The Times, Monday, Aug 05, 1929 OBITUARIES
Mr James Westoll
A well-known North of England shipowner, Mr. James Westoll, died yesterday at his residence, Coniscliffe Hall, High Coniscliffe, near Darlington.
Mr. Westoll, who was born in 1860 and had a house at Knightsbridge, London, was the son of the late Mr. James Westoll, of Sunderland, founder of the shipping firm of James Westoll, Limited, Sunderland.
He was educated at Edinburgh Royal High School and became senior partner in the firm of James Westoll, Sunderland, and chairman of James Westoll (London), Limited.
He was chairman of the Middle Dock and Engineering Company, South Shields, and of Messrs. Laversons Wallsend Collieries, Limited.
Mr. Westoll was also a director of two Sunderland shipbuilding firms - Messrs. W. Pickersgill and Sons and Messrs. S. P. Austin and Sons, Limited, and a director of Messrs. Thos, R. Miller and Sons, London.
He was a member of the Council of the Shipping Federation, London, and for many years a member of the River Wear Commission at Sunderland.
Mr. Westoll was a Durham county magistrate and was High Sheriff for the county in 1913.
He married the daughter of the late Mr. Robert Preston, a former Mayor of Sunderland, and she survives him, with one son, Mr. James Westoll, of Long Newton, Cumberland, and two daughters - Vera, who married Sir John Hindley, Bt., and Dorothy, who resided with her father at Coniscliffe.
The funeral takes place at Coniscliffe on Wednesday at noon.
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The Times, Thursday, Feb 13, 1930
WILLS AND BEQUESTS
SHIPOWNER'S ESTATE
Mr. James Westoll, J.P., of The Hall, Coniscliffe, Darlington, and of Sunderland, shipowner, lately chairman of Messrs. James Westoll, Limited, of the Middle Dock and Engineering Company, Limited, and of Laversons Wallsend Collieries, Limited, a director of Messrs. Pickersgill and Sons, Limited, and of S. P. Austin and Son, Limited, and of several other concerns, who died on August 4, aged 69, left estate in his own disposition of the gross value of £517,069, with net personalty £483,546.
The duties of the property at this valuation and according to the dispositions of the will will amount to over £145,000.
He left: - £250 each to his son James and his son-in-law, Sir John Scott Hindley, as executors, and to his wife a legacy of £500, together with the use during widowhood of his residence and household and personal effects, with remainder to his children or their issue.
To his son James he left all his shares, debentures, or other interests in the Middle Dock and Engineering Company, Limited, S.P.Austin and Son, Limited, and in William Pickersgill and Sons, Limited, and the residue of his property as to one-half upon trust for his wife during widowhood, or a life interest in one-fourth in the event of her remarriage, and subject thereto the whole equally between his children, James Westoll, Dame Vera Hindley, and Dorothy Westoll, directing that the shares of his daughters should be retained upon the usual trusts.
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