The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-05-28 00:00:00

CHARITABLE BEQUESTS.

The remains of Mr. John Abbott, a well-known
and much-respected citizen of Halifax, were consigned
to the tomb on Friday, the 20th instant. Mr. Abbott
had attained the age of 74, and was a native of Halifax.
He was a bachelor. He had acquired a large fortune,
and has bequeathed ligacies amounting to more than
£60,000 to various: religious and charitable institutions.
In early and middle life he was a woolstapler. He re
tired from business many years ago, but he never
ceased to take an active interest in various local insti-
totions—religione, literary, scientific, educational, and
charitable. He was an active borough magistrate. He
had a literary and scientific taste. His father and the
father of the Crossley family were, early in the
century, partners in, and founders of what is now a
most important branch of industry in Halifax—the
carpet trade. Mr. Abbott was a teacher in the parish
church Sunday school at Halifax for 65 years, and
duels g that low: period he is never known to have been
absent from his class, twice every Sunday, except
when absent from home and the town. With one
exception, all his relations, it is said, are comparatively
poor persons, and his cousin, a working man, named
John Abbott, residing at Leeds. is residuary legatee.
The following is a summary of Mr. Abbott's legacies to
various institutions :

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£5OO to the Halifax Literary and Philosophical Society;
VP.) to the Halifax Town issiom ; £.500 to the Halifax
Ragged Schools; comet £l.OOO each to the Sunday schools
of the listahlished Church held within the parish of Halifax,
to the Sunday schools of the various Dissenters within the
narish of Halifax, to the Halifax Tradesmen's Benevolent
fli,clet the Camas Hospital, Loudon; the itallgloaa Toad

Society, the West Riding Beformatoty. the La.at an.. lOob
Institution at Doncaster the Y..rit School for the T 1 . to
Brantford Infirmary, and the Branford Nye mot Ear kie..nfli.ll
.Z2,oooeaelt to the Halifax lofitmary, the Manchester l; q
Infirmary, the Leeds Infirmary. the Liverpool School for the .
Blind, the Northern Counties Asylum for idiots (at Lancaster),
the Karlswood Idiot Asylums, the National Lifeboat Assoc',
Mon, the founding of schools or other charitable institutubs
for the benefit of the inhabitants of Lazenby, and the Society
, for Promoting Christian Knowledge; 8.3,000 to the British and
Foreign Bible Society; £4,000 to the Church Missionary
society £5,000 to the Ashley Down Orphanage, near Bristol;
£lO,OOO to the Crossley Orphanage, at Shircoat, Halifax ;
and £lO,OOO to be applied In founding three scholarshine at
the University of Oxford and two scholarships at the Uni-
versity of Cambridge; the earn of £2,000 being applicable to
each scholarship, and the scholarships to be called " the
Abbott Scholarships." The total thus bequeathed is CM, 50‘)
and, lai addition, Mr. Abbott has left £lOO for the benefit of
Tool Swift, a regular attendant at the pariah church b y's
Sunday school, and a good suit of clothes for each member
of the monitors' class and each one of the teachers tu the
same school.