The Sun.
London, England, 1865-11-18 00:00:00

REGENT WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

(Front the Illustrated London News)
The will of the Right Hon. Diana, Countess of
Clare, was proved, in her Majesty's Court of Pro-
bate, by the Rev. Henry H. Hutchinson, the Right
Hon. John Baron Wodehouse (her son-in-law), and
James Leman, Esq., solicitor, Lincoln's-inn-fields,
the executors. The personalty was sworn under
£5,000. Her Ladyship was the daughter of Charles
Brydges Woodcock, Esq. ; was twice married, first
to M. C. Moore, Esq., and secondly, in 1825, to
the late Right Hon. Richard Hobart, Lord Fitz-
Gibbon, third Earl of Clare. Her Ladyship died
on the 29th of September last, having executed her
will on the Bth of February, 1864, and a codicil in
April, 1865. Her Ladyship has disposed of the
family pictures between her daughters Lady Dillon
and Lady Wodehouse, and leaves the residue of
her property to be equally divided amongst the
children of her daughter Lady Elinor Cavendish.
Her Ladyship has -left to three of her servants
legacies of £2OO each.

The will of the late Alderman Farncomb was
proved in the London Court, on the 26th ult., by
the surviving executors, William Rixon, Esq., and
David Henry Stone, Esq., the testator's nephew.
The personalty was sworn under £140,000. The
will appears to have been made in the year of his
mayoralty, being thus indorsed The will of the
Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, Thomas Farncomb,"
and bears date September 25, 1850 ; and there are
two codicils, 1854 and 1861. The testator died on
September 23, 1865, at his residence, Rose Hill,
Forest-hill, Surrey, at the age of eighty-six, a
bachelor. He carried on business as a wharfinger
and merchant. The bulk of his property, consist-
ing of the residue, he has divided into four parts, leav-
ing one-fourth to his brother Henry, one-fourth to
his brother Edward, one-fourth to the children of his
deceased brother John, and the remaining fourth to the
children of his deceased sister, Winifred Arkcoll, by
her first husband. /o his said nephew and execu-
tor he has left a legacy of £B,OOO and the estate at
Hollington, Sussex ; to his executor, Wm. Rixon,
£5OO ; to each of his clerks at Griffin's-wharf, 19
guineas ; to his chief clerk, Mr. Thomas Maxfield,
£2OO ; also legacies to his servants ; and to the
Philanthropic Society and the Asylum for Deaf and
Dumb Children of the Poor, £lOO each.
The will of the Rev. John Clayton, many years
the minister of the Poultry Chapel, lately residing
at Bath, and previously of Brighton, was proved in
London, on the Bth inst., by Joseph Lanfear, Esq.,
of Waddon, and Wm. Hunter, Esq., of North-end,
Croydon, the acting executors and trustees. John
Esq., of Denmark-hill, also an executor, renounced.
The personalty was sworn under £25,000. The
testator died, on the 3d of October last, at the age
of 85. The will is dated February, 1860, and there
are two codicils, one dated March, 1860, and the
other January, 1863. He has bequeathed to his
son, Edward Clayton, a legacy of £4,000 (New
Three per Cents); to his orphan granddaughter,
Sarah Ellis Clayton, £3,000 ; to his daughter Sarah,
wife of Alfred Randall, £6,000 ; to his daughter
Mary, wife of George Rawson, £6,000 by the will,
and an additional £l,OOO by a codicil, and has ap-
pointed his said two daughters residuary legatees
of his entire estate, real and personal. There are
a few small legacies. To the British and Foreign
Bible Society, the British and Foreign School So-
ciety, and the London Missionary Society, each a
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The will of the Rev. John Greenwood, D.D.,
rector of Colne Engaine, Essex, has been proved in
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The personalty was sworn under £3,000. Dr.
Greenwood was Head Master of Christ's Hospital
(or Bluecoat School), and was presented to the
living of Collie Engaine, in 1827, by the governors
of that hospital, the patrons, the annual income
returned at £6BO. -Dr. Greenwood attained the
age of 79, and died on the 14th of August last.
The will was made in 1862, and is in his cwn
handwriting, and attested by John Taylor, of
White Colue, and the Rev. Edmund Jenner.

IS TIIERE NO MEDIUM COURSE ?—Alluding to
the prospects of Reform, the Law Times of to-day remarks :
—" The Star, in leaded type, makes the significant an-
nouncement that Earl Russell and Mr. Gladstone have
resolved to introduce a Reform Bill, on a democratic basis,
immediately on tho meeting of Parliament, at which Mr.
Bright's organ is, of course, very jubilant. It remains to
be seen whether the country will consent to the transfer
of all political power from property and intelligence to
numbers."