The Sun.
London, England, 1860-04-21 00:00:00

WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

The evill of the Hon. Caroline Handley, of Bexley
House, Kent, and of 37, Lowndes-street, Belgrave-
square, was proved in London, on the 4th of April,
by Sir William Miles, Bart., of Leigk Court, Bristol.
The Hon. and Rev. Thomas Edwardes, M.A., Rec-
tor of Brougham, Westmorland, the brother, and
Miss Caroline Edwardes 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 son 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 husband, 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 he should reap the same benefit as the rest of
their children enumerated under his will to be 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, Throg-
morton-street, and Charlotte Quelch. The deceaoed
was born in 1799, and married, in 1825, Henry
Handley, Esq., of Calverthorpe Hall, Lincoln, who
died in 1846. - She was the eldest daughter of the
second Lord Kensington (William Edwardes), and
is descended from Francis Edwardes, Esq., of
Trefgarue, Pembrokeshire, of an ancient Welsh
family.
Sir John Barker Mill, Bart., of Mottisfont Abbey,
near Romsey, Hants, had executed his will (by
making a cross) on the 13th of February, 1860,
only one week before his death, and has left 'per-
sonalty estimated at £90,000, Lady Mill, his re-
lict, is the sole executrix, and has administered
thereto. Sir John has bequeathed to his wife, for
her life, all his freehold and leasehold estates, which
he became possessed of under the will of his uncle,
the late Sir Charles Mill, Bart. (Barker Mill's
Estate Act) • and after her decease he has be-
queathed 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 :—eTo his steward a Legacy of
£3OO, free of legacy duty; to his gamekeeper,
Henry Powell, an annuity of £25; and a like
annuity to his butler, one year's wages to all his
other servants, woodmen, and gamekeepers. He
appointed his wife residuary legatee: Sir John
Barker Mill, Bart., heretofore the Rev. John
Barker, M.A., was formerly Vicar of Sambourn
Kings with Stoelebi-idge, and Saanboura Little,
of which livings he became the patron.
The late Mrs. Catherine Ball, of Cheltenham,
Gloucester, widow, who died on the 26th of January,
1860, besides her estates in Ireland, has died pea-
sessed of personalty in England valued at 20,0001.
Her will, with two codicils, was proved in London
by her executors Henry Samuel Close, Esq., of
Dublin, and Joshua Wrigley Bateman, Esq., of
the Duchy of Cornwall Office, London ; to each
she leaves £4OO. 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 Spencar, and has bequeathed her mesaage
at Twickenham, with the nursery grounds and pre-
mises, to her nephew, the Rev. Maxwell Blacker.
There are numerous legacies to her sister, nephews,
nieces, cousins, as well as to her friends and neigh-
bours. To two of her servants she leaves £3O each,
and £lO each to three others. The residue of her
property she leaves among her grand-nieces. The
following are the charitable bequest :—To the
poor 'of Drumholme, Ireland, £100; Irish
Church Missionscation, £lOO ; Ref,
or m.g
toioo
n;
Societylrish Church
slci]idi tit;
ture Readers, Ireland, £lOO ; British and Fo-
reign Bible Seeiete,,, £100; Society for Distribut-
inge•
and Teachin 4the Bible in the Irish Language,
and Pastoral Aid
thet l,
ministersitso ;le at. les t liefi'leugle,s,, Csltie.l tie)
(I,i:el
£lOO ; It( 4.1710 Ilranch Church Missionary
£lOO each ; Cheltenham Hospi-
tal,
poor, £5O for each
am,
t
and other
churches in Cheltenham for
and
itdiintlento•ses Leaves £3O. 0 towards the erection of
Scripture -reader ;,11()
X3OO for the cndo,txtite;it thereof. To a
for poor widows of St Paul's, Chelten-
ham,to the 7i4W or' another Scripture-reader, £lOO.—
has left a freehold house, and
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Ho 118 ES too;, F ENCII GovERNM EN T. —Mr.
sell., of Wooluielt, who was employed daring
the. Crtraean,
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w;lfi to i,,s;clt, in the purchase of horses for the
War Dey,trt gp,t,
in just returned from a six weeks' tour
~
Leicestershire, soil the Midland counties,
where he accompanied an aac,rti of-the French Government,
on whose behalf 800 the. finest horses procurable have
been purchasod and shipped.