| Will of Percy Lea Rawes of Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire. Made 30th August 1939. Proved Oxford 31st March 1954. (Lisbon Line) |
[Page 1:] [handwritten top of page] Laura M. Rawes, James C.L. Rawes, R.G.Gulland; Executors, and J.W. Harris, a Commissioner for Oaths. I Percy Lea Rawes formerly of Clay Hill now of Sucents [sic], Berkhamsted in the County of Hertford, Schoolmaster hereby revoke all former Wills and declare this to be my last Will and Testament. I confirm the Settlement dated the twelfth day of August One thousand nine hundred and nineteen (whereof the Public Trustee is the Trustee) made on my marriage. 2. I appoint my wife Laura Minnie Rawes and my friends Cecil Herbert Stuart Fifoot of Hertford College, Oxford and Robert George Gulland of Berkhamsted School (hereinafter together called my Trustees) to be the Executors and Trustees of this my Will. 3. I bequeath the following legacies each free of all duties: To my said wife for her own use and benefit absolutely the sum of £500 to be paid to her as soon as possible after my death out of the first moneys coming into the hands of my Trustees and in priority to all other bequests contained in this my Will or any Codicil hereto. To my godchild and niece Joan Muriel Daubeny the sum of fifty pounds. 4. I also bequeath to my said wife for her own use and benefit absolutely and free of all duties my motor car and all my furniture and articles of household garden domestic or personal use or ornament. 5. I give to my Trustees free of all duties the sum of five hundred pounds Upon Trust to invest the same and to stand possessed thereof and of the investments for the time being representing the same Upon Trust to pay an income thereof [sic] to my said wife during her life for her own use and benefit absolutely and from and after her death I direct that the said sum of £500 or the investments for the time being representing the same or
[Page 2] 6. I give devise bequeath and appoint all the residue of my property both real and personal whatsoever and wheresoever unto my Trustees Upon Trust to sell call in and convert into money the same or such parts thereof as shall not consist of ready money and thereout [sic] and out of my ready money to pay my just debts funeral and testamentary expenses and the legacies bequeathed by this my Will or any codicil thereto and the duties on such as are bequeathed free of duty and to invest the residue of such moneys and to stand possessed thereof and of the investments for the time being representing the same (herein called my residuary estate) upon the trusts and with under [sic] and subject to the powers and provisions following that is to say. (1) Upon Trust to pay the net annual income thereof to my said wife for her own use and benefit absolutely during her life. (2) And from and after her death to stand possessed of my residuary estate and of the income thereof Upon Trust for such of my children as shall be living at my death and being male attain the age of 21 years or female attain that age or marry and if
[Page 3:] (3) Provided always that if any child of mine shall have died in my lifetime leaving a child or children living at my death who being male attain the age of twenty one years or being female attain that age or marry then and in every such case such last mentioned child or children shall take and if more than one equally between them. the share in my residuary estate which has her or their parent would have taken such parent had survived me and attained a vested interest. I empower my Trustees to postpone the conversion of any part of my property for so long as they in their absolute discretion shall think fit and to ----- any of my investments existing at my death including any real or leasehold property without being responsible for any loss occasioned thereby and so that no reversionary interest be sold unless my Trustees see special reason therefore. And I direct that the income of any property remaining unconverted and howsowever invested shall from my death be paid and applied in the same manner as the income of the proceeds thereof would have been applicable for the time being of the same had been converted and in no conversion or other property not actually producing income shall be treated as producing income for the purposes of this my Will and all dividends and interest paid after my death notwithstanding they may have been earned or accrued during my period price thereto shall be treated as income and not as capital. In witness whereof I have to this my Will contained in this and the two preceding sheets of paper hereunto set my hand the thirtieth day of August One thousand nine hundred and thirty nine. Signed by the said Testator in his presence and by us at the same time in his: P. Lea Rawes [signed]
Kenneth R Webb,
[Page 4:] 1. I desire to be cremated and my ashes scattered to the winds. 2. I revoke the appointment of my friend Cecil Herbert Stuart Fifoot as one of the Executors and Trustees of my Will. And I appoint my son James Charteris Lea Rawes to be an Executor and Trustee of theis my said Will in the place of the said Cecil Herbert Stuart Fifoot and to act jointly with my wife Laura Minnie Rawes and my friend Robert George Gulland. 3. I revoke the legacy of £50 bequeathed by my said Will to my godchild and niece Joan Muriel Daubeny. 4. I bequeath to my son the said James Charteris Lea Rawes for his own use and benefit absolutely my personal small chest of drawers and also my large chest of drawers and the bureau now in my study. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand the day and year first above written. Signed by the said Percy Lea Rawes as a Codicil to his last Will in our joint presence and by us at the same time in his. P. Lea Rawes
Kenneth R. Webb, [in the left margin is written] Laura M. Rawes, James C.L. Rawes, R.G.Gulland Executors [and] J.M.Harris. A Commissioner for Oaths. [Notes by the transcriber Bryant G Bayliffe in square brackets September 2010] Transcribed by Bryant Bayliffe, 2010 |