Frederick W. V. Blees, chief benefactor of Macon, founder of Blees Military Academy, (1860-1906).

Her own will had left her three-sevenths of Edgar's estate to one heir, Penelope, who became the chief benefactor and shareholder of - again, virtually nothing.

As an environmental advocate, Lefebvre is a chief benefactor of DeSmogBlog.com, a whistleblower blog run by Vancouver public relations specialist James Hoggan.

He was also a chief benefactor of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Alexandria, Virginia.

Furthermore, the City of Detroit is the chief benefactor of much indirect revenue sharing.

But his chief British benefactor, the former army officer Vaughan Smith, has shown that the Assange effect goes way beyond standard manipulation of the groupie-reflex.

It was the Wills and Fry families who were the chief benefactors of what became the University of Bristol.

Merewether - along with Sir G H Beaumont (ninth Baronet of Coleorton Hall) - was the chief benefactor of Saint Andrew's Church, each donating £100.

To many Turks, whose country was chief benefactor for a long while to half a million fleeing Iraqis, the Kurdish refugee crisis has reinforced widely held resentments that they are not liked abroad and may well never be.

In compliance with the Soviet Union, his country's chief economic benefactor, Cuba did not participate in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics.