Practicality
Ernest Digweed, a retired schoolmaster from Portsmouth, who died in 1976, left 26,000 pounds in the care of the Public Trustee with the following instructions:
‘if during these 80 years, the Lord Jesus Christ shall come to reign on earth, then the Public Trustee upon obtaining proof which shall satisfy them of His identity shall pay to the Lord Jesus Christ all the property which they hold on his behalf.’
If by 2056 the Lord has not appeared to claim the bequest the whole amount will revert to the State.
~’The Man Who Ate Bluebottles and Other Great British Eccentrics,’ Catherine Caufield,1981. Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd, London.
