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Leonard Chamberlain (1642-1716) was a woollen draper, and had a business in the Market Place in Hull but lived in Selby. For many years he was a dissenting Presbyterian but would eventually become a Unitarian.

By will of 1716 Chamberlain devised various properties in Hull, Selby, Hessle and Sutton and Stoneferry to provide weekly pensions to poor people of Hull and Sutton and Stoneferry. Eventually the Trust would use this provision to endow almshouses in Sutton and Selby. In addition, there were some educational and religious provisions included in Chamberlain's will. These covered the same geographical areas as well as parts of the East Riding. It would provide, for example, schoolmasters and funds for the Bowlalley Lane Chapel. These provisions would later be modernised to include, for instance, support for young people in education. The Trust continues today, and covers the same aspects as Leonard Chamberlain identified in his original will.

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