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Published on
October 9, 1998
Last updated
May 27, 2015

(Photograph) - Newcastle University library has received Pounds 8 million from the estate of Marjory Robinson, who owned an international bookselling business with her husband. Librarian Tom Graham said he had been "gobsmacked" by the news and thought the bequest was the largest to any university outside Oxford and Cambridge.

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