£21,000 FOR CHARITIES

Mr. H. C. Norman's bequests
MR. HERMAN CAMERON NORMAN, a former British Minister to Persia, a Privy Chamberlain to the Pope and a Knight of Malta, who died in September, has left nearly £21,000 to Catholic charities.
After his retirement from the Diplomatic Service—in which he was the best linguist—Mr. Norman devoted his life to Catholic activities, especially charities.
He left £9,000 to his trustees as to £3,000 to pay the income to the priest in charge of the Cambridge parish, £3,000 to the Oxford and Cambridge Education Board to he applied exclusively for the University of Cambridge, and £1,000 to Cambridge University Catholic MSociation; £5,000 to the Archbishop of Westminster towards the construction or maintenance of churches or schools, or the maintenance of parishes in England, or for or towards the completion of Westminster Cathedral; £500 for distribution among poor priests, more especially those in the diocese of Northampton, to provide Masses; £500 each to the Hospital of St. John and St. Elizabeth, the Catholic Truth Society. St. Andrew's Hospital, Doll's Hill, the Bede Association, St. Vincent's Orthopmdie Hospital, Pinner, the Converts Aid Society, St. Joseph's Hospice for the Dying. Hackney, Campion House, Osterley, St. Edmunds House, Cambridge, and the British Association of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta; £100 each to the Aged Poor Society, the Apostolate of the Sea, the Association for the Propagation of the Faith, the Catholic Prisoners' Aid Society, the Catholic Stage Guild, the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, the Crusade of Rescue, the Guild of Our Lady of Ransom, the Catholic Missionary Society, St. Hugh's Society, the Southwark Catholic Rescue Society, the Catholic Settlement, Bermondsey, the Catholic Union of Great Britain, and the Providence Row Night Refuge, Crispin Street