My cousin Charles Weatherley Wall, who has died aged 91 of a chest infection, was a lifelong philanthropist, and the eponymous founder of the Wall Trust, a charity that supports exceptionally talented students in the performing arts who, without financial aid, might not be able to realise their potential.
He was born in Liverpool to Vera (nee Potter) and Bob (Robert) Wall, whose marriage in 1921 had linked two prominent Tate & Lyle families. In 1919 Charles’s grandfather Col RF Wall had returned from Gallipoli to be put in charge of the sugar refinery in London, while Charles Potter was the head of the Liverpool works, where Bob was to become assistant manager. Vera served as a nurse during the two world wars.
