KITCHENER'S ESTATE.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 August 1916, Page 6

KITCHENER'S ESTATE.

VALUED AT £171,004 BROOME PARK DESCENDS TO BROTHER'S SON. + ; London, July 4. The will of Lord Kitchener has been proved by the executors, Arthur Henry Renshaw, of Watlington Park, Oxford, and the Hon. Algernon Henry Mills, of 07, Lombard street, who is a son of the first Lord Hillingdon. The will is a printed document over 4300 words, and dated November 2, 1914. The unsettled estate amounts to £171,421 14s Sd. and the net personalty to £I4G,SSG 14s Sd. Broome Park is left by Lord Kitchener to his nephew, Commander Henry Franklin Chevalier Kitchener, R..V. (son of the testator's brother, the present peer, who is better known as Colonel Kitchener), with remainder to his son:in tail male, with remainder to Henry Hamilton Kitchener son of the testator's other brother, General Sir Frederick Walter Kitchener.

To the present peer Lord Kitchener left UOOn, with the comment, "I give him this legacy and nothing olse, because he is already well off, and because of the large benefits conferred by my will on his issue." 'The two sums of £30,000. and £"A----000 which were granted him by the nation in ISflO and 1002 respectively in recognition of his services in the Khartoum and South African campaigns are to be treated as though they were moneys arising from the sale of Broome Farl:. according to the provisions of the Settled Land Act. The swords of honor, plate, and other gifts presented by the public bodies, as well as the collection of china, which was his chief diversion, are to devolve with Broome Pari: as heirlooms. Lord Kitchener owned about 5000 acres in East Africa, and these, with all that appertains to them, he left free of legacy duty to Colonel Oswald Arthur Fitzgerald, his personal private secretary, who was drowned with, him in H.M.S. Hampshire. This bequest may give rise to considerable legal difficulty, in the absence of positive evidence lij which it might be proved whether or no the legatee survived the testator. A sum of .£2OO is left to each of the members of the personal staff: Ilajor J. K. Watson, C.V.0., C.M.G., ' D.S.O. Colonel 11. J. Marker, D.R.O. Colonel F. Maxwell, V.C., C.5.1., D.S.O ' General W. E. Birdwood, C.8., C.5.1., D.S.O. Colonel Oswald A. O. Fitzgerald. Captain (I. G. K. Wylly. General Birdwood is the now famous Commander of the Australian Forces in the Dardanelles Expedition. The bequests to the members of his family are: £20.000 to his nephew. Henry Hamilton Kitchener. [,£5000 in trust for his half-sister, Letitia Henrietta Emma Karvara Kitchener, for life, and then in equal shares for her children, and on failure of issue to the person who shall then be Earl Kitchener. A sum of £2OOO is also left to his godson, Horatio Herbert Eensliaw, the son of Mr. A. 11. Renshaw, the son of the executors. The ultimate residue is to go with the Eroome Park Estate.