A widow whose family were left penniless after fleeing Hong Kong at the start of World War II has left most of her £6million fortune to charity.
Georgina Sutherland died in May, aged 95, and has requested the vast majority of her wealth should be put into a charitable fund bearing her name.
Mrs Sutherland, who lived her later life in Aberdeen, was originally born in Glasgow but was raised in Hong Kong where their father had a civil engineering company.
She and her mother escaped to Australia, carrying just one suitcase, before the Japanese invasion of the island. Her father later died in a Hong Kong prison.
Mrs Sutherland found work as a secretary to support herself and her mother but they struggled to find money for food and clothes.
She remained in Australia throughout the war and worked for the Hong Kong government who were in exile in Sydney.
After the war she returned to Hong Kong where she worked in civil service, eventually becoming secretary to the Governor before meeting her husband Tom Scott Sutherland in 1948.
He was a highly successful Aberdeen-based architect, cinema tycoon, house builder and philanthropist.
They married in 1950 and moved into a mansion overlooking the River Dee in Aberdeen.
The couple had no children and Mrs Sutherland was widowed after just 12 years of marriage and remained single for the rest of her life.
It has now emerged that she set aside a massive fortune to allow good causes to benefit from her wealth.
Her published will shows she left £346,000 to family and friends but put the rest of her £6,149,722.29 fortune into the Ina Scott Sutherland Charitable Foundation.
Documents show she asked that the trust should be allowed to pick and choose the charities to benefit.
Mrs Sutherland built up a huge stocks and shares portfolio and spent most of her life supporting charities, in particular the Order of St John, which is dedicated to helping others through medical and rescue activities. She was named a Dame of St John in 1979.