Reference
HG9/7
Title
Draft of the will of Henry Hugh Higgins, master of arts, of 29 Falkner Square Liverpool and Turvey Abbey, Beds, clerk in holy orders.
Date free text
13 May 1889
Production date
From: 1889 To: 1889
Scope and Content
Sons, Henry Longuet Higgins, Charles Longuet Higgins, Francis Horace Longuet Higgins, and daughter, Helen Maude Longuet Higgins executors.
- to wife: all plate, Byzantine pictures, silver inkstand, crackleware jars, large shell cabinet in dining room and group of Pecter shells.
- to son Henry: skeleton clock, King Edward VI prayer book, family bible, all addresses, papers, notebooks and manuscripts, gold ring, violin, group of Marginella shells.
- to daughter Edith: rosewood piano, study table, group of cone shells.
- to daughter Theresa: small mahogany shell cabinet in dining room with the shells therein.
- to daughter Maude: shell cabinet with glass doors, second microscope, group of Cowry shells.
- to son Charles: large microscope, telescope, gyroscope, collections of mosses and lichens and group of Olive shells.
- to daughter Mildred: study piano, writing desk and group of strombus [?] shells.
- to son Horace: gold watch and chain.
- to wife and all children the rest of books to be divided between them. Ernest desire that none of the foregoing bequests shall be disposed of out of the family.
- wife rest of furniture and household effects at 29 Falkner Square and remainder of natural history collections.
- rest of personal estate to trustees to provide income for wife in addition to marriage settlement. Residuary personal estate to be held in trust for sons Charles and Horace.
- Turvey Manor, mansion house and contents, all other hereditaments in Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire to son Henry Longuet Higgins subject to the life trust of Helen Eliza Higgins in the mansion house and the payment of annuities to Helen Eliza Higgins and his sister Mary Steventon and to further annunities [detailed] to wife, daughters Maude, Mildred, Theresa and Edith and sons Charles and Horace.
- House at Turvey called The Laws House with land belonging thereto to son Henry Longuet Higgins until the death of Helen Eliza Higgins and then to son Charles.
- House at Turvey called Holmwood with land belonging thereto to son Henry Longuet Higgins until the death of Helen Eliza Higgins and after her death to son Francis Horace Longuet Higgins.
Trustees to hold sums payable to Theresa and apply same to her maintenance.
Power to invest.
Level of description
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