• Reference
    GK65/27
  • Title
    Copy of Will of Jn Collett of Upper Belgrave St., Belgrave Sq., Middlesex, Esq. Servants mourning dress - establishment to be kept up for 6 mths after his decease Executors and Trustees :- Jos Wm Thrupp of Brook St., Grosvenor Sq. Middlesex, Gent. Ol Vill Manager of London & Westminster Bank St. James Sq. MIddlesex. Wm Batty of Charles St. St. James, Middlesex - Gent. 82 High St. Southwark, Surrey now in occ by Craster Humble under lease to him if tenant on his death is not to whoever is. Copyhold & leasehold property at (Steeple) Morden Cambs. (devised unto him by his father) to his tenant Thos. Stickland or whoever is tenant on his decease. Copyhold at Hemel Hempstead, Herts. to widow of George Laker or whoever is tenant on his death residue to be named Trustees forsale. (wife Ermingarde and dau Charlotte Eustatia right to buy pictures etc.) Immediate legacies : wife - 2,500 dau - 1,000 in addit 972.8s.2d. 3% consolidated Bank Annunities of 9,115.17s.3d and 3.5% Annunities (under settlement made with her late Mother) to any child by present wife 10,000 on 21 years old or on day of marriage of a dau. Trustees 2,000 if prove will Derwenter Radcliffe of Strand, wife's uncle 1,500 Rev Hen Clifford Radcliffe, wife's bro 1,000 Geo Wright of Edingburgh, formerly Collett's Mercantile agent 1,000. Geo Lainbridge Denman, Agent & Reciever 1,000 Jas King if in Collet's service 500 Executors 1,000 to be div equally among all other servants. Royal Humane Society 1,000 Liverpool Financial Reform Assn. (Instituted 20 Apr. 1848) (of which Robertson Gladstone Esq is new President) 1,000) St. George's Hospital, Hyde Park Corner 1,000) Executors 5,000 to relieve people imprisoned for non-payment of fines under Games Laws (to cover 5 yrs previously - no payment to exceed 19 guineas) 5 years after death residue to purchase annunities to wife and dau. He died 28 Nov. 1856 Proved under 80,000 [This record was transferred to the Cambridgshire Record Office at Cambridge. Contact them for more details]
  • Date free text
    17 Dec 1856
  • Production date
    From: 1856 To: 1856
  • Level of description
    item