The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-04-24 00:00:00

WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

-The will of the Hon. Caroline Handley, of Boiler'
House, Kent, and of 37,'Lowndes-street, Belgrave-
square, was proved in London, on the 4th of April, by
Sir William Milts, Bart., of Leigh Court, Bristol, the
Hon. and Rev. Thomas Edwardes, M.A., rector of
Brougham, Westmoreland, the brother, and Miss Caro-
line Edwardcs Handley, the eldest daughter, the acting
executors. The personalty, valued at £14,000, she has
given principally amongst her • eight daughters and
youngest son, the eldest being amply provided for by
the real estates under marriage settlement. The
youngest son receives a further and distinct-- legacy
of 2,000. There is also a sum of £15,000 under
settlement, and disposed of by the will of her late hus-
band, to be divided among their younger children. There
is, however, a peculiarity in the case. of the youngest
son, who appears to have been born after the execution
of her late husband's will ; it is therefore her desire
that be should reap the same benefit as the rest of the.
children enumerated under his will to b 3 paid out of
her estates. She bequeaths to her unmarried daughters
all the plate, linen. china, furniture,. wine, and other
effects. The will is dated July 14, 1849, and was
witnessed by S. Amory, solicitor, Tbrogmort on-street,
and Charlotte Queleb. • The deceased was born in .1798,
and married, in 1825, Henry Handley, Esq.., of CilliTe•e-
therpe Hall, Lincolu, who died in 1846. She was the
eldest daughter of the second Lord Kensington (William
Edwarde-i), and is descended from Francis -Edwarde,
.Esq., of Trcfgarue, Pembrokeshire of an ancitmt Welsh
family:

Sir John Barker Mill, Bart., of Mettisfont Abhor. near
Romsay, Hants, had executed his will (by making. a
cross) on the 13th of February, 1860, onlv one week
before his death, and has loft personalty estimated st
£90,000. Lady Mill, his relict, rs the sole 'executrix,
and has administered thereto. Sir John has bequeathed
to his wife, for her life, all his freehold and leasehold
estates. vrhie'l be became possessed of under the Will of
his uncle, the late Sir Charles Mill, Dart. (Barker Mill's
Estate Act); and after her decease he has bepieathed
the freehold and leasehold estates to Mary Ann Ibbetson,
the daughter of his cousin, Captain Barker. Sir John
makes the following bequests to his servants.:--To his
steward a legeey of £3OO, free of legacy duty ; to his
,Tramekeeper, Henry Powell, an annuity of £2ii,; and a-
like annuity to his butler; one year's wagrs to all his
servants, woodmen, and gamekeepers. He appointed
his wife residuary legatee. Sir John Ilirker Mill, Bart.,
herf tufore the' Rey; John Barker, M.A., was formerly
vicar of Sambourn Kings-wit!.-"itoe'ibridge, and Sam-
bourn. Little, of which livings he became the patron. -
The late Mrs. Catherine Ball, of Cheltenhara„,
center, widow, who died on the 26th of January, 1800,
besides her estates in Ireland, has died possessed of
personalty in England valued at £20,003. lier will,
with two codicils, was proved in London by her
executors, Henry' Samuel Close, Esq., ,of Dublin, and
Joshua Wig,lev Bateman, Esq., of the Duchy of Corn-
wall Office, London ;to each she leaves 4'400. She
has bequeathed her residence at Cheltenham, and all
the furniture, plate, &c., and carriage -and horses,
to her
,niece, Charlotte, the wife of 'Colonel the
Hon. -George Augustus Spencer, and has bequeathed her
.rnessual.v,e at Twickenham, with the:nursery grounds and
premises, to her nephew, the Rev. Maxwell Blacker.
There are nunieous legacies to her sister, Lephews,
nieces, cocaine, as well as to her !nth and neighbours.
To two of her servants she leaves 1.30 each, and £lO
each to three others. The• residue of her property
she leaves among her grandnieces. The follow-
ing are the charitable bequests :—To the poor
of Drumholme, Ireland, £lOO ; Irish Church Mis-
sions, £100; Irish Church Education, £100; Refor-
mation Society, £lOO ; Scripture Readers, Ireland,
/100; British and Foreign Bible Society, £100; Society
for Distributing and Teaching the Bible in the Irish
Language, £100; Cheltenham Branch Church Mission-
ary and Pastoral Aid, £lOO each; Cheltenham Hospital,
£5O; Female Refuge, Cheltenham, £5O ; to the Minis-
ters of St. Paul's, St. Peter's, and other churches in
Cheltenham for the poor, £5O for each district. Leaves
£3OO towards the erection of almshouses for the 'poor
widows of St. Paul's, Cheltenham, and £3OO for the
endowment thereof. To a Scripture-reader she has left
a freehold house, and to the widow of another Scripture-
reader, £lOO.