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HF41/2/20/39
Title
Bundle of correspondence regarding final dividing of residue of funds left under Will of Charles Powers
Date free text
12 Aug 1927 - 13 Jul 1928
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From: 1927 To: 1928
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Hooper and Fletcher to Andrew etc. suggests additional general fee in addition to agency costs no hesitation in putting forward to our clients, to whom the payment out of this second fund is a windfall which they would never have received had it not been for the joint effort of you and ourselves 13 Aug 1927 Supreme Court Pay Office (copy) miscalculated dividend therefore 13s..2d less than figure above therefore total £3633..3s..4d (half is £1816..1s..8d) 15 Aug 1927 Andrew etc. to Hooper and Fletcher request £10..10s additional fee 15 Aug 1927 Hooper and Fletcher to Andrew etc. cheque for £119..18s..9d payment of Agency costs and additional fee of £10..10s “on which there is of course no question of agency” 16 Aug 1927 Andrew and Company list of 10 documents sent back (probate of Charles Powers – 13 June 1889) 17 Aug 1927 letters regarding Mrs Lindsell’s overdraft at Lloyds Bank, Evesham Branch Major Arthur S Archdale, 2 Tidworth Road, Bulford Camp, Salisbury, Wiltshire requests £100 in advance on Powers money to meet some educational expenses of children 19 Jan 1928 W F A Fletcher to Mrs Lindsell tell son Harold no doubt he will get his share of H M Lindsell portion of C Powers fund “before he leaves for Nigeria” 26 Mar 1928 letters from Hooper and Fletcher to various beneficiaries to C T Lindsell net amount of C S Lindsell estate’s share of C Powers fund £760..16s..9d therefore encloses cheque for £380..8s..5d (C T Lindsell’s share) transferred £351..7s..5d to Colonel R F Lindsell’s trustees (lower of further duties) 3 Apr 1928 to Lloyds Bank, 6 Pall Mall, London SW1 encloses cheques to credit of Colonel W G Lindsell R.A. for £80 and £117..2s..6d 3 Apr 1928 to T E Lindsell £171..10s..9d (ie. half share of H N Lindsell’s 1/8th) (balance for division £343) 3 Apr 1928 Lieutenant Colonel to W G Lindsell, D.S.O.R.A mentions £117..2s..6d (but not regarding £80) which relates to father’s trust 3 Apr 1928 to Mrs Dodson, The Corner House, Caythorpe, Lincoln £80 on division of income in father’s trust for past quarter, and £117..2s..5d (C Powers fund) 3 Apr 1928 to Mrs Nash, Innisfallen, Fermoy, County Cork, Ireland £80, £117..2s..6d as above 3 Apr 1928 to H O Lindsell of Lavernock, Emsworth, Hampshire 1/10th share of late H M Lindsell’s share of C Powers fund £34..6s 3 Apr 1928 Receipt for £380..8s..5d from Charles T Lindsell, Woodside House, Turvey (address till 8th, 20 Wellington Esplanade, Lowestoft, Suffolk) 3 Apr 1928 to Mrs Fletcher, 41 Bushmead Avenue, Bedford divided up H M Lindsell’s share son T E Lindsell gets £171..10s, and £34..6s to other 5 5 Apr 1928 to Mrs Lindsell cheque in favour of Commander A S Lindsell 1/10th share of 1/8th share of H M Lindsell in C Powers fund, £34..6s cheque for same amount for R E Lindsell to Lloyds Bank Limited 10 Apr 1928 requesting draft on Standard Bank at Kimberley, South Africa in favour of Mrs Gwendoline Hansen for equivalent of £34..6s minus expenses 12 Apr 1928 receipt for £34..6s by A S Lindsell, H M S Dolphin Submarine Depot, Gosport Hampshire 13 Apr 1928 to Mrs Hansen, 103 Central Road, Kimberley, South Africa regarding draft on Standard Bank for £34..6s 16 Apr 1928 to J F St Q Archdale, The Laurels, Setley, Brockenhurst £396 one fourth of the balance of your family’s share to G F Archdale encloses cheque for his £396 paying £352 to W Archdale’s Trust will send cheque if wants to divide now 26 Apr 1928 to Major Arthur Archdale of 2 Tidworth Road, Bulford Camp, Salisbury, Wiltshire £396 minus £100 already advanced, balance £296 26 Apr 1928 from A S Archdale thanks Fletcher: “I understand it is entirely due to your persistence in fighting this question on our behalf that the money has been paid over” 27 Apr 1928 from G F Archdale wants W F Archdale Trust money straight away 25 Apr 1928 to G F Archdale encloses 8 cheques of £44 each on W F Archdale’s executors 30 Apr 1928 to C S Orde esquire, Hopton, Great Yarmouth £44 Lady Orde’s 1/8th share on division of capital in late W F Archdale’s estate 7 May 1928 to Manager, Lloyds Bank, 171 Brompton Road, London SW3 cheque for £44 for credit of Mrs L E Wing 7 May 1928 to Mrs Gordon, Long Mead, Wyke Regis, Weymouth, Dorset decided £44 is payable to Mrs Gordon and not to her settlement trustees 6 Jun 1928
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