The Evening Telegraph

A MILLIONAIRE'S WILL

The Last Will and Testament of the Richest Peer In England—Eight Hundred Thousand Pounds Personal Estate.

From the Illustrated London News.

Probate of the will of the Right Hon. Richard Grosvenor, Marquis of Westminster, K. G., P. C., of Eaton Hall, Chester; Motcombe House, Shaftesbury, Dorset; and Grosvenor House, London, was granted by her Majesty's Court of Probate to his relict, the Hon. Elizabeth Mary, Dowager Marchioness of Westminster, and his sons-in-law, the Right Hon. Thomas Augustus Wolstenholme, Earl of Macclesfield, and Sir Michael Robert Shaw Stewart, Bart., the joint acting executors. The trustees appointed are his sons-in-law, Lord Wenlock and Lord Leigh. The personalty was sworn under £800,000. The will is dated April 17, 1867, with five codicils, the last dated August 31, 1868; and his lordship died at Fonthill, Wilts, October 31, 1869, aged 74, leaving two sons and eight daughters. The bequests are numerous and large. To his Private Secretary, W. R. Glennie, he leaves £400 a year; to George Allen, his Election Agent, £200 a year; John R. Lyons, £200 a year; Samuel Ullett, £120 a year; George Hughes, his Halkyn Agent, £100 a year; Thomas Fleming, £100 a year; John Richmond, his Dorsetshire agent, £80 a year; G. T. West, late porter at the Grosvenor Estate Office, London, £60 a year; and to Eleanor, daughter of his late agent, W. Batten, of Shaftesbury, £40 a year; to Lord Ebury, his lordship's brother, £20,000; to Cecil T. Parker, £10,000. He bequeathes to his daughter, Lady Theodora, on the decease of his relict, certain estates in Motcombe; and to his son-in-law, Sir Michael R. S. Stewart, certain estates in Wiltshire. His estates in Dorsetshire he leaves to his son Lord Richard de Aquila Grosvenor, subject to the Marchioness' life interest therein, and a provision for his daughter, Lady Theodora, to whom he has made an appointment in her favor from a sum of £50,000 under the will of the first marquis. He devises to his eldest son, Hugh Lupus, now Marquis of Westminster, his estates in the county palatine of Chester and the principality of Wales: and leaves him all MSS. and books at Eaton Hall, with the gold torques, armor, stone groups, marble statues, granite seats, Egyptian figures, together with all the ordinary household furniture. He also leaves to his eldest son all the Parliamentary books and papers at Grosvenor House, and all the furniture of Halkyn Castle, Flintshire: his thoroughbred stud, his silver stars, gold ornaments, the onyx George set in brilliants, court sword, and Count Orloff's sabre, Lord-Lieutenant and Lord Steward's uniform, Garter robes; and Parliamentary robes and coronet. There are certain jewels left to his wife for her life, which, after her decease, are to revert to the holder of the title as heirlooms. His lordship has made bequests by way of remembrance to each of his daughters, the Duchess of Northumberland, the Countess of Macclesfield, Lady Wenlock, Lady Leigh, Lady Octavia, and Lady Theodora. The residue of his property, real and personal, he leaves to his wife for life, and after her decease, to his son, Lord Richard de Aquila Grosvenor, absolutely.