The Sun.
London, England, 1863-02-07 00:00:00

RECENT WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

(From the Illustrated London News.)
The will of the Right Hon. Charlotte Susanna Dowager
Countess of Albemarle, formerly of Quidenham Hall, Nor-
folk, and late of Park-road, Twickenham, was proved in
the London Court, on the 19th ult., by the Right Hon.
Phillip Sydney Ponlis, Baron de L'lsle and Dudley, the sole
executor. The personalty was sworn under £14,000. The
testatrix was the second wife and relict of the Earl of Al-
bemarle. Her ladyship executed her will, together with a
codicil, on the same day, June 3, 1862. Reference is mad
to a previous deed of assignment in favour
of her ladyship'se
two sons, by a former marriage, to which conveyance her
4.ladyship has added a further sum of £6,000 upon the same
trusts. Many specific bequests are left to personal friends,
and several articles and family relics are to be held as heir-
looms. Legacies are left to her servants. The residue of
her property she bequeaths to three ladies-.—the Hon. Adele.
Pitzclarence, the Hon. Ernestine Sidney, and the Hon.
Philippa Sidney, in equal proportions.—The will of the late
Sir George Bowyer, of Radley House, Barks, has only just
been proved. The testator, who died at Dresden, in Saxony,
executed his will in 1858, which was attested by Mr. Hugh
Fraser, attache to her Majesty's Legation, and Mr. G. C.
Sawyer, Severn House, Henbury, Gloucestershire. The
late Sir George, who attained to the age of 77, had repre-
sented in Parliament the respective seats of Malmesbury
and Abingdon, and his son and heir, the present baronet,
is M.P. for Dundalk, to whom the testator has bequeathed
the whole of his di-posable property, real and personal.
Sir
The deceased George Bowyer, Bart., by his second wife, Henrietta,
the daughter of Admiral Sir P. Brett, M.P.

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ADVICE TO AN lISFU
pose" yourself.
We regret to state that Captain Gladstone,_. who,
for some years, has represented Devizes inParliament
expired this morning at Chippenham. ,

TER REGISTRY OF DEEDS IN MIDDLESEX..-A
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commission of inquiry is tobe
registry
yd forof deeds
in the
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is
liouse of Commons
Middlesex. By the New respectingTransferthe
Act,
required to
t, wherepropebrety
is
egistered under the new law, it is no
re-
gistered in Middlesex or Yorkshire. A better registration
of Property is in contemplation.
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A SWIMMING CORPS.—One of tho Confederate
regimeuts in the battle of Murfreesbor
B.
Clarke.
raised in Missouri by a son of ex-Governor
John
Colonel Clarke, when recruiting his regiment, was obliged
to conceal himself by day and work at night. After filling
111) his corps he swam the whole, 1,080, across the
full
of river—a mile and a quarter wide, and at the time of drift ice II I
MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL—TiIe quarterly court 01
this charity was held on Thursday last, the Hon.
Captain Maude, R.N., in the chair. Prayers having been
read by Dr. Hare, the chaplain, the usual business was pro-
ceeded with. Among the legacies bequeathed during the
Past quarter there was one which is deserving of special
notice, inasmuch as the donor, Mr. Cropper, exhibited a
singular instance of rigid economy his personal expen-
diture, combined with a bountiful and almost princely bene-
volence towards the poor. Mr. Cropper, who was near 90
Years old when he died, had, it appears, survived all his
relations. He was a barrister, and lived in the most fru-
gal manner in his chambers at Gray's-inn. The amount
of his property at the time of his death is about £4,000 per annum and £lO,OOO in money, the wh estimated at
ole
of which he has bestowed upon the charities of London, se-
lecting the Middlesex Hospital as his residuary legatee.
This has been a great boon to this institution, as it appears
Pure than its i
from the report that its expenditure is considerably greater
ncome.