The Sun.
London, England, 1860-08-27 00:00:00

RECENT WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

Lieut.-General Harding, K.C.B.—The will and
codicil of Lieut.-General Sir George Judd Harding,
Colonel Commanding the Royal Engineers, for-
merly of Norfolk-crescent, Hyde-park, but late of
Belmont Lodge, Guernsey, where he died on the
sth of July last, at the age of 73, and of which
island he was for some time Lieutenant-Governor,
were proved in the London Court of Probate on
the 17th of the present month, by Samuel Steward,
Esq., and Captain H. Y. D. Scott, RE., the joint
executors and trustees. The' personal estate was
sworn under £9,000. Sir George has bequeathed
to Lady Harding the whole of his furniture, plate,
china, and all other household effects absolutely,
and has left her ladyship a life interest in his entire
estates, which, on her ladyship's decease, will, with
the exception of £2,000, devolve to their grand-
daughter, Zilla Mary Fanshawe. The £2,000
alluded to he gives in the following manner :
£l,OOO to his grandson, Charles Harding Fan-
shawe, and the other £l,OOO to his grandson,
George Dalrymple Fanshawe.%There are no other
bequests contained in the will, which bears date
the 23d of April, 1853, and is attested by H. Sand-
ham, Colonel R.E., and H. C. Nisbet, Lincoln's
Inn-fields. _ _ _

C. Few, Esq.—The will of Charles Few, Esq., of
Streatham-hill, Surrey, formerly of Henrietta-
street, Covent-garden, solicitor, who died at his
residence at Streatham, on the 2d of July last,
at the age of 83, was proved in the principal
registry of the Court of Probate on the 31st of
the same month, by his twe sons and son-in-law,
namely, Robert Few, Charles Few, and Robert
Brown, of Brixton-hill, surgeon, who are nominated.
his executors under the will, which bears date the
24th of December, 1859. The personal property
was sworn under £45,000. The deceased possessed.
estates in Australia and New Zealand, The testa-

tor gives to his daughter Catherine, who resided
with him, au immediate legacy of £lOO, and many
specific bequests, together wilh a sixth part of the
residue of his entire estate; and to this disposition
he has also given a very peculiar direction—namely,
that his said daughter may occupy the house in
which he resided and receive and entertain com-
pany in the same manner as he himself had done,
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consisting of plated corner-dishes, &c., was pre-
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Mr. Few appears to have given his attention to the
study of a particular branch of natural history: this
has been carried out by bequeathing to Dr. James
Heywood, his son-in-law, physician to the Derby-
Infirmary, his cabinet of fossils, some specimens of
which he particularly valued as having been col-
lected by the Duke of Norfolk when a youth tra-
velling in a foreign land. The will then goes on to
distribute, after the payment of legacies, the re-
mainder of his estate in six equal portions, one-
sixth to each of his children, and concludes with
some small legacies to his servants.
Mr. Thomas Cotterill, of Richmond-terrace,
dg-. ter This
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Barnsbury Park, and of Birmingham, is reported
to have died what is termed " a millionaire."- This
vast amount of property he seems to have accumu-
lated by suceiessful speculations, accompanied by a.
very careful, or, as moy. b© considered, rather a
died
the 12th of
this month, after a short illness, at the age of 81„
and was interred at St. Philips', Birmingham.
When the will has been proved and deposited in
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the Court of Probate, it will then fall within our
province to record it.—lllustrated London News.
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residence,

The Reig.r.te, or sth Surrey Volunteers, mustered
on Frichv last in the 'larket-place, at a quarter be-
fore 10 o'clock, uuder the command of Capt. Mon-
son, M.P., and marched thence to the residence of
Mr. John :ilon o.er, at Morley, where they wheeled
past in slow and quick time, and then fired twenty
rounds each of blank cartridge in skirmishing order.
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the official journal of Nassau.
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