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The will of the late Rev. George Archdall-Gratwicke, D.D., late Master of Emmanuel College, in the University of Cambridge, and Canon of Norwich, who died Sept. 16 last, aged eighty-four, was proved in London, on the 19th ult., under £180,000 personalty in England, by the Rev. Robert Vernon Carter Kin-dleside (the nephew of the testator’s late wife, and son of Major-General R. R. Kindleside) and Clement Francis, Esq., of Cambridge, the general executors; Henry Montgomery Archdall, Esq., being appointed executor for the property in Ireland. The will is dated Jan. 7, and a codicil Sept. 8, both executed in this 1 year. The learned Doctor has left 'several legacies to friends and to individuals connected with the college. To Emmanuel College he has left £6,000. To the following institutions—viz., Addenbrook Hospital, Cambridge Refuge for Females, Old Charity Schools of Cambridge ; Blind Hospital, Norwich; and the Commissioners for the Sick Poor, of Norwich, he leaves a legacy of £100 each. To his servants he leaves very liberal legacies. He appoints his nephew, the said Rev. Robert Vernon Carter Kindleside, residuary legatee.The will of Miss Martha Mary Halliday Davies, formerly of Withington, Gloucestershire, afterwards of Surrey-street, Strand, and late of 7, Brompton-square, where she died, on Aug. 29 last, aged eighty-two, was proved in London, on the 17th ult., under £70,000 personalty, by William Alexander Anderson, Esq., M.D., J.P., of Wilton Lodge, Hillingdon, and John Baker, Esq., M.D., the joint acting executors. The will bears date Jan. 6, 1871. The testatrix has left to the Gloucester County Infirmary and the Gloucester Lunatic Asylum each a legacy of £10,000 in. the Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities; to Dr. Anderson, £500. She has bequeathed her jewels, rings, trinkets, personal ornaments, lace, and furs to Gertrude Millicent Temple, the daughter of the Rev. William Henry Temple, of Boumo Bank; and to the last-named she has devised her real estates at Overton, Cranham, dnd elsewhere, appointing him also residuary legatee of her personal estate.The will of W elliam Joseph Myers, Esq., merchant, of Lezayre House, Sea-forth, dated Oct. 28, 1870, who died on August 24 last, was proved at Liverpool, under £7,000 personalty, and contains bequests to the following charitable institutions, namely;—The Liverpool Northern Hospital, Bluecoat Hospital, School for Indigent Bliad, and Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest (all of Liverpool), £50 each; the Bible Society, Society for Promoting Christianity amongst the J ews, £60 each; the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to AnmalB, and the Eirkdale Ragged School, each £25; bequeathing the residue of his property amongst the Liverpool Bluecoat Hospital, Liverpool Royal Infirmary, Church Missionary Society, and Church Pastoral Aid Society.Sib Roderick Murchison’s Well.—Sir Roderick Murchison has appointed Professor Archibald GfeBrie, of Edinburgh, his literary executor, and has left him a legacy of £1,000. The professor will, it is understood, write Sir Roderick’s life. He will have a superabundance of materials, for he has left a large number of boxes (sufficient to occupy a good-sized table) full of papers. Sir Roderick has also bequeathed to each of the professors in Jermyn-street £100. To the institution he has left the snuff-box and the magnificent Siberian avanturine vase, mounted on a porphyry pedestal, presented to him by the late Emperor of Russia. He has also left to the same institution his valuable gold and platinum plate. It is not yet known who will succeed Sir Roderick.The will of Joseph Somes, Esq., late of Bumtwood Lodge, Wandsworth-common, Surrey, dated March 14, 1870, was proved, in the principal registry, on the 27th ult.—personalty under £160,000. The deceased was the eldest nephew of die late Mr. Joseph Somes, the eminent shipowner, to whose business he succeeded, and, in conjunction with his brothers, carried on the same until the year 1859, when he retired, and entered Parliament, representing Hull for six years in the Conservative interest. He was a Deputy-Lieutenant for the City of London, and a magistrate for the counties of Middlesex and Essex. After bequeathing the lease of his residence and furniture to his wife, he devises and bequeaths the residue of his real and personal estate to his brother George Somes, and his brother-in-law Edward Saxton, upon trust, to convert the same into money, and, in the first place, to pay his wife an annuity of £2,000 per annum until his affairs are settled, and to pay h6r also a legacy of £80,000 ; he then gives legacies of £1,000 to each of his executors and to several god-children, and a legacy of £500 to servants; one moiety of the residue to his wife, and out of the remaining moiety legacies of £20,000 to each of his sisters, Mrs. Layard and Mrs. Saxton • and the remainder to all his brothers and sisters equally.The will of Rear-Admiral Thomas George Forbes, R.N., was proved at Exeter, under £14,000 personalty; that of Captain Frank Cutler, R.N., late of Upton Lodge, Brixham, Devon, under £60,000 (London); that of Robert Blair, of Harrington, Cumberland, ironmaster, was proved in Carlisle, under £45,000 ; that of Edward Hughes Chamberlain, Esq. (London), £40,000; that of William Polling, wood, Esq. (London), £25,000. ~ w
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