Wills

Sir Richard Oswald Chandler Norman, Rector of Exeter College, Oxford, and founder Professor of Chemistry at York University 1965-87, left estate valued at pounds 377,868 net.

Sir Philip Shelbourne, of Salisbury, Wiltshire, former chairman of Britoil, left estate valued at pounds 3,055,902 net.

Air Marshal Sir David William Richardson, former Chief Engineer of the RAF, left estate valued at pounds 176,210 net.

Mr Robert James Adley, of London SW1, Conservative MP for Christchurch and Lymington, left estate valued at pounds 275,871 net.

Professor Frederick William Spiers, of Bramhope, West Yorkshire, Professor of Medical Physics at Leeds University 1950-72, left estate valued at pounds 439,544 net.

Professor Albert Louis Latner, of Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne, Emeritus Professor of Clinical Biochemistry at Newcastle University, left estate valued at pounds 392,104 net. He left pounds 5,000 each to the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, and the British Friends of the Hebrew University, London.

Mr Cyril Ernest Hett, of East Harting, West Sussex, left estate valued at pounds 2,157,933 net.

Mr Arthur John Ryder, of London NW8, left estate valued at pounds 1,988,120 net.

Ms Mary Crawfurd Bradley, of Sevenoaks, Kent, left estate valued at pounds 1,392,763 net.

Mr Leslie Samuel Cohen, of London W1, left estate valued at pounds 1,711,005 net.

Ms Mary Crawfurd Bradley, of Sevenoaks, Kent, left estate valued at pounds 1,392,763 net.

Mr Stanley Reginald Northover, of Almondsbury, Avon, left estate valued at pounds 1,131,156 net.

Mr Ada Burdall, of Calver, Derbyshire, left estate valued at pounds 3,163,135 net.

Mr Thomas Patrick Allen Ringer, of West Rudham, Norfolk, left estate valued at pounds 2,530,646 net.

Mrs Iris Luise Burgers, of Torquay, Devon, left estate valued at pounds 1,176,361 net. After personal bequests of pounds 100,000, she left pounds 5,000 to the South Devon Animal Shelter, Totnes, and a quarter of the residue each to the Imperial Cancer Research Fund and the Arthritis and Rheumatism Council; and a tenth of the residue each to the Distressed Gentlefolk's Aid Association, Guide Dogs for the Blind Association, RNIB, RNLI and Home Farm Trust.

Diana Rose Campbell, of Hamble, Hampshire, left estate valued at pounds 300,689 net. After personal bequests of pounds 90,000, she left the residue to the Seamanship Foundation, c/o the Royal Yachting Association, Eastleigh, for the purchase and maintenance of Challenger Trimarans.