SIR ROBERT STOUT’S WILL

Hokitika Guardian, 3 September 1930, Page 3

SIR ROBERT STOUT’S WILL

SHETLAND ISLES REMEMBERED

’WELLINGTON, Sept, i

Probate of the will of tlie late Sir Robert Stout, formerly Chief Justice of New Zealand, lias been granted by his Honour Mr Justice Reed the estate being sworn at a value of under £20,000. The trustees and executors are Sir Robert's sons, Mr John Logan Stout S.iVl,, of Palmerston North, Dr. Robert Stout and Dr Tlhomas Duncan Macgregor Stout, of Wellington. The will gives £250 to the Gilbert Bain Hospital in Lerwick, Shetlaud Isles, and £IOO to the Lerwick primary school. The latter devise directs that the money be invested by the schoolmaster and the yearly income expended as a prize to the best pupil in work and character of the year. The residue of the estate is to be divided among the testator’s children, John Logan Stout, Robert Stout, Thomas Duncan Macgregor Stout, Olaf Stout and Janet.Qsla Holmden.

To his children also Sir Robert left in equal shares all his printed and published writings of his own authorship and all his pictures.. The remainder of his books are to be divided by the trustees in such -manner as they consider suitable between Victoria University College and any primary or secondary schools in New Zealand. To tliOr Shetland Society of- Wellington Sir Robert bequeathed all bis books, maps and literature dealing with Norway and the Orkney and Shetland Islands and with Scandinavian lor*.

Sir Robert was a native of Lerwick county town of the Shetland Islands. His. father was a merchant and landed proprietor who sent his son Robert to the best school in the island, one which ranked high among the academies of Northern Scotland.