THREE MORE KEY BEQUESTS

1 DENNIS SEVERS’ HOUSE

Number 18 Folgate Street, in Spitalfields, London, is a handsome early Georgian house once owned by Californian émigré and Anglophile Dennis Severs. Over 20 years, Severs transformed the former weavers’ house into a living museum – an intimate portrait of the lives of a family of Huguenot silk weavers from 1724 to the early 20th century.

On his death in 1999, Dennis bequeathed the house to The Spitalfields Trust, whose mission is to save and repair buildings at risk of demolition. Oliver Leigh-Wood is one of the administrators of the Trust and