The Sun.
London, England, 1861-12-16 00:00:00

WILLS AND BEQULS2S.

The will of the late Right Hon. Anne, Dowager
Countess of Newburgh, of Slindon House, Arundel,
Sussex, relict of the fifth Earl of Newburgh, was
administered to by Sir Henry Webb, Bart., her
ladyship's nephew, the residuary legatee, the exe-
cutors, P. H. Howard, Esq., and Sir Thomas R.
Gage, Bart., having renounced probate. The per-
sonalty was sworn under £14,000. The will bears
date Oct. 6, 1858, and the grant was issued from
the Court at Chichester. The testatrix, who married
the Earl of Newburgh in 1789, attained to a very
venerable age, died possessed of a large fortune, the
principal of it consisting of valuable landed pro-
perty and freehold estates. The directions contained
in the will are numerous. To Viscount Kinnaird,
Marquis Bandini, and heir to the earldom, are
devised the estates in Gloucester and Northumber-
land ; and to Robert Blount, Esq., the estates in
Sussex. All other the real estates, including the
manor of Eartham, Sussex, together with the resi-
due of the personalty, are bequeathed to her lady-
ship's nephew, Sir Henry Webb, Bart. The
pecuniary dispositions are legacies to personal
friends ; and the annuities and bequests to her lady-
ship's servants, some of them being old and faithful
domestics of her establishment, are most liberal.
The charities are of a religious character, embracing
ISCh,
-,ols for education, &c.
The of Sir John Forbes, M.D., D.C.L.,
ian to her Majesty's Household and
F.R.S., Phys::
hness the Prince Consort, was
to his Royal 111.,;
on. the 27th ult., by his son,
proved in London,
Alexander Clark Fortis, Esq., of Whitchurch,
al-2EI the personalty sworn
Oxford, the sole executor;
under £5,000. The will was executed in 1858, and
a codicil in the year following ; anJ Sir John died
on the 13th of November last, in his seventy-
fourth year. This well-known physician has left
his property, real and personal, to his only son,
after making a few bequests, same pecuniary and
others consisting of books and various effects. To
the Medical Benevolent Fund and the Royal Medi-
cal Benevolent College, legacies of £lOO each ; to
the medical library, Marischal College, Aberdeen,
his books on medical subjeets such as may not be
selected by his son ; his leasehold school cottage to
the present occupier for life, and afterwards to the
minister of Fordyce and the schoolmaster of the
parish school, to appropriate the annual rent in the
purchase of suitable books as prizes to the three
best boys of that school. There are a few legacies
to servants.
The will of William Stevens Richardson, Esq.,
formerly of Tanfield-court, Temple, but late of
Dorset-place, Marylebone, was proved on the
20th ult. by Henry Hobhouse, Esq., Rev. E. A.
Illingworth, M.A., and W. S. Cookson, Esq., execu-
tors and trustees. The personally was sworn under
£30,000. The will, with a codicil, bears date in
1859. Mr. Richardson was the brother-in-law of
the Right Rev. G. A. Selwyn, D.D., Lord Bishop
of New Zealand, to whose wife (the testator's
sister), in conjunction with his lordship, a life in-
terest in the handsome fortune of the testator is
bequeathed, their two sons receiving it absolutely
on the decease of their parents. There is a legacy
of £5OO to the Rev. C. Walford, M.A., together
with some paintings, books, &c., and a few other
pecuniary legacies to friends, and to his former
laundress a weekly allowance of 12s. for life. To
his nephew, William Selwyn, he bequeaths the can-
delabra presented to the testator's father by King
George IV. and the University of Cambridge; and
also the salver presented by certain members of
"Nobody's" Club. The testator has bequeathed a
valuable collection of classical and other works of
antiquity to the Cathedral Library ;of New Zea-
land, this bequest is to be free of legacy duty—
gto(r“ted hyndori ifews.