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THE HAMLYN TRUSTTHE Hamlyn Trust came into existence under thewill of the late Miss Emma Warburton Hamlyn, ofTorquay, who died in 1941, aged eighty. She cameof an old and well-known Devon family. Her father,William Bussell Hamlyn, practised in Torquay as asolicitor for many years. She was a woman ofdominant character, intelligent and cultured, wellversed in literature, music and art, and a lover of hercountry. She inherited a taste for law, and studiedthe subject. She travelled frequently on the Continentand about the Mediterranean and gathered impressionsof comparative jurisprudence and ethnology.Miss Hamlyn bequeathed the residue of her estatein terms which were thought vague. The matter wastaken to the Chancery Division of the High Court,which on November 29, 1948, approved a scheme forthe administration of the Trust. Paragraph 3 of theScheme is as follows:" The object of this charity is the furtheranceby lectures or otherwise among the CommonPeople of the United Kingdom of Great Britainand Northern Ireland of the knowledge of theComparative Jurisprudence and the Ethnology ofthe chief European countries, including the UnitedKingdom, and the circumstances of the growthof such jurisprudence to the intent that the CommonPeople of the United Kingdom may realisethe privileges which in law and custom they enjoyin comparison with other European Peoples andvii