Sentence examples for whose bequest from inspiring English sources

Chantrey was also a successful artist whose bequest to the nation allowed what is now the Tate Gallery to buy important contemporary sculpture at the time.

Rosset was born in Chicago, the son of a banker whose bequest to his errant son was to prove instrumental in the shaping of modern literature.

November 1607 London, England September 14, 1638 Boston, Massachusetts John Harvard, (born November 1607, London, Eng. died Sept. 14, 1638, Charlestown [part of Boston], Mass .[U.S.]) New England colonist whose bequest permitted the firm establishment of Harvard College.

The Stella prize, in Australia, is named after Stella Miles Franklin, the esteemed novelist whose bequest founded the country's most prestigious literary award, the Miles Franklin, which came under memorable attack last year for being a "sausage fest".

Let us call the person "Alfred Nobel" even though we make no claim that the example resembles Alfred Nobel to whose bequest we owe the Nobel Prize.

In 1952, she married Pete Pulitzer, the grandson of newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer, whose bequest to Columbia University established the Pulitzer Prize.

This is a vibrant place, endowed in 1794 by James Bowdoin III whose 1811 bequest established the earliest collegiate collection of European paintings, drawing and prints in America.

This week Blair must deliver a bequest whose accomplishments stand peerless for even longer.

Neither did another of the most perceptive collectors of Picasso's work, Florene Schoenborn, whose donations and 1995 bequest brought to the Met several of the most powerful masterpieces by the Paris school painter.

Above that $5 million, there's a 35% estate tax, as well a second extra layer of tax (known as the generation-skipping transfer tax) for bequests to grandkids whose parents are still alive.

They were selected from a bequest by Winthrop Kellogg Edey (1937-1999), a New Yorker whose passionate hobby began when he was 12. Sailing On He was an implacable whale, but there are those who love him.