• Reference
    X880/4/1
  • Title
    Copy Will of Mrs Mary Elizabeth Lovell, wife of William George Lovell of Bedford, appointing her husband and her friend John William Gulland of 8 Claremont Crescent, Edinburgh, as her trustees and executors and devising unto her husband all her personal possessions, and all her personal estate to both her trustees in trust for sale; the proceeds to be invested for declared trusts, including "the founding and endowment of Almshouses in or near the Borough of Bedford to be called the Sydney Howard Lovell Almshouses and to be occupied by and used for the benefit of a certain number of aged and infirm poor persons being inhabitants of the Borough of Bedford". Other beneficiaries include her sisters, Agnes Ryland, Kate Rollason, Grace Rollason, and her sister-in-law Caroline Lovell. Noted M.E.L. died on 24 Dec 1902.
  • Date free text
    25 Nov 1901
  • Production date
    From: 1901 To: 1901
  • Level of description
    item