invited guests included people who donated large sums of money to help get the project on its way and some of the OBs, including John Pople, who have supported the school over the years of.

The Danish underground took an active role in organizing the rescue and providing financing, mostly from wealthy Danes who donated large sums of money to the endeavour.

Hans Rausing and his wife Märit have donated large sums to charities and research in the UK and Sweden, among others to large medical research projects at Karolinska Institutet and Lund University.

Souter has also been politically active in Scotland, having donated large sums to the Scottish National Party.

Swift donated large sums of money to such institutions as the University of Chicago, the Methodist Episcopal Church, and the Young Men's Christian Association ( YMCA ).

After it was reported that Sievey had died virtually penniless and was facing a " pauper's funeral " provided by state grants, a grassroots movement on various social networking websites quickly rallied round and donated significant sums to help out with the costs, raising £ 6, 500 in a matter of hours.

James Ellsworth was vitally interested in polar exploration and donated vast sums of money to Roald Amundsen's expedition to the North Pole in 1925, in which Lincoln was a pilot.

Poole also discovers that his father regularly donated large sums of money to an organisation called the " Puissant Order of Holy Mary Queen of Virgins ".

Woodward, for instance, became president of the Washington City YMCA in 1898, and donated significant sums of money for the renovation of its facilities.

Taubman has donated large sums to the University of Michigan, and many buildings there are named after him, including the A. Alfred Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building, the Taubman Health Sciences Library and Taubman Health Care Center.

He established the Ministerial Fund for Scientific Purposes in 1886 for this reason ; through the fund, he annually donated substantial sums anonymously to the University.