Hugh Charles Cumberbatch

Notes:

Died at Hamptworth Lodge; in Steeple Landford?

£100,000 Left to College
Former Oxford Man's Bequest

Trinity College, Oxford, is to benefit by a sum in excess of more than£100,000 under the will of Mr. Hugh Charles Cumberbatch, who was at the college about 50 years ago.
Mr. Cumberbatch of Hamptworth Lodge, Landford, Salisbury, Wiltshire, a former assistant district commissioner in Kenya, died on 26 April last, aged 72. His estate totalled £314,451 gross, with a net value of£308,405. The duty paid was £196,696.
After personal legacies totalling £4,000 he left the residue to the President, fellows, and scholars of Trinity College for the general purposes of the college.
An official at the college said on Saturday that there had been nodecision on how the money would be used. The governing body would not meet until the beginning of the new term next month. Mr Cumberbatch the official added, was at Trinity College in the 1900s. He inherited money from his cousin, who was also at the college, as were many members of the family.

(The Times, Monday, Sep 09, 1957; pg. 8; Issue 53941; col D)

On 16 June 1966 the Cumberbatch Quarangle and Cumberbatch House wereopened at Trinity College, Oxford.

(The Times, Tuesday, Jun 14, 1966; pg. 14; Issue 56657; col E)