In 1937 Yale University became the home for a sizable collection of Abbey's works, the result of a bequest from Abbey's widow.

An account of the " Osler bequest ", a collection of Withering's letters

The archaeology department includes the bequest of Arthur Evans and so has an excellent collection of Greek and Minoan pottery.

This bequest forms part of the finest collection of East Asian pottery and porcelain in the world, including Kakiemon ware.

Several French paintings entered the collection as part of the 260 paintings and miniatures ( not all the works were French, for example Carlo Crivelli's Virgin and Child ) that formed part of the Jones bequest of 1882 and as such are displayed in the galleries of continental art 1600-1800, including the portrait of François, Duc d ' Alençon by François Clouet, Gaspard Dughet and works by François Boucher including his portrait of Madame de Pompadour dated 1758, Jean François de Troy, Jean-Baptiste Pater and their contemporaries.

The name refers ultimately to the Fitzwilliam family, prominent members of the Anglo-Irish nobility, whose ancestral seat Milton Hall is located to the north of Cambridge and who, as students and benefactors, have been associated with the university for several hundred years ; more directly, it refers to the Fitzwilliam Museum, founded in 1816 with the bequest of the library, art collection and personal fortune of the 7th Viscount Fitzwilliam and situated directly opposite the original headquarters of the Non-Collegiate Students Board, and also to the adjacent Fitzwilliam Street, where many of the non-collegiate students were housed.

Numerous bequests have enriched the Museum's holdings, such as the outstanding collection of medals left to the Museum by Pablo Bosch ; the drawings and items of decorative art left by Pedro Fernández Durán as well as Van der Weyden's masterpiece, The Virgin and Child ; and the Ramón de Errazu bequest of 19th-century paintings.

( Two of these glass paintings are in the collection of the Columbus Museum of Art, part of the bequest of modernist collector Ferdinand Howald.

The collection was begun in 1376 and much improved by a bequest from Matthew Parker, the college's Master between 1544 and 1553, who as Archbishop of Canterbury formed a fine collection of manuscripts from the libraries of dissolved monasteries.

John Jacob Astor III continued the charitable works made by his ancestors to the Metropolitan Museum of Art ( in 1887 he presented it with his wife's collection of costly laces and left a bequest of $ 50, 000 ), Trinity Church ( with his brother he presented as a memorial to their father a sculptured reredos and altar costing $ 80, 000 ), and the Astor Library ( he left a bequest of $ 450, 000, bringing the family benefactions to the institution up to about to $ 1, 500, 000 ).

The museum was founded in 1816 with the bequest of the library and art collection of the 7th Viscount FitzWilliam.

It is named after Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull ( 1868 – 1918 ), whose bequest to the nation included the 55, 000 volume nucleus of the current collection.

Brundage continued to make donations to the museum, including the bequest of all his remaining personal collection of Asian art on his death in 1975.

The art collection at the Institute was begun by its founder, Samuel Courtauld, who presented an extensive collection of mainly French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings in 1932, which was enhanced by further gifts in the 1930s and a bequest in 1948.

Soon after ( in 1967 ), the bequest of Dr. William Wycliffe Spooner ( 1882 – 1967 ) and his wife Mercie, added strength to the Gallery's collection of English watercolors by contributing works by J. R. Cozens and Francis Towne.

A condition of the bequest was that no object ever leave the collection, even for loan exhibitions.

In 1973 the collection was increased further by the acquisition of part of the Sir Henry Wellcome Collection, and by the bequest of Colonel J. R. Danson in 1976, which included more material from Amarna and from Garstang ’ s excavations at Abydos.

A collection of his letters circulated in the mid-12th century, part of a bequest made to Bec Abbey in 1164 by Philip de Harcourt, the Bishop of Bayeux, but it is now lost.

In 2006, a bequest allowed Derby Libraries to purchase a collection that had been amassed by Bateman by inserting documents he had found into the four volumes of Lysons Magna Britannia, Derbyshire.

More recently there is the Lloyd collection of Japanese metalwork, carvings and ceramics: these were the bequest of R. W. Lloyd who was also a benefactor of the entomological department.

In the next forty years four important benefactions were made: first in 1912 from William Smith Churchill ( European coins of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries ); in 1925 William Smith Ogden's collection of antiquities, including large collections of Greek and Roman coins, was presented to the Museum ; in 1939 Egbert Steinthal, honorary keeper of the coin room, presented his collection of English copper coins ; and in 1958 came the bequest from Harold Raby of a magnificent collection of Greek and Roman coins.

He added to the bequest of his father for the Astor Library the sum of $ 250, 000, of which he paid during his lifetime $ 201, 000 in land, books, and money.

The bequest included all the original bookcases and his elaborate instructions that placement of the books "... be strictly reviewed and, where found requiring it, more nicely adjusted ".

Under the terms of the bequest, none of the books may be sold, and no additional ones may be added to the library.

William Charleton, in a bequest in 1702, gave Sloane numerous books of birds, fish, flowers, and shells and his miscellaneous museum consisting of curiosities, miniatures, insects, medals, animals, minerals, precious stones and curiosities in amber.

Besides this bequest, the library received $ 10, 000 for the purchase of books from his son, John Jacob Astor III, in February 1876.

Harvard's library system grew from a bequest in 1638 by John Harvard of 400 books.

Any donation, bequest, or gift received under the subsection is to be deposited into a separate fund on the books of the United States Department of the Treasury.

From July 2006-January 2007 there was an exhibition at the British Museum of Arikha's bequest to it of one hundred prints and drawings.

In 1763 he became a member of the Venetian Academy, but Zuccarelli was soon induced to journey back to London in 1765 by his friend Algarotti's bequest of a cameo and group of drawings made to Lord Chatham.

But, her will was invalidated by Parlement in 1274 One specific bequest in Alphonse's will, giving his wife's lands in the Comtat Venaissin to the Holy See, was allowed, and it became a Papal territory, a status that it retained until 1791.

Another memorial, the Nile Clumps near Amesbury, are stands of beech trees purportedly planted by Lord Queensbury at the bequest of Lady Hamilton and Thomas Hardy after Nelson's death.

Franks, was followed by an immense bequest of 3, 300 finger rings, 153 drinking vessels, 512 pieces of continental porcelain, 1, 500 netsuke, 850 inro, over 30, 000 bookplates and miscellaneous items of jewellery and plate, among them the Oxus Treasure.

However, with the 1991 publication of The Destiny of The Mother Church by the late Bliss Knapp, the church secured a $ 90 million bequest from the Knapp trust.

His uncle, Peter Gansevoort, by a bequest, paid for the publication of the massive epic in 1876.

The La Caze Collection, a bequest to the Musée du Louvre in 1869 by Louis La Caze was the largest contribution of a person in the history of the Louvre.

Nevertheless, the Biblioteca Marciana traditionally claimed this bequest as its founding, although it was in fact founded by Cardinal Bessarion in 1468.

It was purchased by the Museum from William Cavendish-Bentinck, 7th Duke of Portland in 1945 with the aid of a bequest from James Rose Vallentin.

The paintings were left to Kew by the artist and a condition of the bequest is that the layout of the paintings in the gallery may not be altered.

* The Latymer School and Latymer Upper School in London are founded by the bequest of Edward Latymer.

Of his fortune ( estimated at $ 7, 000, 000 ) approximately $ 4, 000, 000 was bequeathed for the establishment and maintenance of a free public library and reading-room in the City of New York ; but, as the will was successfully contested by relatives, only about $ 3, 000, 000 of the bequest was applied to its original purpose ; in 1895, the Tilden Trust was combined with the Astor and Lenox libraries to found the New York Public Library, whose building bears his name on its front.

* In the 19th century, there was dispute over the acquisitions made with the Chantrey bequest and accusations that favouritism resulted in the purchase of dull work by Royal Academicians

The hexagonal, tall, market cross in the town centre dates back to a bequest of £ 20 by Walter Buckland in 1520, and was rebuilt in 1841.

The London School of Economics was founded in 1895 by Beatrice and Sidney Webb, initially funded by a bequest of £ 20, 000 from the estate of Henry Hunt Hutchinson.

In 1927, Childe was offered the newly created post of Abercromby Professor of Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, so named after the Scottish prehistorian Lord John Abercromby, who had established it by deed in his bequest to the university.

Edward Burne-Jones designed the grand piano in 1883 that was part of the Ionides's bequest, built by Broadwood and Sons, of stained oak decorated with gold and silver-gilt gesso.

Although some of Constable's works came to the museum with the Sheepshanks bequest, the majority of the artist's works were donated by his daughter Isabel in 1888, including the large number of sketches in oil, the most significant being the 1821 full size oil sketch for The Hay Wain.

He specified in his will that should his bequest be refused by Hampstead ( presumably on grounds of propriety ) the painting was then to be offered to Coventry.

In 1999, the community received a $ 23 million bequest from the Gilmore and Golda Reynolds Foundation, which was established by two lifelong Osgood residents to assist the town government as well as local non-profit organizations.

St. Mary's Church, Cavendish, benefited from a large bequest made by Sir John and had its chancel refurbished.