Reference
X948/2/LU1/1
Title
Conveyance
Date free text
25th October 1897
Production date
From: 1897 To: 1897
Scope and Content
Parties:
(i) Eleanor Lucy de Falbe of Luton Hoo Park and 19 Grosvenor Square [Middlesex], widow; Henry Gerard Leigh of 19 Hans Place, London, captain in the 1st Life Guards;
(ii) John Robert Brown of Luton, architect and surveyor
Reciting:
- will of John G Leigh of 15 July 1872 devising (a), amongst other property to Eleanor Lucy de Falbe, his wife (then Eleanor Lucy Leigh) for her life, remainder to the heir at law of John G Leigh;
- death of John G Leigh on 24 February 1875 leaving Henry Blundell Leigh, his brother, as his heir at law and proof of his will in PPR on 21 April 1875;
- Act of Parliament of 38 and 39 Victoria Chapter 3 (Leigh Estates Act 1875) enacting that it was lawful for Eleanor Lucy de Falbe and Henry Blundell Leigh, with approbation of the Court of Chancery, to sell parts of the Leigh Estate;
- death of Henry Blundell Leigh on 19 August 1875 leaving his eldest son Henry Gerard Leigh as his heir at law;
- Eleanor Lucy Leigh married Christian Frederick de Falbe on 4 December 1883;
- Order in Chancery of 25 July 1891 in Leigh v Leigh 1875 L65 by which Henry George Leigh was appointed trustee of the Leigh Estate Act 1875 in substitute for Henry Blundell Leigh and additional to Eleanor Lucy de Falbe;
- death of Christian Frederick de Falbe on 27 May 1896;
- agreement of 21 July 1897 by (i), provisional to agreement by Chancery, to sell to (ii);
- Order in Chancery of 7 August 1897 agreeing to the sale
Operative Part:
- (i) conveyed land in first schedule to (ii) for £3,850
1st Schedule [shown on included plan]
six pieces of land in Luton amounting to 8 acres, 2 roods, 21 poles including pieces of: (1) 1 acre, 1 rood, 10 poles; (2) 1 acre, 1 rood, 25 poles; (3) 2 acres, 16 poles; (4) 2 roods, 20 poles; (5) 2 roods, 35 poles; (6) 2 acres,1 rood, 35 poles covering Albert Road, Baker Street, Cowper Street and Harcourt Street
Schedule 2: provisos to the agreement to be performed by (ii):
- within two years to complete and make up all roads in continuation of Albert Road from Cowper Street W for 520 feet, in continuation of Harcourt Street S for 540 feet, in continuation of Cowper Street S for 130 feet; the roads to be 36 feet wide;
- to make and maintain an iron fence more than 6 feet high across SE end of Baker Street to prevent use of the street from S;
- (i) at liberty to remove a fence on SW side of the 8 acres, 2 roods, 21 poles conveyed, if so (ii) to build a barbed wire fence on SE and SW sides of the land;
- (ii) to sewer, metal, pave, flag and channel Baker Street
Witnesses:
- Thomas Keech[?] of 1 Bedford Row, London, solicitor;
- Katherine Mary Drummond of Misbourne, Chalfont Saint Giles [Buckinghamshire];
- Ernest H Nicholls, clerk to Henry Cumberland Brown of Luton, solicitor
Endorsed memorandum of conveyance of 18 November 1897 by John Robert Brown to Harry Isaac Sell and Henry Impey of Luton, of portions of the land
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