This Trust was originally set up towards the end of the nineteenth century (1873) by a wealthy Glasgow businessman, Archibald Colquhoun Esq. The Trustees were required:
“To make some provision for the relief of poor persons residing in Glasgow, or its immediate neighbourhood, who may either have been dismissed from the Glasgow Royal Infirmary or other hospitals in Glasgow, or who are afflicted with incurable disease, and so destitute and helpless as to be proper objects of charity.”
Archibald Colquhoun left a sum of £20,000 to be invested by the Trustees and the income from the investments was to be used to help the beneficiaries. The terms of the Trust are quite restrictive and in 1953, to reflect the changing times, the Trustees applied to the courts to allow them to set up an additional fund - The Colquhoun Bequest Supplementary Fund. The aims are the same but there is more latitude on how the funds are invested and from where charitable payments can be made.
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