Pensions for Middle-Class People: A Dudley Ironmaster’s Bequest: The executors the will dated 5th December 1899, of Mr. Henry Persehouse Parkes of Daresbury, Malvern, J.P., and of Henry Persehouse Parkes and Co., Limited, Dudley, ironmaster, who died 17th May last, aged 69 year, and whose estate has been valued £63,905 1s, 1d, gross, with net personalty of the value of £58,620 15s. 6d. are Harold Smith, of Coventry; Alfred W. Hickman, of Wolverhampton; and Richard Alfred Pinsent, of Birmingham. After the payment of various legacies and small annuities, the ultimate residue of the testator’s estate to be in trust to found the “Perehouse Pensions” for aged and distressed persons of the middle and upper classes resident for ten years in the counties of Stafford or Worcester.
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GRO0738 Devonport: Richard Alfred Pinsent: 1852 – 1948