'A tremendous gift' - Unassuming mobile-home caretaker leaves $3.8m in will to New Hampshire town

Geoffrey Holt, who wore threadbare clothes, rode a bicycle and died in June at 82, donated his fortune to his home town of Hinsdale

Main Street in Hinsdale, New Hampshire. Picture: Wikimedia Commons

The unassuming caretaker of a mobile home park in a small town in the US state of New Hampshire shocked its residents after leaving $3.8m (€3.48m) to the community in his will.

Residents would see Holt around town in threadbare clothes – riding his lawnmower, headed to the convenience store, parked along the main road reading a newspaper or watching cars pass.