LORD WINTERSTOKE'S ESTATE
The will with five codicils of Lord Winterstoke of Blagdon, who died on January 29, has been carried in for probate at the Principal Registry by the executors, Mr. George Alfred Wills, and Mr. Frank William Wills, his cousins, and Mr. William John Mann and Mr. William Rennie, the estate being provisionally sworn at £1,000,000, so far as at present can be ascertained.
Lord Winterstoke entailed his Coombe Lodge estate at Blagdon and all other his Somersetshire estates on Mr. George Alfred Wills, and devised East Court, St. Lawrence-on-Sea, to Miss Stancomb Wills for life, and then to Mr. G. A. Wills as part of the entail.
His London residence in Hyde Park Gardens and his yacht Sabrina he bequeathed to Miss Wills for life.
After specifically bequeathing his furniture and effects, and giving various annuities and legacies to relatives, friends, dependents, and servants, he left his residuary estate on trust, the income of one-half to be paid to Miss Stancomb WIlls for life and of the other half to Mrs. Richardson for life (his adopted daughters); and subject thereto his residuary estate is divided - as to two fourth parts between Messrs. Arthur John Grahame Stancomb and Frederick William Stancomb and their sister Mrs. Burton; as to another fourth part to Mr. Frank William Wills; and as to the remaining fourth part to Messrs. Henry Wills Gunn and Ernest Henry Mayo Gunn equally.
One of the codicils confirms a donation of £25,000 to Bristol University in addition to a previous gift of £10,000, both of which sums were paid in Lord Winterstoke's lifetime; and another codicil directs his executors to discharge any claim for estate duty in respect of gifts made within three years of his death at the cost of his personal estate, rather than allow the recipiants to be called upon to pay such duty.
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