The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-01-24
A MILLIONAIRE'S WILL.
The Last VIII and Testament of the Richest
Peer In EnEand-Eight Hundred Thousand
Pouuds PersOuaI Rstnte.

The Inst VIII and Testament of the Richest
Peer In EnEland-Eight Hundred Thousand
Pounds Personal Estate.
From the Illustrated London NeDs.
Probate of the will of the Right Hon.
Richard Grosvenor, Marquis of Westminster,
X. c., p. c., of Eaton Hall, Chester; Mot
combe House, Shaftesbury, Dorset; and
Gresvenor House, London, was granted by
her Majesty's Court of Probate to his relict
the Hon. Elizabeth Mary, Dowager Mar
chioness of Westminster, and his sons-in-law,
the Right Hon. Thomas Augustus Wolsten-
holme, Earl of Macclesfeld, and Sir Michael
Robert Shaw Stewart, Bart, the joint
acting executors. The trustees appointed
are his sons-in-law, Lord Wenlock and
Lord Leigh. The personally was sworn under
$500, OOO. The will is dated April II, 1867,
with five codicils, the last dated August 81,
1868; and his lordship died at Fonthill, Willis,
October 81, 1869, aged "a, leaving two sons
and eight daughters. The bequests are nu-
merous and large To his Private Secretary,
w. r. Glennie, he leaves f400 year; to
George Allen, his Election Agent, G200 a
year; John r. Lyons, e200 year; Samuel
Ullett, e120 a year; George Hughes, his
Halkyn Agent, e100 a year; Thomas Flem-
ing G100 year; John Richmond, his Dor
setshire agent, ESQ year; Ct. L. West, late
porter at the Grosvenor Estate Office, Lon
don, eco year; and to Eleanor, daughter Of
his late agent, w. Batten, of Shaftesbury,
E4O a year; to Lord Ebury his lordships
brother, e2O, 600; to Cecil I. Parker, e10, 900.
He bequeathes to his daughter. Lady
Theodore, on the decease of his
relict, certain estates in Mot
combe; and to his son-in-law, Sir
Michael r. S. Stewart, certain estates in
Wiltshire. His estates in Dorsetshire he
leaves to his son Lord Richard de Aquila
Grosvenor, subject to the Marchioness' life
interest therein, and a provision for his
daughter, Lady Theodore, to whom he has
made an a ppointment in her favor from a
sum of $50, 600 under the will of the first
marquis. He devises to his eldest son, Hugh
Lupus, now Marquis of Westminster, his es-
tates in the county palatine of Chester and
the principality of Wales; and leaves him all
MSS. and books at Eaton Hall, with the gold
torques, armor, stone groups, marble statues,
granite seats, Egyptian figures, together with
all the ordinary household furniture. He
also leaves to his eldest son all the Parlia-
mentary books and papers at Grosvenor
House. and all the furniture of Halkyn Castle,
Flintshire; his thoroughbred stud, his silver
stars, gold ornaments, the onyx George set In
brilliants, court sword, and Count Orloff' s
sabre, Lord Lieutenant and Lord Stewards
uniform, Garter robes, and Parliamentary
robes and coronet There are certain jewels
left to his wife for her life, which, after her
decease, are to revert to the holder of the
title as herlooms. His lordship has made be-
quests by way of remembrance to each of his
daughters. the Duchess of Northumberland,
the Countess of Macclesfeld, Lady Wenlock,
Lady Leigh, Lady Octavia, and Lady Theo-
dora. The residue of his property, real and
personal, he leaves to his wife for life, and,
after her decease, to his son, Lord Richard
de Aquila Grosvenor, absolutely.