Ward's City of London School for Girls Act 1885
WHEREAS William Ward late of No. 4 The Lawn Brixton Hill in the county of Surrey by his will dated the third day of June one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one bequeathed to the mayor commonalty and citizens of the city of London (herein-after called "the Corporation") the sum of twenty thousand pounds to be paid out of his personal estate and to be applied and expended by them in or towards the building on any lands belonging to the Corporation which they may lawfully use for that purpose...