VINDICTIVE WILLS.
One of the most vindictive wills on record was that of the famous Lord Kew, a very wealthy peer of strict principles and acrid temper, who, having no wife or children to annoy, took it out of his brothers, nephews, and other expectant kinsfolk by his carefully-word-ed testamentary dispositions. One item, for instance, ran : "By a previous will I had left £50,000 to my brother John, but as- he has sent his son to Oxford instead of Cambridge, contrary to my, expressed wish, I reduce the leeacv to £500." 8 * Henry Budd, who died in 1862, gave proof in his will of a prejudice against moustaches. "In case my son Edward shall wear moustaches," he stipulated, "then the devise hereinbefore contained in favour of him of/ my estate called Pepper Park, shall be void ; and I> devise the same estate to my son William, his appointees, heirs and assigns. And in case my said son William shall wear moustaches,' then the devise hereinbefore contained in favour of him, of my estate called Twickenham Park, shall be void; and I devise the same estate to my son Edward."
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Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 86, 9 October 1915, Page 12
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189VINDICTIVE WILLS. Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 86, 9 October 1915, Page 12
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