United Charities and Others Charity No 229941
The charity owns a local field. An early reference to this land was in 1677, “of land in Berwicks Marlow.” On some of this land ( which came to the charity via The Poor’s Estate) were built Victorian workhouses.
Around 1900, these were sold off as private housing. The remaining fields in charity ownership are now let and generate a small annual income.
In the late Victorian years, many individual Marlow charities were combined into a group called “United Charities and Others” on 21 December 1895. The individual charities were as follows:
- AGNES FRYAR (Linked charity 229941-5 AGNES FRYAR)
- ALFRED DAVIS
- HENRY PENDLETON (Linked charity 229941-7 HENRY PENDLETON)
- POOR’S ESTATES
- REVEREND JOHN CLEOBURY
- RICHARD DAVENPORT
- ROBERT BOOTHBY
- SARAH WETHERED
- SUSANNA HONE (WITH THE EXCEPTION OF SUSANNA HONE’S EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
- THE OWEN WILLIAMS CHARITY GREAT MARLOW
- THOMAS DREW
- TURVILLE CHARITY
- WILLIAM WILLOUGHBY
The declared General Charitable Purposes were ‘the prevention or relief of poverty.”
As an example, in 1909, the annual income from the Poor’s Trust of £100 “was applied to the distribution of 36 tickets for beef, 144 sacks of coal, and 580 drapery tickets.”
The above charities were started; Fryar year 1615, Davis year 1925 , Pendleton year 1675, Poor’s year 1872, Cleobury year 1799, Davenport year 1798, Boothby year 1610, Wethered year 1852, Hone year 1853, Williams year 1924, Drew year 1651, Turville year 1613, Willoughby year 1587. These dates are taken from History of Buckinghamshire Volume 3, page 76-77.
In more recent times, these charities have also been merged into Marlow United Charities. The Marlow Provident Nursing Association, The Rolls Charity, Marlow Blanket Charity, and Anne West Charity.
