• Reference
    Z826/3/21
  • Title
    Office copy of the will of J H Twamley of 31 Devon Road, Bedford, Esquire. 1.appoints Dennis Smart of 35 Park Hill Road, Wellington, Surrey and Richard Alfred Harman of 64 Clarence Road Windsor, Berkshire as Executors and Trustees. 2.Pecuniary legacies without duty: - to each Trustee 100 -Lolo Adams (god-daughter) 100 - Florence Hoddle of 20 Palmerston Street, Bedford 80 - Gladys Mary Chandler of St Kilda, Shakespeare Road, Bedford 60 -Mrs Frank Cooper of Ivy Lane, Wilstead, Beds 50 -May Dazeley of Bedford Billiard Hall, Castle Lane, Bedford (whose fianc fell in battle) 150 - Jessie L Setchell of 16 Spencer Road, Bedford 50 - Hilda Keep, now in my service 20 - Mrs Herbert Wright of 1 Argyll Street, Bedford 20 - Agnes Hunter of Hapland, George Street, Daybrook, Nottingham 25 -Alice Beard of The Bungalows, Bromham, Bedford 25 -Mrs Burgess of 17 Glebe Road, Bedford 25 -Frederick King of 37 Bower Street, Bedford 25 -Joe Starkie of 2 Clifton Street, Blackburn, Lancashire and Sidney Berry of 16 Freckleton Street Blackburn, Lancashire (in appreciation of their heroic action on the eighteenth day of July 1921 on Grasmere lake) 100 each. -Margaret Haig Smellie, 29 Adelaide Square, Bedford 50 - Distressed Gentlefolk's Association, 74 Brook Green, London, of which I was formerly a Treasurer 100 3.Daughter Beatrice Twamley two blue cloisonn vases 4.As wished by late wife Mildred Twamley to the Trustees of the National Trust six framed prints of the English Lakes (dated 1791) to be hung at Allan Bank, Grasmere, bearing the inscription "Bequeathed by the late Mrs Herbert Twamley grand-daughter of the Late Thomas Damson of Allan Bank." 5.-Rosamond and Kathleen Twamley (sisters) annuity of 50 in equal quarterly payments 6.-'Personal Chattels' to Trustees to permit wife Marion Ada Twamley the use and enjoyment of during her life , keeping them insured against loss or damage. 7.Trustees possessed of investments and the annual income to go to Marion Ada Twamley during her life, then to Beatrice Twamley and then grand-daughter Delia Wray Twamley at the age of 21 years. 8. Trustees have unrestricted powers of investing and transposing investments. Signed: J Herbert Twamley (typewritten) Witnessed: H N Tebbs, Solicitor, Bedford,(typewritten)E J Bird, Clerk to Messrs Tebbs & Son, Bedford (typewritten).
  • Date free text
    21 Sept 1948
  • Production date
    From: 1948 To: 1948
  • Exent
    No. of pieces: 1
  • Level of description
    item