LORD HALSBURY'S WILL.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17419, 1 April 1922, Page 6

LORD HALSBURY'S WILL.

The lit. Hon. Hardinge Stanley Giffard, Earl of Halsbury, for seventeen years Lord Chancellor of England, and before that for five years SolicitorGeneral, left unsettled property of the gross value of £25,009, with net personalty £24,058. He left three wills, each made in his own hand on a sheet, or half-sheet, of notepaper, and dated respectively December 9tn, 1906, March 11th, 1912, and September loth, 1913, all of which axe filed, but probate has been granted in respect of the last (which* recapitulates the previous ones) to his widow, Wilhelmma Countess of Halsbury. He directed that the Great Seals given to him by Queen Victoria and King Edward VH. and the Giffard Ring should devolve as heirlooms with the title of Earl of Halsbury- and he left all his other property to his wife, stating that the. absence of reference to his children was no reflection upon them, but because he had already made such provision for them during his lifetime as his means would permit. Like many other great lawyers, Lord Halsbury made his own will, and did not do it satisfactorily. Affidavits from the witnesses were required as to its execution and condition before it could be admitted to probate.