It helped, to be sure, that his father, a financier, left him a substantial bequest.

These can be quite complicated and often involve very substantial bequests, sums far larger than those often involved in gift annuities.

He made a substantial bequest to the University of Southern California which named a building after him.

But then, not so long ago, the Frick received a substantial bequest from an undisclosed source.

The then current ratepayers had received substantial bequests from the ratepayers of 50 and 100 years previous.

He embarked on the life of a gentleman of leisure, made possible by a substantial bequest from one of his father's friends in 1817.

The demolition projects cost Grace Church over $200,000, which were financed by a substantial bequest and a budgetary allocation.

Calder left a substantial bequest to the University of Glasgow.

His second wife was well provided for and he made smaller but still substantial bequests, including £50 for his servant Edward Lloyd.

Upon his death in January 1849, he left a substantial bequest to the national education system.