AN INTERESTING WILL.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1039, 31 January 1911, Page 9

AN INTERESTING WILL.

, 'Louisa- Jjjid.yydet Kothsohild,. widow of Sir Anthony 'tie Kotlischild,' of'. Aston Clinton, left unsettled property of the valuo of £167,255 (says, an English w-riter):i Site left.a numbcr.ot bequeststo Oc\yish and .other charities, bub the chief feature of the will is the largo number of servants arid former servants and employees who have been remembered. Her housekeeper, Mrs. Hickin,. receives £400, and.lier cook, Mrs. Ware, £300; her maid, Mrs. Staoey, and the butler, Peter Evans, £250 each; while tho housemaid, Mary Howell, the footman, Henry. Warner, aiid tho head gari ener Warren, ca'ch receive £200. Christine Dennis, her stillroom-nmid, and her head carpenter,-Ashdown, both got £150,' tho coachman, Urban Peppier, £120, her agent at Aston Clinton, Feltoii Harvey 'Bathurst,. £100, the housemaid, Mary Stevenson, and the gardener, James, Rolfo, tlio same sum. £50. is left to her gardener Fowler, £30 to her footman, Henry Fountain, and £20' to her. former lady's maid, Miss Rooke. , There is £50 for Miss Jessie P.eek, mistress of tho.Aston Clinton Schools, and £20 each to Miss Amy Peek and Miss Lewis, mistresses of Halton Schools and Aston Clinton Infants' School. The lifo annuities and-pensions left by Louisa Lady do Kotlischild include:—£Bo to h<y former hall porter, Charles Nash; £80 to Leonie Coragotl, daughter of her former governess; £50 to her former cook, "Roubaudie; £40 to Edward Hayward, formerly coachman and stud groo.ni at Astoii Clinton; £36 to Mrs.' G. Peppier; widow of her former coachman; £30 to her laundrytoaid, Anne Baxter; £26 each to her under-cook, Charles Rolfc, and her laundrymaid Clara Wareham;- £20 to Miss Sumner, formerly schoolmistress at Halton; £10 to her night watchman, Bates; £5 to tho mother of her said nightwatcliman"; 15s. per week to Joseph Phipps and his wife during-their joint lives, with remainder to the survivor for life; 10s. per week eaoh to Dan Bilbey, Thomas Bracklpy, Joseph Brandon, and H. Clark; 6s. 6d. per week to William Thorne; 6s. por .week each to Mrs. Fountain, Mrs. Howlett, Mrs.. Keen, and J. Sharp; ss. per. week to J. Stratford ; 4s. per week to Lily Axtell; 10s. Bd. por month to Mrs. Chappin; Bs. Bd. per month each to Mrs-. _ Fowler and Mrs. Stratful. Such detailed 'thoughtfulness is rare, and is an example which niay 'be followed with advantage by ladies well endowed with money. ■