Wills

Sir Denis Charles Barnes, of Wittersham, Kent, permanent secretary at the Department of Employment 1968-73 and the first chairman of the Manpower Services Commission 1974-75, left estate valued at pounds 55,634 net.

Mr Basil Henry Green, of Harbury, Warwickshire, left estate valued at pounds 1,063,073 net.

Mr Henry Leslie Johnson, of Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, left estate valued at pounds 1,477,196 net.

Mr Arthur John Keene, of Ilford, Essex, left estate valued at pounds 1,111,037 net.

Miss Mary Frances Rouse Boughton, of Ludlow, Shropshire, left estate valued at pounds 2,966,718 net.

Mr Edward William Stratford, of Clapham, Bedfordshire, left estate valued at pounds 1,846,689 net. After personal bequests of pounds 15,000 and half the total residue, he left half the residue to the Barbara Bus Fund at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore, Middlesex.