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 In 1892 the Hon. Algernon Gray Tollemache, by will and codicil, proved at London 12 February, gave £500 to the poor. This sum was augmented by gifts of £100 each from his widow the Hon. Frances Louisa Tollemache and the Earl of Dysart. The fund was in £704 9s. 9d. consols in the names of the Rt. Hon. Baron Sudeley and others, the trustees appointed under the will, who by indenture, dated 2 March 1894, directed that the income should be applied in or towards the support of a sick nurse.

The Hon. Frances Louisa Tollemache also founded six almshouses in memory of her late husband, by deed, 16 November 1892, for the accommodation of nine inmates, and endowed the same with £16,000, which is now invested in certain British and Colonial securities, producing an annual income of £490. Each of the single inmates receives 7s. 6d. a week, and each married couple (of whom there may be three) 13s. 6d. a week. The surplus income is applied in out pensions and in subscriptions to various local institutions. A scholarship of £10 a year is also granted to a boy or girl at the Ham National Schools.

In 1859 Anne Greene, by a codicil to her will proved at London 8 September, directed that the interest on a sum of £200 should be applied in a dinner to the poor on Christmas Day, or in gifts of 5s. each at Christmas to poor widows, or in apprenticing poor boys and girls, as the incumbent and churchwardens should think fit. Owing to a deficiency of assets a sum of £101 17s. 2d. consols only was received in satisfaction of the legacy. The dividends, amounting to £2 11s. per annum, are distributed in sums of 5s. to ten poor widows.

In 1888 William Mercer, by deed, dated 25 April 1888, settled a sum of £81 13s. 10d. consols upon trust that the income should be applied in the repair and maintenance of the church of St. Paul, Hook, and for the services thereof.

The sums of stock are held by the official trustees.

Ditune (xi cent.).

Long Ditton is a village one and a half miles south-west of Kingston. It was at the time of the Domesday Survey in Kingston Hundred. There was a church there then, and it may have been already parochially distinct from Kingston. In the grant of Kingston and Long Ditton churches to Merton Priory, soon after the foundation in 1117, Long Ditton was not included among the chapelries of Kingston which are enumerated. The parish is divided into two parts, Long Ditton proper and Talworth (q.v.), with a strip of Kingston parish, the hamlet of Hook, intervening. The western portion, which contains the village of Long Ditton, abuts on