WICKERSLEY:
Wickersley Charities
from Endowed Charities W.R. Yorkshire and Sheffield,
Vol 1 1897, Volume 1 - (Southern Division)
p. 936 Wickersley - pp. 936-940
The Inquiry was held on the 29th October 1894 in the Infants' Schoolroom at
Wickersley.
There were present - The Rev. Frederick Freeman, the rector; Mr. John
Thomas Bell, and J. Trickett, churchwardens; Mr. George Turner, caretaker
of the museum; and Messrs. James Cavill, Albert Street; J.Osborn; Alfred
Baker; W. E. Wild; W. H. Roddis; J. G. Young; and others.
p. 938 Wickersley - Mrs Yates's Charity for the Christian Institute
By her will dated 4th April1882, and proved in London 31st May 1889,
Amelia Mary Yates of Rotherham, widow, bequeathed all the furniture and
fittings (with the exception of the books) in and about the Wickersley
Christian Institute, and also the objects in the museum attached to and
forming part of the said Institute, to the treasurer for the time being thereof
to be held by him upon trust for the purposes of the said Institute.
The testatrix further directed her executors to purchase or set apart and
appropriate in their names the sum of £3,000 in 3% annuities, and to stand
possessed thereof upon trust so long as the said Wickersley Christian
Institute at Rotherham should continue to be maintained and carried on for
the same or like purposes as those for which it was then maintained and
carried on, to pay the annual dividends and income arising from the Consols
to the treasurer for the time being of the said Institute, to be applied by him
for and towards the support, maintenance, and management thereof, in any
way which the said income might lawfully be applied for such purposes and
not otherwise. And she directed that in case and whenever the said Institute
should cease to be maintained and carried on for the same or the like
purposes for which it was then maintained and carried on, then her
executors should stand possessed of the said Consols upon trust to transfer
the same in equal thirds to the treasurers of the British and Foreign Bible
Society, the Church Missionary Society, and the London Female Preventive
and Reformatory Institution respectively, for the benefit of those
institutions.
The Wickersley Christian Institute was established on the 3rd December
1862 in a building erected by him for the purpose by Mrs Yates's late
husband, Dr. Holt Yates, owner in fee of the Wickersley estate "for the
promotion of useful knowledge among the working classes." Dr. Yates
never parted with the ownership of the building, and it is now vested in Mr.
William Holt Yates Titcomb, who is tenant for life of the Wickersley estate
under the will of Dr. Yates.
Owing to certain legal difficulties experienced by Mrs Yates's executors
relative to the bequest of the £3,000 Consols, it was thought necessary to
commence an action in the High Court of Justice, Chancery Division, of In
re Yates deceased, Grierson v Titcomb and others (1890 Y. 488) The action
was heard in Chambers on the 28th July 1890, when Mr. Justice Chitty,
ordered that the income of the £3,000 Consols should be paid to the
treasurer of the Institute, subject to the conditions expressed in the will: that
the executors should bring the Consols into Court, and that so much thereof
should be sold out and paid to the executors as would reimburse them £294-
15s-0d duty paid by them, and that the executors' taxed costs in the action
should be paid out of the testatrix's residuary estate.
The fund in Court now consists of £2,694-3s-6d Consols, upon which the
yearly dividends amounting to £74-7s-0d are paid after deduction of income
tax.
The Institute consists of a library and reading room, provided with
newspapers, periodicals, etc, a lecture room, and a museum. It is managed
by a committee of the members. Mr. Cavill the treasurer and curator of the
museum attended the Inquiry and stated that the Institute was conducted
now as it was in the lifetime of Mrs Yates. Members pay 1s a quarter.
Transcribed by Alan Longbottom
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