Reference
X948/2/LU1/3
Title
Conveyance
Date free text
22 October 1898
Production date
From: 1898 To: 1898
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;
(iii) Harry Isaac Sell and Henry Impey of Luton, house agents
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 17 June 1898 by (i), provisional to agreement by Chancery, to sell to (ii);
- Order in Chancery of 16 July 1898 agreeing to the sale;
- since then (ii) agreed with (iii) to sell for £90;
- (i) on 6 August 1898 deposited £9 into court to credit of (iii) at request of (ii) who paid £81 into court on 10 October 1898
Operative Part:
- (i), by direction of (ii), conveyed (a) to (iii) for £90
Property [as shown on included plan]:
(a) land in a new street about to be formed as extension of Albert Road containing 88 poles bounded: NE by continuation of Albert Road with frontage of 70 feet; NE by land lately conveyed by (ii) to (iii) measuring 320 feet; SE by Luton Hoo Estate measuring 82 feet; SW by land intended to be conveyed by (i) as a site for Saint Paul’s vicarage measuring 318 feet
Witnesses:
- Thomas Keech[?] of 1 Bedford Row, ln, solicitor;
- William Hensler of 17 Mound Street [London], footman;
- Douglas Edwin Cooke of Luton, solicitor;
- Ernest H Nicholls, clerk to Henry Cumberland Brown of Luton, solicitor
Endorsed memoranda:
- conveyance of 4 November 1898 by Harry Isaac Sell and Henry Impey to Thomas Neville and Edward Neville of Luton, builders of land fronting Saint Paul’s Road measuring 210 feet;
- conveyance of 26 April 1899 by Harry Isaac Sell and Henry Impey to James Clark of Luton, coffee hall proprietor of land fronting Albert Road extension at rear of land fronting Saint Paul’s Road measuring 117 feet in length
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