An Eccentric Will.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 2 April 1910, Page 4

An Eccentric Will.

Few more curious conditions have ever been attached to wills than that of Alderman Benjamin Minr.os Weolan, of Sherwood Park, Tunbridge Wells, and formerly of South Africa, and a director of several companies, and a former Mayor of Tunbridge Wells, who died December 5, aged fifty-two years. The estate is valued at £223,0(52 17s 8d gross, of which the net personality has been sworn at £196, 471 0s lid.

.By his will lie left lu's residuary estate, amounting to nearly £200,000, on the extinction of certain life interests to his son Ernest absolutely, hut by a codicil made a fortnight before his death he revoked that provision, stating that his son had married recently, and lie, therefore, left his residuary estate upon trust for his _ said son for life, with the exception mentioned below, and on his decease the income -from one-twentieth thereof to the wife of his said son during her widowhood, and the income from one-twentioth-tenth thereof to any daughters he might leave for life, and the ultimate residue would then follow the trusts defined in-.his will; therefore, in the event of his son dying, the condition was: That if his said son should have a male child who should during his said son's lifetime attain the age of three years, and such child should then be cwtifted by two physicians of good standing as of reasonably sound mind and body, this trust was to be revoked, and the whole of the testator's residuary estate was to pass to his said son (the father of this child absolutely^ He left £500 to Dr Barnardo's Homos conditional upon that institution raising a special fund of £500 to claim the legacy;,an annuity of £100 to his secretary, Herbert Viiiall; annuities of £o"0 eadh to his gamekeeper, Mm. Thomson, and his coachman, F. Watkins, and such legacies to servants as his wife may approve or determine, not exceeding £50 to any one servant.