The Sun.
London, England, 1866-01-15 00:00:00

RECENT WILLS AND BEQUESTS•

(From the Illustrated London News.)
The will of the Hon. Thomas Robert Baron Dims-
dale, of Camfield-place, near Hatfield, Herts, was
proved in London on the 22d Dec. ; the executors
appointed being Lucinda Baroness Dimsdale, the
relict ; Major-General Henry Mackinnon, the son-
in-law ; and Mr. George Manning, the brother-in-
law. The personalty was sworn under £12,000.
The will is dated Aug. 27, 1861, and a codicil May
5, 1865. His lordship was the eldest son of the
previous Baron Dimsdale, and was authorised to
assume in England his Russian title of nobility, to
which he succeeded in 1825. He held the office of
deputy-lieutenant for Herts, and had been high
sheriff for that county, and was a magistrate for
Herts and Essex, and for the liberty of St.
Albans. He married in 1819, and died on the 21st
of November last at the age of 69. His will is
dated Aug., 1861, and a codicil, May, 1865. Ho
bequeaths to his wife, the baroness, a►ll his property,
real and personal (the Camfield estate is entailed
upon his four daughters, under deed of re-settle-
ment.) His real estates are situate in the counties of
Herts and Devon. Certain funded property, under
marriage settlement, and also under the will of Lady
Ximenes, and other reversionary interest, to which
his late son, Henry Dimsdale, was entitled, had been
transferred to him, which he has bequeathed to his
daughter, Finetta Esther Tarleton. He has recom-
mended, though he does not make it obligatory, that
his wife the baroness, should she dispose of the pro-
perty by will, should do so in the manner he has di-
rected in his will, had she not survived him. The
will of Mr. Fonblanque, Chief Commissioner in the
Court of Bankruptcy, formerly residing at St.
John's-wood, and late of Brighton, was proved in
London on the 28th ult., and the personalty sworn
under £7,000. The executors appointed are Mr.
Albany Fonblanque, the son ; Mr. Edward William
Cox, his son-in-law ; and Mr. Thomas L'Estrange
Ewen, of the Inner Temple, barrister. The will is
dated Aug. 5, 1865, and the testator died on Nov.
3, at the age of 78. He leaves to his son John an
annuity and the portion of his books which he may
select ; the rest of his books and the remainder of
his property, real and personal, he leaves between
his son Albany and his daughter, Rosa Cox, and
their children. The will of Mr. Joseph Tussaud,
of 58, Baker-street, Portman-square, was proved
in London under £40,000 personalty. The execu-
tors and trustees are Henry Jonathan Riches, soli-
citor, King's Bench-walk, and William David
Kenny, Doctor of Philosophy. The will bears date
July 8, 1865, and he died Aug. 15, at the age of 68.
The daugher is the principal legatee. There are a
few complimentary legacies to the executors and
some relatives and friends, and he directs that his
daughter should distribute the sum of £2OO in such
a manner as she thinks proper amongst the em-
ploye's in the exhibition in sums not exceeding £lO
to each person ; and, as concerns the exhibition of
waxwork, the same is to be carried on and con-
ducted under the terms and covenants of a deed of
partnership entered into, in 1864, between himself,
his brother Francis, his daughter Louisa E. Kenny,
and Joseph Tussaud. He directs that out of his
real and personal estate a sum of £7,000 shall be
reserved for his two grandchildren, Charles and
Anne Abud, the issue of his deceased daughter
Mary. The residue of his real and personal estate
.-- &Ala zaiu uo.uguter, LOUISA
Elizabeth Kenny, the wife of the said Dr. W. D.
Kenny.