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Harriet Morrison's Will

The Scotsman, Feb 25, 1910;.

ANOTHER MORRISON FORTUNE

"BONNIE PRINCE CHARLIE"
MINIATURE.

FOR the third time within eight months, one of the Morrison fortunes has paid its toll to the estate duties. The will of Mrs Harriet Morrison, of Farnwood, Ascot, and of 35 Cromwell Houses, Cromwell Road, London, and formerly of Glenmoriston, Inverness, who died on December 17 last, aged eighty-six years, widow of Mr. Frank Morrison, and daughter of the late Mr J. Murray Grant, of Glenmoriston, Inverness, and sister-in-law of the late Mr Charles Morrison and the late Miss Ellen Morrison, has been proved, the amount of the property being sworn as of the gross value of £470,408, of which the net personalty amounts to £455,080. The estate will be liable for duty at the rate of 12 per cent. for estate duty, and legacy duty ranging from 5 to 10 per cent., making in all a total payment of about £85,000.

Her brother-in-law, the late Mr Charles Morrison, left property provisionally valued at £6,666,666, on which provisional valuation £1,000,000 was paid in duty, and in respect of which further payments have still to be made; and her sister-in-law left property provisionally returned for probate at £975,000, and whose estate, it is expected, will eventually pay in duty over £400,000.

Mrs Morrison left:-

£25,000 to the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

£5000 to the Anti-Vivisection Hospital, Battersea Park Road.

£5000 to the Anti-Vivisection Society, of which the Hon. Stephen Coleridge is secretary.

£5000 to the Church Association.

£5000 to the Protestant Trust Society, to be applied for the benefit of the Wycliffe preachers.

£5000 to Wycliffe Preachers' College.

£5000 upon trust for the building of a church at Invermoriston, and the furnishing, or completing, of the furnishing, of the manse there, and in the provision of a garden for the manse.

Besides many handsome personal bequests, Mrs. Morrison left to her nephew, Murray Grant of Glenmoriston, whom failing to her nephew Ewen Grant, heir-presumptive to the Glenmoriston estates, the miniature of prince Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie) being the miniature sent to the Grant of of that day just before the rising which ended in the battle of Culloden in the year 1745 and three large oil paintings, "The Skaters," by Dillens, "Hands all Round," and "Grandma's Pet," both by Amalia Lindegren, and a number of prints and two inlaid cabinets, with the request, that they shall devolve as heirlooms within the Glenmoriston estates.