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Pilgrim Trust

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Pilgrim Trust

From their website: "Our aim is to preserve and promote Britain’s historical and intellectual assets and to provide assistance to vulnerable members of society."

Edward Stephen Harkness provided the Trust with an endowment of £2m and a very vague specification for its use.

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Pilgrim Trust

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King George V Jubilee at Westminster School

Below the lion's head roundel are 5 nozzles.  We were there on an extremely h...

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Silver Jubilee - Montague Close

This monument, built with the aid of funds donated by the Pilgrim Trust, was ...

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Other Subjects

Douglas Macmillan

Douglas Macmillan

Civil servant and charity founder. Born at 12 Cunnock Terrace, Castle Cary, Somerset. The death of his father from cancer inspired him to found the Society for the Prevention and Relief of Cancer, ...

Person, Benefactor, Politics & Administration

2 memorials
Eva Strasburger

Eva Strasburger

Daughter to Christopher and Irene Turner which explains her being born Tanzania and brought up in other exotic places. She co-founded a publishing company with Roy Strasburger in Southern England b...

Group, Benefactor, Politics & Administration, Africa, USA

1 memorial
Benjamin Hopkin Morris

Benjamin Hopkin Morris

Middlesex County Councillor. Born Merthyr, Glamorgan. Left money in his will to repair the Chiswick almhouses which were then named in his memory. He was clearly a wealthy man: at Have Your Say Ho...

Person, Benefactor, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Marguerite Nabers "Wita" Harbert

Marguerite Nabers "Wita" Harbert

Marguerite Nabers Jones was born on 24 May 1923 in Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama, USA, the younger child of Raymond McAdoo Jones (1889-1955) and Marguerite Jones née Nabers (1894-1987). Her...

Person, Benefactor, Philanthropy, USA

1 memorial
Jessica Turner

Jessica Turner

Known as Bill. Donated many of her sister's and father's sculptural works to public institutions. From V&A: while her sister studied sculpture Jessica "was content to assist her father". The a...

Person, Benefactor

1 memorial