The Sun.
London, England, 1866-12-15 00:00:00

Recent Wills and Bequests.

The will of Mr. Corney, of Old Broad-street,
London, and of High-cross, Tottenham, was proved
in the principal registry on the 30th ult. by his
cousin, Messrs. Robert P. Barrow, John Shepherd,
and William H. Sawyer, the joint acting executors.
The personalty was sworn under £50,000, the prin-
cipal part of which he has left to found a female
orphan asylum for not less than 20 girls whose
parents may have resided in the neighbourhood of
London, to be under the management of the Court
of Assistants of the Drapers' Company, of which he
was a member. The expenditure from his estate for
that purpose he has restricted to the sum of £36,000,
to be free from legacy duty. He leaves to the
Drapers' Company, to be placed in their library,
several volumes of books, and to the Broad-street
Ward Charity Schools £5O. He bequeaths to each
of his executors £lOO. There are legacies to
his nephews, • nieces, cousins, and others, and also
to his servants. His freehold at Tottenham,
and all other his real estate, he leaves to his
cousin, Robert Corney Harrison, and a legacy
of £5,000. He leaves all his plate, jewellery,
china, glass, medals, pictures, cameos, and the re-
mainder of his books to be equally divided be-
tween Robert P. Barrow and John Shepherd, and
appoints them residuary legatees. The will was
executed October 20, 1858, and there arc three co-
dicils, dated in 1865-66, and he died November 9,
aged 80. The will of Mr. William Henry Goschen,
merchant, of London and Dresden, was proved in
her Majesty's Court of Probate on the 17th ult.,
by his sons, the Right Zion. Geo. Joachim Goschen,
M.P., and Mr. Charles Hermann Goschen, the exe-
cutors. The personalty in England was sworn
under £500,000. The testator died in Ghent, July
28, aged 74. The will is qf considerable length,
and bears date July 12, 1865, with a codicil on
15th of same month. The bequests, which are in
large amounts, are chiefly confined to the members
of his family. To his wife he leaves the interest of
£85,000, an annuity of £2,800, and the sum of
£30,000 absolutely. His sons George and Charles
are appointed residuary legatees. To his sons
Henry, Alexander, and William, each £20,000.
To his daughters Fanny and Maria, in the event of
their marrying in the lifetime of their mother, be
leaves a very liberal sum, besides an equal share
with his other daughters on the demise of their
mother, in the reversion of £70,000. Ile bequeaths
to his sister Frederica a moiety of some landed pro-
perty at Hohenstadt, she being in possession of the
other portion ; and to his elder sister Henrietta a
legacy of £5OO, having previously given to her au
equivalent in value. He bequeaths two sums of
£5,000 each in trust for his sons George Joachim
and Charles Hermann, for the benefit ofitheir wives
and families. The residue of his property he divides
into three parts, leaving two-thirds thereof to his
son Charles. He directs the sum of £l,OOO, free
of legacy duty, shall be divided amongst the clerks
employed in his mercantile house of business.—The
will of Mr. Thomas Lee, many years cashier at
Messrs. Hoare's, bankers, Fleet-street, residing at
Hemingford-villas, Barusbury, was proved in the
London Court, by George Whitley, the acting
executor ; power being reserved to Arthur Rolls,
the other executor. The personalty was sworn
under £B,OOO. The testator died k;ov. 5, aged
86. Ile has left legacies to most of the clerks
and others engaged in the bank. He leaves to
his housekeeper the interest of £1,200 and the prin-
cipal to be at her disposal by will, and leaves her
his wardrobe ; and to another servant an annuity of
£2O and a legacy of £5O. The residue he gives to
the said George Whitley, of Fleet-street, his exe-
cutor.—City Press.