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Mrs MARY GLANVILLE HODSON'S CHARITY

Updated: 29 March 2011

By means of a deed poll dated April 10th 1829, Mrs Mary Glanville Hodson stated that in order to perpetuate the name of Mr Thomas Hodson and the Reverend Doctor Robert Hawker, vicar of Charles Church, she had purchased the sum of £500 in Reduced Annuities and placed them in trust with two aims:

To purchase and distribute bread among the poor persons of the parish on April 13th and December 12th annually;

To keep in repair two tablets in Charles Church which commemorate the Charity.

The said sum was transferred to the Official Trustees of Charitable Funds by a Charity Commission Order dated January 2nd 1866 and at that time was apportioned to take account of the new parish of Sutton-on-Plym, the latter being allocated £125. At some point the Reduced Annuities were exchanged for Consols to the same value.

In 1901 the interest being received from the £375 allocated to Charles Church totalled £9 7s 4d. Of that sum, the vicar received £5 3s 0d while two shares of £2 2s 2d were given to the vicars of Saint Jude's and Saint Luke's.

The vicar of Charles Church distributed sixty-four 2-lb loaves on each of the above-mentioned dates to the occupants of the almshouses in Green Street and the residue was given to other poor people in the parish. The vicars of Saint Jude's and Saint Luke's combined their share with other charitable receipts for the provision of bread to poor people in their parishes.

In the parish of Sutton-on-Plym, the vicar added the interest he received from his £125, at the time £3 2s 4d, to a sick and poor fund that he administered.

Mrs Mary Glanville Hodson made some other gifts as a part of her Charity. Consols to the amount of £527 19s 4d were accepted by a declaration of trust in the name of the Reverend Septimus Courtenay and another on February 10th 1825. Trustees were appointed by an Order of the County Court for Devonshire dated January 13th 1869. Stock to the value of £64 19s 10d had to be sold to pay for the legal fees. The residue Consols, amounting to £462 19s 6d, were transferred to the Official Trustees of Charitable Funds by an Order of the Charity Commissioners dated March 23rd 1890.

The same donor, by her will dated November 1847 and proved in London on September 11th 1848, bequeathed a further £100 to the Household of Faith School.

SEE ALSO Thomas Hodson's Gift.

Principal Source:

"Endowed Charities (County Borough of Plymouth)", House of Commons paper number 295, quoting Reports on the Borough dated January 16th 1821 and June 30th 1837, His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, October 19th 1909.