Western Times: Wednesday 13th May 1908

Chudleigh Charities: Baptists’ Position Concerning the New Schools: Mr. G. G. Phillmore held an enquiry at the Town Hall on Tuesday, at 10.30 a.m. There was much interest centered in the enquiry respecting the right of the Devon Baptist Association Corporation Ltd., to dispose of certain buildings to the Devon County Education Authority, to wit, the Chudleigh British Schools … (listing of other Chudleigh charities, includes) …  John Williams’s charity, L. 1079 12s 5d, 3 percent annuities; East Church charity, for the proving of Bibles of Good Books to the school children; Pinsent Grammar School and Play Park 1667, endowed from an estate called “Coombe,” Surrey; W. Hays’s charity, L. 500, interest of which provides 45 old people with 4s worth of coal and 1s worth of bread at Christmas time.

[see also Western Times: Friday 15th May 1908]


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