Mildred Ann Glanvill

23 Jun 1843

This is the last Will and Testament
of me Mildred Anne Glanvill of Great Queen Street in the parish of Saint Margaret Westminster Spinster I desire to be buried in the vault under Saint Margarets Church and direct that all myjust debts funeral expenses and costs and charges or proving and executing the trusts of this my will are fully paid and satisfied I give and bequeath unto my niece Caroline Anne Bowles the wife of William Bowles twenty pounds for her separate use independently of the debts rents or arrangments of her husband and for which her receipt alone shall be a discharge in order that she may provide herself with asuitable mourning also independently of the debts contorl or of any arrangements of her husband and for which the receipt alone shall be a sufficient discharge my evening apparel chest of drawers silver chamber candlestick and a *** my boots trinkets and ornaments of the person except my said watch and gold chain and seals which I give and bequeath unto my great niece Emily Ann Bowles to be delivered to her at such age and time as my Executors and her mother shall think proper so that the period be not delayed beyond the time of her attaining twenty one years and should she die under that age and before the watch chain and seals have been actually delivered to her then I give and bequeath the same unto her sister Caroline Mary Bowles I give and bequeath unto my brother in law Simon Stephenson Esquire twenty pounds to my nephew Doctor Thomas William Glanvill fifty pounds to his wife Mrs Catherine Glanvill ten pounds I also give and bequeath to my great niece and Goddaughter Emily Stephenson ten pounds to be invested with any other monies that may now or hereafter be standing in her name in the books of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England or in the name jointly with that of any other person or persons for the benefit I also give and bequeath unto my great niece and Goddaughter Emily Ann Bowles the like sum of ten pounds to be invested with other monies that are now standing for her benefit in the Books of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England in the joint names of the said Simon Stephenson my nephew Edward Simon Stephenson and the said Emily Ann Bowles and I direct that the investment of the legacies so given to my Goddaughters Emily Stephenson and Emily Anne Bowles shall be made within six calendar months after my decease and that such investments shall without any formal receipt or receipts be a sufficent discharge to my said Executors for the said two legagies of ten pounds each I also give and bequeath to my Great niece and Goddaughter Caroline Emma Glanvill the like sum of ten pounds for which the receipt although she may not have attained the full age of twenty one years shall be a good and sufficient discharge I also give and bequeath to my Great nephew Edward Simon Stephenson the sum of twenty five pounds to my Great niece Emily Stephenson twenty give pounds to Emily Stephenson the wife of my nephew Mr Edward Simon Stephenson five guineas for the purchase of a ring in remembrance of me to my Executors hereafter named the sum of twenty pounds each as a small acknowledgement for the trouble they may be put to in carrying into execution the trusts of this my will I also give and bequeath unto my Executors and Trustees hereinafter named the sum of five hundred pounds Bank: trust three pounds ten shillings per cent annuities part of a larger sum of like annuities standing in my name in the Books of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England upon trust to transfer and place out the same in their names or in the name of the survivor of them in some or out of the public stocks or funds of Great Britain transferrable at the Bank of England to to pay the interest and dividends thereof unto my said niece Caroline Anne Bowles for and during the term of her natural life to and for her own sole and separate use independently of and not to be subject to the debts control or arrangments of her present or any future husband and I direct that the receipt or receipts of the said Caroline Anne Bowles alone given under her own hand after the said dividends and interest shall have become on and payable shall notwithstanding her present or any future coverture be a sufficient and the only sufficient discharge for such interest and dividends or so so a such or such part thereof as in any such receipt shall be expressed to have been received and from and after the decease of my said niece upon trust to pay the interest and dividends of such trust monies unto or to apply the same for the benefit of any child or children of my said niece living at the time of her decease either my accumulating the some or any part thereof of towards his her or their maintenance and education or otherwise arriving to the unqualified discretion of my said trustees until such child or children shall attain the age of twenty one years and when and as such child or children shall attain that age then upon trust to tranfser or pay the principal fund equally to and amongst all such children if more than one share and share alike but if one then the whole thereof to such one but should my said niece die without having any child or children her surviving who shall have attained or who shall live to attain the age of twenty one years then upon trust to transfer and pay the said principal fund unto my nephew the said Edward Simon Stephenson for his own use and *** his contingent interest in the said funds to be a vested interest from the time of my decease and as to all the rest residue and remainder of my estate proprty and effects of what nature or kind soever the same may be I give and bequeath on equal moeity or half part thereof to my said Executors and trustees upon the same trusts and to and for the same ends interest and purposes as are hereinbefore directed or shares of and concerning the before mentioned legary or sum of five hundred pounds Bank three and a half per cent annuities hereinfore given and bequeathed to them and I give and bequeath the remaining capital equal moiety or half part of the residue and remainder of my said estate property and effects unto my said nephew the said Edward Simon Stephenson his executors administrators and assigns to and fore this and their own absolute use and benefit and whereas having previously to the marriage of my said niece Caroline Anne Bowles settled upon her in addition to the fortune she was possessed of or intitled to in her own right a sum of one thousand eight hundred and fifty pounds Bank for pounds per cent annuites subject to the life estate of myself in the interest and dividends thereof and which sum of one thousand eight hundred and fifty pounds Bank annuities subject as aforesaid my aid niece having assigned to the said William Bowles previously to and contemplation of the said their intended marriage to and for this one and benefit I do hereby devise my mind and will to be that writing the said William Bowles nor any future husband of my said niece be entitled in his own right or in right of this wife or of her children or on any pressure whatever to call upon the trustees for the time being of this my will or any or either of them for any amount relating to their trust or other part of my estate and further that the trustees or trustee for the time being of this my will shall be at full liberty to pay to my said niece Caroline Anne Bowles as well the interest and dividends of this before mentioned sum of five hundred pounds trust three pounds tens shillings per cent annuities as the interest and dividends of the moeity of the residue of my estate property and effects so as aforesaid bequeathed to a than upon the trusts aforesaid if they or he shall so think fit by equal quarterly or equal monthly sums at their of his discretion chid further I declare my mind and will to be that if the said Caroline Ann Bowles shall sell mortage assign or otherwise part with her life trust in the before mentioned trust funds monies and premises or any part thereof or shall attempt so to do then and from thenceforth the estate and interest hereby intended to be *** to her for life shall absolutley cease amd determine as though she was dead I hereby appoint my brother in law the said Simon Stephenson and my nephew the said Edward Simon Stephenson Executors and Trustees of this my Will and I declare my mind and will to be that the trustee or trustees for the time being of this my will shall have full power and authority to alter tranpose and very the funds or securities wherein any part of my property may be invested from time to time as they may see occasion and if the said Simon Stephenson and Edward Simon Stephenson or either of them or other the trustrees or trustee of this my will for the time being shall die either in my lifetime or after my decease or be desirous to be discharged from or shall decline or become incapable to act in all or any of the trusts hereinbefore reposes in them or shall go to reside out of Great Britain then and in either of the said cases and when and so often as the same shall happen it shall be lawful for the survingin or continuing trustee or the executors administrators of the surviving trustee as the case may be by raiting under his hand and seal to nominate substitute and appoint any other person or persons except the said William Bowles (whom I hereby declare to be ineligible) to be a trustee or trustees in the place or stead of the trustree or trustees who shall so die or be desirous to be discharged from or shall have become incapable to act as aforesaid or shall go to reside out of Great Britain and that all and every such new trustee or trustees *** and may in all things act in the management carring on and executing the trusts aforesaid or any of them or thier aforsaid in conjunction withthe former trustee who shall survive or continue as the case may be as fully and affectively in all respects and to all intents and purposes as though he had been orginally appointed on this my will and that is trustee for the time being shall be chargeable or charged with or accountable for any more of the trust moneies than he shall actually survive nor or or with any loss that may happen to the said trust monies and premises unless such loss shall be occasioned on his wilful neglect or default nor for the acts receipts neglects *ments or default of the other or them notwithstanding he may have joined in signing any receipt for thh sake or conformerly and further that is shall be lawful for the trustees or trustee for the time being of this my will will and out of the trust monies and premises or the dividends interest or income arising therefrom to *** retain to and reinburse themselves respectively and to pay to this cotrustee and any former trustee and the representatives of any deceased trust all such loss costs charges damages and expenses as they or he or any deceased trustee shall suffer bear peary or be put unto for or any reason on means of the trusts aforesaid or any of them or the management or execution thereof or any act matter or thin in any case relating there and hereby revoking all other wills by me at ay time heretofore made I declare this to be my last will and testament in witness whereof I have to this my said will contained in five sheets of paper set my hand this twenty third day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundered and forty three - M A Glanvill - Signed by the said Mildred Anne Glanville the testatrix as and for her last will and testament in the presence and in the presence of each other have subscribed our names as witnesses Thos Brown - W M May clerks to Mr E J Stephenson 12 Great Queen St, St James's Park

This is a codicil to the within written will of me Mildred Ann Glanvill of Great Queen Street in the parish of Saint Margaret Westminster Spinster whereas I have by my said will desired to be buried in the vault under Saint Margarets Church now I do hereby direct instead thereof that my Executors cause me to be buried in Saint Margarets Church yard and if possible in the same Grave with my dear father and whereas it appearing that the watch chain which I have by my said within written will given to my great niece Emily Ann Bowles is therein described to be gold I hereby declare in order to prevent doubt hereafter that the same is so described by mistake it being only gilt I hereby direct that my niece Caroline Anne Bowles shall be at liberty and have power to appropriate with the constent of my executors and trustees for the time being such consent to be testified in writing a part of the trust monies whereof I have within directed the interest and dividends to be paid to her for life for or towards the apprenticing or otherwise placing out her sons Henry Stephenson Bowles and Charles Gardiner Bowles to learn any professoin trade or employment provided that the sume to be so appropriated for or towards the apprenticing or placing out the said Henry Stephenson Bowles do not exceed on hunder pounds sterling and for or towards the apprenticing or placing out the said Charles Gardiner Bowles to not exceed the liek sum of one hundred pounds sterling I hereby nominate and appoint Jervis Robert Bellamy of ffridericks place Graipckin (?)Road in the County of Middlesex Esquire to be an Executor and Trustee of my said will in the room and stead of my brother in law Simon Stephenson Esquire who had lately departed this life and I declare and dreict that he the said Jervis Robert Bellamy *** and be intitled to exercise all the same powers and authorities and have an be intitled to the same benefit under my said will as if he had orginally be named therein an executor and trustee thereof instead of the said Simon Stephenson And I hereby give and invest within named nephew Edward Simon Stephenson and the said Jervis Robert Bellamy andn the survivor of them with the further power and authority writing under their or his hands or hand to nominate and appoint if they or he should think fit one or more person or persons to be associated and to act with them or the survivor of them as trustee or trustees of my said will and I invest the person or persons who shall so nominated an appointed with the same powers and authorities as if he or they had been originally named by me a trustee or trustees of my said Will and I declare that he or they shall have and *** *** to the *** and annuities as the said Edward Simon Stephenson and Jarvis Robert Bellamy and I do hereby in all respects confirm my said Will except so are as the same may be varied by this Codicil in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this seventh day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty four - Mildred Ann Glanvill - signed by the said Mildred Ann Glanvill the testatrix as and for a codicil to her last will and testament in the presence of us present at the same time who at her request in her presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses Thos Brown, N. M. Kecley. Clerks to Mr E J Stephenson 12 Gt Queens Street St James's Park

Proved at London with a codicil 27th May 1846 before the worshipful William Calverley Curtas Doctor of Laws and Surrogate in by the Oath of Edward Simon Stephenson Esquire the nephew the Executor named in the will and Jervis Robert Bellamy Esquire the Executor named in the said Codicil to whom Admon was granted having been first sworn duly to administer