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

RECENT WILLS AND BEQTTESTS.

(From the Illustrated London News.)
The will of the Right Hon. Charlotte Susanna Dowager
Countess of Albemarle, formerly of Quidenham Hall, Nor-
ft
Ph eil Llioohlk, and late of Park-road, Twickenham, was proved in
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executor. rt the 19th ult., by the Right Hon.
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Baron de L'lale and Dudley, the sole
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personalty Wasswornunder £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 made
to a previous deed of assignment in favour of her ladyship's
two sons, by a former marriage, to which conveyance her
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. Adela
Fitzclarence, the Hon. Ernestine Silney, 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 18.58, which was attested by Mr. Hugh
Fraser, attache to her Majesty's Legation, and Mr. G. C.
Sawyer, Severn llouse, Henbury, Gloucestershire. The
late Sir George, who attained to the age of 77, had repre-
Rented 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.
The deceased was the eldest son of the late gallant Admiral
Sir George Bowyer, Bart., by his second wife, Henrietta,
the daughter of Admiral Sir P. Brett, M.P.

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THE REGISTRY OF DEEDS IN MIDDLES/It
commission of inquiry is to be moved for inthA
House of Commons respecting the registry of deaditien
Middlesex. By the New Transfer Act, where property is
egistered under the new law, it is not required to be re-
gistered in Middlesex or Yorkshire. A better registration
of property is in contemplation.
A SWIMMING CORPS.—One of the Confederate
regiments in the battle of Murfreesborough was
raised in Missouri by a son of ex-Governor John B. Clarke.
Colonel Clarke, when recruiting his regiment, was obliged
to conceal himself by day and work at night. After filling
up his corps he swam the whole, 1,00, across the Missis-
sippi river--a mile and a quarter wide, and at the time full
drifta' ice 1
.

MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL.—The quarterly court of
Cis charity was held on Thursday last, the Hon.
qapiain Maude, 11.. 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
pest quarter there was one which is deserving
of special
notice, inasmuch as the donor, Mr. Cropper, exhibited a
singular instance of rigid economy in 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 ho died, bad, 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 estimated at
about 4000 per annum and £lO,OOO in money, the whole
of which he has bestowed upon the charities of London, se"
looting the Middlesex Hospital as his residuary legatee.
This has been a great boon to this institution, as it appears
from the report that its expenditure is considerably greater
than its income,