Definition, Betydelse & Synonymer | Engelska ordet BEQUEST

Definition av BEQUEST

1. arv, legat, testamente, testamentarisk gåva

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• An emblematic character of the Age of Absolutism in Europe, Louis XIV's legacy is widely characterized by French colonial expansion, the conclusion of Eighty Years' War involving the Habsburgs, and his architectural bequest, marked by commissioned works of art and buildings.
• His brother's steward, constable, and chancellor remained in office, and William confirmed Malcolm IV's last bequest to Dunfermline Abbey.
• The Lenkiewicz Foundation (educational charity) was established in 1997, received the bequest of the painter's remaining collection of works.
• A bequest from an uncle in 1889 gave the young Scott ownership of Hollis Street Farm, near Ninfield, Sussex, with a life tenancy to his mother.
• In 1999, the community received a $23 million bequest from the Gilmore and Golda Reynolds Foundation, which was established by two lifelong Osgood residents to assist the town government as well as local non-profit organizations.
• That year Hayes announced his uncle Sardis Birchard's bequest in his will, donating property in his estate worth $50,000 to the City Council in order to establish a public library.
• From 1857 to 1873 when it was relocated to Warminster, Emlen Institute, a boarding school for orphaned African American and Native American children established by a bequest from Samuel Emlen Jr.
• By his will he left his interest in the property to his agent Robert McCausland “as an acknowledgment for the faithful service he has done me”, and the bequest allowed the McCauslands to establish themselves as county gentry.
• The founding of the law department came two years after the establishment of Harvard's first endowed professorship in law, funded by a bequest from the estate of wealthy slave-owner Isaac Royall Jr.
• Following a bequest of approximately £20,000 made by the merchant Robert Aske to the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers on his death in 1689, an almshouse for twenty needy members of the Haberdashers' Company was established in 1690 just outside the City of London at Hoxton.
• The hospital's founding in 1889 was made possible from a philanthropic bequest of over $7 million by city merchant, banker, financier, civic leader, and philanthropist Johns Hopkins, which at the time was the largest bequest in the history of the United States.
• January 7 – The death of the Icelandic scholar Árni Magnússon activates the bequest to the University of Copenhagen in Denmark of the Arnamagnæan Manuscript Collection, which he has assembled.
• In 1752 Richard Heber received the manor and estate of Hodnet Hall in Shropshire as a bequest from a cousin of his wife.
• The school was founded using a bequest by William Ward, a merchant of Brixton, in 1881 and opened in Carmelite Street in 1894.
• Extending to 631ha, it is owned and managed by the National Trust following the Bankes bequest of the Kingston Lacy estate.
• It was founded on a bequest from Lady Mary Sadleir for lectureships "for the full and clear explication and teaching that part of mathematical knowledge commonly called algebra".
• Stevens' bequest totaled a city block's worth of land, $150,000 for the construction of a building, and a $500,000 endowment.
• After receiving at $300,000 bequest, Kenrick was able to stabilize the diocesan finances through some shrewd real estate dealings.
• Charities pay a fee to FreeWill to have the charity's name included in the software, and receive reports of the name, address, assets, and planned bequest for each donor who agrees.
• Downing College acquired the land as a result of a bequest in the will of Sir George Downing, who lived in a mansion, Gamlingay Park, on his Gamlingay estate.

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