BARONET’S GRATITUDE

Southland Times, Issue 21288, 8 January 1931, Page 3

BARONET’S GRATITUDE

BIG GIFT TO VALET. “SERVICE I CAN NEVER REPAY.” Sir Charles William Evcrard Cradock Hartopp, Bart., First Secretary of the British Legation, Teheran, Persia, who lately died at the age of 36, left estate in his disposition of the gross value of £116,403 (net personalty £115,785). z Sir Charles left £l5OO to his mother and £lOO to each of two executors, one-half of his estate other than settled funds known as the Hartopp Trust Funds to his mother, and one-third to his sister, Susan Cynthia Francis Drummond; and one-sixth to his valet, Granville Owen Sampson, “whom I have known for some years and who has rendered me a service which I can never repay.” He also left to Mr Sampson as personal legacies his silyer wrist watch and his wearing apparel. Sir Charles adds that if he should have succeeded to the enjoyment and disposition of the Hartopp Trust Funds he left from those funds the following further bequests: —£looo and a life annuity of £lO4 to Mr Sampson; £5OOO absolutely and £15,000 upon trust for his sister and her issue; a life annuity of £5OO to his mother, a further £lOO to each executor, and the balance upon trust for his uncle,- Frederic Cradock Hartopp, for life, with remainder to such son of his uncle as should succeed to the baronetcy.