Bomi Rustomji Bulsara, Freddie Mercury’s father, of Mapperley, Nottingham, left estate valued at £1,708,773 net.
He left his estate mostly to relatives; he also left £25,000 to the Mercury Phoenix Trust and £10,000 to the Zoroastrian Trust Funds of Europe.
Robert Alan Monkhouse, of Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, left estate valued at £1,398,698 net.
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He left his estate mostly to relatives; he also left £10,000 to the Michael Elliott Trust and his “gag books, specifically the two loose-leaf handwritten files and the eight loose-leaf typewritten files in their pilot cases and all the copyright therein” to Colin John Edmonds.
Winsome Joy Harding (Sister Joseph Harding), of London N4, left estate valued at £835,558 net.
She left her estate to the Diocese of Westminster “to hold in trust for the black community of Hackney, Haringey, Islington and Tower Hamlet”.
Helen Landau, of Meopham, Kent, left estate valued at £2,214,105 net.
She left shares in her estate to Ellenor Foundation Limited, Lions Hospice and Kent Air Ambulance Trust; she also left £2,000 to Blue Cross Animal Welfare Charity, and £1,000 each to British Red Cross Society, RSPCA and Salvation Army.
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Cynthia Joyce Rattenbury, of Barnstaple, Devon, left estate valued at £903,499 net.
She left shares in her estate to Emmanuel Hospital Association European Fellowship, St Stephen’s Society (Hong Kong), Benny Hinn Ministries (London), World Vision UK, Kenneth Copeland Ministries (Bath), and God Digital (TV Channel); she also left £5,000 each to The Good News Crusade and St Paul’s Church, Sticklepath and £500 to North Devon Hospice.
Marjorie Ethel Reeves, of Oxford, left estate valued at £1,685,013 net.
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She left a number of rare books by Joachim of Fiore to St Anne’s College, Oxford; papers concerning the Saffery family and the Baptist Church to Angus Library, Regents Park College, Oxford; family papers and family books to Bodleian Library. She also left £5,000 each to the University Church of St Mary the Virgin, St Hugh’s College Oxford; £2,000 each to Save the Children and Oxfam; and £1,000 each to the House of St Gregory and St Macrina, Intermediate Technology, Voluntary Services Overseas, Shelter, and Amnesty International.
Dorothy Horler, of Weston-super-Mare, North Somerset, left estate valued at £1,140,358 net.
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She left £10,000 each to Arthritis and Rheumatism Council for Research, British Diabetic Association, Save the Children Fund, Chest Heart and Stroke Association, wateraid, Salvation Army, NSPCC, RNLI, Age Concern England and Weston Hospicecare; £5,000 to Weston Area Health Trust; and £300 to Christchurch, Montpellier, Weston-super-Mare.