1. I Errol Hay Thompson, of Whitburn House near Sunderland in the County of Durham, Shipbuilder, HEREBY REVOKE all former Wills and testamentary dispositions made by me, and declare this to be my last Will and Testament, which I make in contemplation of my intended marriage with Betty Kathleen Riach Norris, and I declare that this Will shall not take effect unless the said marriage is solemnized within six months from the date hereof.
   
   
2. I appoint William Hugh Robson, of Chapel Allerton Leeds, in the County of York, and George Edward Wilkinson, of 1 Mosely Street in the City and County of Newcastle upon Tyne, Solicitor (hereinafter called "my Trustees") to be the Executors and Trustees of this my Will, and I bequeath to each of them, if they shall respectively prove my this my Will, and accept the Trusteeship thereof, the sum of Two hundred and fifty pounds.
   
   
3. I GIVE to the said Betty Kathleen Riach Norris absolutely all my plate, plated articles, linen, china, glass, books, pictures, prints, furniture, jewelry, and articles of household or personal use or ornament, wines, liquors, and consumable stores, plants, garden tools, and implements, and other articles and effects of every kind ( including motor cars and accessories) which at my death shall be in or about any dwellinghouse occupies by me, or any buildings or grounds occupied by me therewith, but except money, or securities for money. Also the sum of Five hundred pounds to be paid to her as soon as conveniently may be after my death and in priority to all other legacies and annuities hereby, or by any Codicil hereto bequeathed.
   
   
4. I DIRECT that all the legacies and annuities bequeathed by this my Will, or any Codicil hereto shall be paid, delivered, or retained, free of all death duties and expenses, and I further direct that all death duties (if any) leviable on my death, in respect of any money or other property given or settled by me during the last three years of my life, and the interest on such duties, shall be paid by my trustees out of my residuary estate.
   
   
5. I DEVISE AND BEQUEATH all my real and personal estate not hereby or by any Codicil hereto otherwise disposed of, unto my Trustees Upon Trust, that my Trustees shall sell, call in, and convert into money, the same or such part thereof as shall not consist of money, and shall, with and out of the money produced by such sale, call in, and conversion, and with and out of my ready money, pay my funeral and testamentary expenses and debts, and the legacies bequeathed by this my Will or any Codicil hereto, and all death duties and expenses payable in respect of my real estate (including chattels real) and of any pecuniary or specific legacies bequeathed free from death duties, but so that all legacies and annuities and the said death duties and expenses shall be paid primarily out of my personal estate. And the Trustees shall invest the residue of the said money in their names, or under their control, with power at their discretion to change such investments for others of a like nature, and shall stand possessed of the said investments, and the investments for the time being representing the same (hereinafter called "the Trust Fund") and of the annual income thereof Upon the trusts following, that is to say:
   
   
   1. Upon Trust, out of the said annual income to pay the following annuities, namely:
      
      
      1. To my daughter Joan Kathleen Thompson annuity of Two hundred pounds during her life, until she shall become entitled in possession to a share in my residual estate, under the trusts hereinafter contained, without power of anticipation, during any coverture.
         
         
      2. To my daughter Florence Patricia Noel Thompson annuity of Two hundred pounds during her life, until she shall become entitled in possession to a share in my residual estate, under the trusts hereinafter contained, without power of anticipation, during any coverture.
         
         
      3. To their mother Florence Marjorie Thompson an annuity of Two hundred pounds until she marries again, Provided always that such annuity shall not be payable if previous to my death I have made any other provision by settlement or otherwise for the said Florence Marjorie Thompson, and so that the decision of my Trustees as to whether I have made such other provisions or not shall be final and binding upon all parties claiming hereunder.
         
         
      4. The said annuities shall commence from my death and be considered as accruing from day to day, but shall be paid by equal half yearly payments, the first payment to be made at the end of six months after my death.
         
         
   2. If there shall be any issue of the said intended marriage, living at my death, then subject to the payment thereout of the said annuities, my Trustees shall pay the said annual income to the said Betty Kathleen Riach Norris during her widowhood, and on her death or remarriage, my Trustees shall, subject only to the payment of the said annuity to the said Florence Marjorie Thompson (if then payable) stand possessed of the Trust Fund, and of the annual income thereof, In Trust in equal shares for the said Betty Kathleen Riach Norris, and all, or any, my children or child, by any marriage living at my death, who being a son, or sons, attain the age of twenty five years, or being a daughter or daughters, attain that age or marry under that age:
      
      
   3. If there shall be no issue of the said intended marriage living at my death, then notwithstanding anything hereinbefore contained, my Trustees shall stand possessed of one moiety of the Trust Fund and of the annual income thereof Upon Trust for the said Betty Kathleen Riach Norris absolutely, free from the said annuities, and shall stand possessed of the remaining moiety Upon Trust out of the annual income thereof to pay the said annuities hereinbefore bequeathed and subject thereto to pay the said annual income to the said Betty Kathleen Riach Norris during her widowhood, and after her death or remarriage, my Trustees shall, subject only to the payment of the said annuity to the said Florence Marjorie Thompson (if then payable) stand possessed of the remaining moiety of the Trust Fund, and of the annual income thereof Upon trust for such of them, the said Joan Kathleen Thompson, and Florence Patricia Thompson, as shall attain the age of twenty five years, or marry under that age, and if both of them in equal shares absolutely.
      
      
   4. PROVIDED ALWAYS that if any of my children shall die under the age of twenty five years, leaving a child or children, who being a son or sons, attain the age of twenty one years, or being a daughter or daughters attain that age or marry under that age, then in every such case, the last mentioned child or children shall take (and if more than one equally between them) the share which his, her, or their parent would have taken in the Trust Fund, if such parent had survived me and attained a vested interested, but this proviso shall not extend to the annuities hereby given to my said daughters, Joan Kathleen Thompson, and Florence Patricia Noel Thompson.
      
      
6. 1. My Trustees may at any time, in their absolute discretion, set apart and invest in any investments in which my residuary estate is authorised to be invested, with power to vary investments such a sum of money as will, when invested, produce by the income thereof, an annual sum equal to the amount of the annuities for the time being payable under my Will, and apply the income or (if necessary) the capital of the fund so appropriated in payment of the said annuities, which fund or such parts thereof as may not be required to answer any subsisting annuity shall on the dropping of the respective annuities fall into and form part of my residuary estate, and until such sum shall be so appropriated, I charge my residuary personal estate with the said annuities (subject to clause 5 (3) hereof) but if and when such a sum shall be appropriated, my residuary estate shall be thereby discharged from the said annuities.
      
      
   2. As each annuity ceases, I authorise my Trustees to treat as part of my residuary estate, a corresponding part of the appropriated fund (if constituted) retaining only such part thereof as may from time to time, in their opinion be sufficient to produce, by the income thereof, an annual sum equal to the then subsisting annuity or annuities.
      
      
7. My Trustees may postpone the sale and conversion of my real and personal estate, or any part thereof, and in particular may continue any investments, whether the same are of a nature authorised by this my Will, or not, however wasting, hazardous the same may be, for so long as they shall think fit, without being answerable for any loss arising thereby, and the rents profits and income to accrue after my death from such part of my property, as shall for the time being remain unsold and unconverted, shall after payment thereout of all such expenses and outgoings, as in the opinion of my Trustees, ought to be paid out of income, be paid and applied to the person or persons, and in the manner to whom and in which the income of he money produced by such sale and conversion, would for the time being be payable or applicable under this my will, if such sale or conversion had been actually made.
   
   
8. In addition to all powers conferred on trustees by law, my Trustees shall have full power to let, or demise, any real or leasehold property, for the time being remaining unsold, for any term or terms of years, at such rent, and upon such conditions as they shall think fit, to accept surrenders of leases and tenancies, to expend money in repairs and improvements, and generally to manage the property in such manner as they shall think fit, and also to borrow any money on mortgage of the property or any part thereof for the purpose of paying for any improvements or other expenses, which in the opinion of my Trustees ought to be paid out of capital and not out of income and so that no mortgagee shall be concerned to see for what purpose any money is raised, or as to the application thereof.
   
   
9. All moneys liable to be invested, under this my Will, may be invested in any investments for the time being authorised by law, for the investment of trust moneys, or in the preference shares of any incorporated Permanent Building Society in England.
   
   
10. The power of appropriation conferred by the Administration Act 1925, shall be exercisable by my Trustees, without any of the consents made requisite by that Act.
    
    
11. ANY Executor or Trustee hereof, being a solicitor or other person engaged in any profession or business shall be entitled to be paid all usual professional or proper charges for business transacted and acts done by him or any partner of his in connection with the trusts hereof, including acts which an executor or trustee, not being in any business or profession or business could have done personally.
    
    

In WITNESS whereof, I have set my hand to this my Will contained in this and the four preceding sheets of paper, this twenty eighth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and thirty two. E. H. Thompson

Signed by the said Errol Hay Thompson, as and for his last Will and Testament, in the presence of us together, present at the same time, who in his presence, at his request, and in the presence of each other, have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses:
Noel Wilkin, Mullincourt, Brockley Hill, Stanmore, Company Secretary
Charles J. Pearson, Bath Club, London W.1. Librarian

On the 14th day of November 1932 Probate of this will was granted at Newcastle upon Tyne.

Errol Hay Thompson, of Whitburn House,
Died 13 August 1932, at Cleabarrow Cottage, Windemere, Westmoreland

£ 44,789 12s 6d