On This Day
On This Day, 21 February 1917
On 21, Feb 2017 | In On This Day | By Nicola Gauld
Evening Despatch
Wednesday 21 February 1917
BEQUESTS TO HOSPITALS.
BIRMINGHAM BENEFICIARIES UNDER DOCTOR’S WILL.
Dr. Edmund Robinson, M.D., of 213, Bristol-road, Edgbaston, formerly district medical officer and vaccination officer under the old Birmingham Board of Guardians, who died 7 January last, aged 82, left estate valued £30,135, which £21,513 is net personalty.
Testator left £1,250 each to the Dr. John Taylor’s Memorial Home for Women, Sparkhill; the Birmingham and District Cripples’ Union, and the Children’s Hospital, Birmingham, in each case for the endowment of a bed to be called the Dr. Edmund Robinson Bed; and £500 to the Birmingham Medical Benevolent Society.
