all previous testamentary dispositions made by me and declare
this to be my last WILL.
I APPOINT ARCHPRIEST MILUN KOSTIC of [address] and
ANTHONY GOSSELIN TROWER of [address] to be the
executors and trustees hereof and the expression “my Trustees”
shall mean the executors or trustees for the time being hereof.
2. I DEVISE AND BEQUEATH all my real and personal estate
whatsoever and wheresoever including all entailed property of
which I have power to dispose by WILL (hereinafter called
“my estate”) to the Conservative Party Association of [address]
for the purpose to establish a cultural INSTITUTION in
London named MILAN KOSTIC FOUNDATION (my late
father). Its purposes among others – to operate, maintain and
promote CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC VIRTUES – LOVE,
TRUTH, and FREEDOM. To promote the NURSING,
EDUCATIONAL, LITERARY WORKS, RELIGIOUS,
SCIENTIFIC
RESEARCH,
JOURNALISTIC
(not
DYSJOURNALISM) and ARTISTIC ENDEAVERS [sic],
proclaiming International and British Contest, prize awards in
money.
Each year to allocate £50,000 … to the Conservative Party
Assoc. for the protection and the promotion of British
INDENTITY
[sic],
TRADITION,
CULTURE
and
TOLERANCE. To provide with £25,000 … each year the
SERBIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH in London for the
protection and promotion of the SERBIAN HISTORIC,
CULTURAL and RELIGIOUS VIRTUES (VALUES).
I entrust and command the undersigned executors of my Will to
establish such a CULTURAL FOUNDATION, when I fade
away.”
54.
This draft was evidently Bane’s own composition, although he presumably copied the
formal parts and the definition of his estate in the first part of the clause numbered 2
from the 1988 Will. It will be seen that the intended gift of his entire estate to the
CPA was no longer, as it had been before, a gift for the general purposes of the
Association, but rather a gift for the specific purpose of establishing a cultural
institution in honour of Bane’s late father. The purposes of the proposed institution
were not exhaustively stated, as is shown by the words “among others”, but prominent
among them were the maintenance and promotion of the Christian democratic virtues
of love, truth and freedom, together with promotion of research and endeavours in the
other areas he singled out. £50,000 was to be allocated to the CPA each year, but
earmarked for the protection and promotion of British identity, tradition, culture and
tolerance. £25,000 was also to be allocated each year to the Serbian Orthodox
Church, for the protection and promotion of Serbian historic, cultural and religious
values.