JENNY LIND'S WILL

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1826, 27 April 1888, Page 3

JENNY LIND'S WILL

Probate has been granted of the will, dated the 15th o! May, 1886, with a oottcii made on the 29th of August, 1887, of Mdme. Jenny Marie Lind-Goldechmidt who died on the 2nd of November laßt, aged sixty-seven yerrs, at Col well; Herefordshire. She bequeaths to the K*ng of Sweden her painting, " The laundation ;" to Mrs Victor Benecke, the portrait of Mendelssohn ; to her gmndton, Victor Francia Maude, the cabinet of books given to her by the fire cooipaniea of New York j and' to the lioyal Museum at Stockholm the gold, silver, and bronze medals ttructr m her honor, and the gold medal and diamond crown preaenied to her by King Oscar II , to be worn with the liband of Zaraphine. She devises the freehold estate of Wynd's Point to her husband) Otto Goldtchmidt, bequeaths among other legacies 40,000 Swedish kroner to the University of Upsala, to be called the "ErioGaetof Gezler Stipend/ for the maintenance of poor students at the University ; and 50,000 kroner to the University of Lund, io be called the " Bißhop leaias Tegner Stipend," for the maintenance of poor students intending to enter the Protestant Church. Subject to the life interest of her husband the testatrix appoints the " common fund " settled on her marriage, as to one third i each m trust for her sons, Walter Otto and Ernest Svend David Goldecbmidr, and her daughter, Jenny Maria Eatberine, the wife of Raymond William de Latham Maude, and she recites that she had previously settled on each £5000 from her moiety of a "so-called joint fund," derived from joint earning of her husband and herself, which although his by law, were at his desire settled as to one moiety, or not less than £15,000, to her appointment. The executors are the said Otto Goldschmidt, Edward Wingfield and Richard Dv Cane, and the value of the personality is declared at £40,630 13s Bd.