SIR ROBERT STOUT.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20022, 2 September 1930, Page 12

SIR ROBERT STOUT.

PROVISIONS OF WILL. (Mill ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) WELLINGTON, September 1. Probate of the will of the late Sir Robert Stout, iormerly Chief Justice of New Zealand, has been granted by Mr Justice Reed, the estate being sworn at a value of under £20,000. The trustees and executors are Sir Robert's sons, Mr John Logan Stout, S.M.. of Palmerston North, Dr. Robert Stout, and Dr. Thomas Duncan Macgregor Stout, of Wellington. The will Bain Hospital in Lerwick, Shetland Isles, and £IOO to the Lerwick Primary School. The latter devise directs that the money be invested by the schoolmaster and the yearly income expended as a prize to the best pupil in work and character each year. The residue of the estate is to be divided among his children, John Logan Stout, Robert Stout, Thomas Duncan Macgregor Stout, Olaf Stout, aiid Janet Osla Holmden. To his children also Sir Robert left in equal shares all liis printed and published writings of his own authorship, and all his pictures. The remainder of his books are to be divided bv the trustees in such manner as they consider suitable between Victoria College University and any primary or secondary schools in New Zealand. To the Shetland Society of Wellington Sir Robert bequeathed all his books, maps, and literature dealing with Norway and Orkney and Shetland Islands and with Scandinavian lore.

Sir Robert was a native of Lerwick, county town of the Shetland Islands. His father was a merchant and landed proprietor, who sent his son, Robert, to the bfi-st school in the island, one which ranked high among the academies of Northern Scotland.