Document Request: 1935 Will of Lionel de Walden Henry Leycester
Document Description: 1935 Will of Lionel de Walden Henry Leycester who was born at White Place and passed away at Schweizerhof Hotel in Berne in 1943.
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Document Transcription:1935 Will of Lionel de Walden Leycester
Note that the handwriting on this page is almost illegible
In His Majesty’s Court of Justice
The principal probate registry at
BE IT KNOWN THAT Lionel to Walden Henry Leycester of the Wyndham Club 13 St James’s Square Westminster in the County of London
Died on the 16th day of November 1943 at hotel Sweizerhof of Berne Switzerland
And to be at further known that at the date hereunder written the last Will and testament [illegible]
A copy whereof is here onto a next of the said deceased was approved and registered in the principal probate registry of his Majesty’s High court of justice and that administration of all the estate which bylaw devolves to invest in the personal representative of the said deceased was granted by the aforesaid court to Robert Bruere Otter Barry … [illegible]
And it is here by a certified that's an affidavit for Inland Revenue has been delivered wearing it is shown that the gross value of the said estate in Great Britain exclusive of what they said deceased they have been possessed of or entitled to as a trustee and not been officially announced £47572-2-3
Add that the net value of the personal estate amounts to £ 32444-2-3
And it is for a certified that is appears by a receipt signed by an inland revenue officer on the said affidavit that £ 7714-18-8 and account of estate duty and interest on such duty has been paid
Dated the 12th day of May 1940 4
H Coles registrar
Extracted by Vandercom Stanton & Co. Solicitors
35 Spring Gardens London SW1
This is the last Will and testament of me Lionel too old and Henry Leicester of the wind ham club 13 Saint Jameses Square in the city of Westminster Esquire I revoke all wills heretofore made by me and I declare my domicile to be English
1.I appoint Arthur Leycester Penrhyn of Chertsey in the County of Surrey JP, Robert S Otter Barry of Lower Hall Warfield Bridgnorth Shropshire a lieutenant colonel (retired) in His Majesty’s Army and Richard William Barry Bucklund of 35 Spring Gardens Trafalgar Square in the County of London Solicitor to be the EXECUTORS AND TRUSTEES of this my Will (hereinafter called “my Trustees” AND I GIVE to the said Robert S Otter Barry a legacy of £100 free of duty if he shall prove my will.
2. I bequeath to my cousin Phoebe the wife of the said Robert S Otter Barry all my personal chattels as defined by Form 2 of the Statutory Will Forms 1925 free of duty.
3. I give the following pecuniary legacies free of duty
(a) To the said Phoebe Otter Barry the sum of £1000
(b) To my friend Mary Scott Chad the sum of £1000
(c) To my friend Cecilia Scott Chad the sum of £1000
(d) To my friend Catherine Day the sum of £500
(e) To my friend Ronald Clarges Lord St Vincent the sum of £1000
(f) To my cousin Alice Alexander the widow of Jocelyn Alexander deceased the sum of £1000
(g) To my friend Cecil Leonard Jervis of Horton Loughborough the site £500
(h) To my cousin John Norris of Villa Norreys Thonon Haute Savoie France the sum of £250
4. I give devise and bequeath to all the residue of my personal estate and all my real estate on to my trustees upon trust to sell and convert the same into money and after payment they're out of my just debts funeral and testamentary expenses and the legacy is here by bequeathed and the duty their own to stand possessed thereof upon trust for my said cousin Arthur Leycester Penrhyn.
5. I declare that the said Richard William Barry Bucklund or any other person being a solicitor who may be appointed a trustee of this my will shall have power to charge and shall be paid for all professional work done by him or his firm whether in the ordinary course of such business or not including acts which a trustee could have done personally.
In witness whereof I have here unto set my hand this fifth day of September 1930.
Signed by the above named Lionel towards and Henry Leicester the testate all as and for his last will and testament in the presence of us both being present at the same time who in his present at his request and in the presence of each other have here unto subscribed our names as witnesses
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This is a codicil to the will of me Lionel Donald and Henry Leicester of the Wyndham club Saint Jameses Square in the city of Westminster Esquire which will bears date the fifth day of September 1930
In addition to the pecuniary legacies given by my said will I give to Susan the daughter of my cousin Phoebe or to Barry the sum of £1000 free of duty
And whereas I have given the residue of my estate to my cousin Arthur Leycester Penrhyn now I declare that in case the said Arthur Leycester Penrhyn shall predecease me I give the said residue to his brother
In all other respects I confirm my said Will
In witness whereof I have here unto set my hand this third day of October 1935
Lionel de WH Leycester
Signed by the said line all the world and Henry Leicester as and for the codicil to his will in the presence of us both being present at the same time who at his request in his presence and in the presence of each other have here unto subscribed our names as witnesses
Alfred A Smith, 35 Spring Gardens, London, SW1
Clerk to Vandercom Stanton & Co. Solicitors
E Starek, 35 Spring Gardens, London, SW1
Clerk to Vandercom Stanton & Co. Solicitors
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