In 1889 the congregation received a major bequest from Henry J. Steere, a prominent philanthropist and industrialist.

"One fellow left us a major bequest," he said.

The British royal family received no major bequests.

The museum's collective mind has lately been concentrated elsewhere: on its physical expansion and on a recent major bequest of paintings.

A major bequest was made to Planned Parenthood of New York, resulting in the Othmer Institute.

It houses a major bequest from Laurie Gage, an antiquarian book dealer and philanthropist with a great personal interest in the area, who died in 1994.

John D. Rockefeller, Jr. made a substantial gift to the Fund in 1951, and in 1960 the Fund received a major bequest from his estate.

The first major bequest came from Stephen Skidmore in 1883.

It was UCLA's first major bequest, and still one of the most generous in the university's history.

The legend continues that, many years later, the university received a major bequest in the student's will, on condition that his project be built.