SOME RECENT WILLS

Evening Star, Issue 14307, 4 March 1910, Page 8

SOME RECENT WILLS

Although the valuation of her vast fortune is not yet complete, the property of tho late Miss Ellen Morrison, of Basildon Park, Pangbourne, sister of the late Mr Charles Morrison (whose property was lately returned for probate at a provisional valuation or £6,006,666), is returned for probate as of the value of " £975,000 as far as at present, can be ascertained." She bequeathed £.30,000 to " my friend and companion, Miss Henrietta Catherine Willmot"; £20,000 (including £IO.OOO in the event of his proving tho will) to Tlobort Cooper (for some years manager to the family's financial affairs); other funis, ranging from £BOO to £5,000, amounting to £12,000 in all, to charities; a life annuity of £IOO each to her maid (Sarah llatton), her butler (William Palmer), her housemaid (Kmilv Farmer), and her coachman (Kichard Hurrel); £IOO,OOO each to four greatnicces, and £50,000 each to six other great nieces; £25,000 each to four nephews and nieces; and sums of £IO,OOO each to a number of other

relatives. Mr Edward Homy Cardwoll, of Hillside, West Horsley, Surrey, and of London and Newmarket, a well-known racehorse owner (raring under the name of Mr E. Carlton) and clubman, a director of the South Metropolitan Gas Company, who dicil at Newmarket on November 20, aged 7(1, left £4,000 each to his nurse and butler, £I,OOO to the Poyal Surrey County Hospital, and £3OO to the Cancer Research 'Association. 'The gross value of his estate was £ll-2,700. Mr George John Mackay, of Kendal, retired manufacturer, J.P. for Westmoreland, who died on November 20, left £I,OOO to his housekeeper upon trust for her for life.