Powys-Lybbe Forbears - Person Sheet
Powys-Lybbe Forbears - Person Sheet
Birth10 Dec 1848, Montagu Sq, Marylebone, London
Death7 Jan 1932
General1st s. 2nd earl.
MotherFlorence FitzGibbon (1825-1895)
Will notes for John Wodehouse Earl of Kimberley
His probate indices (don’t ask me what was going on here!):

The Second Earl of KIMBERLEY the right honourable John of Kimberley House Wymondham Norfolk died 7 Janaury 1932 at 40 St Georges-road Belgrave-road Westminster Middlesedx  Probate (limited to settled land) London 23 Auguest to sir Edward Hussey Packe C.B.E. and Charles Frederick Booth solicitor.
Effects £141785 11s. 8d.  Former Grant P.R. 21 July 1902.

The Second Earl of KIMBERLEY the right honourable John of Kimberley House
Wymondham Norfolk died 7 Janaury 1932 at 40 St Georges-road Belgrave-road Westminster Middlesedx  Probate (limited to settled land) London 23 Auguest to Charles Frederick Boooth and Reginald Hubert Langley solicitors.
Effects £12392 6s. 8d.  Former Grant P.R. 21 July 1902.

I wonder if the second will might have been for his copyright estate?
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The wills I have been supplied with are hilarious.  Most of them are given to fine strictures tying up legacies for a thousand years and then the second in a page so so reverses all of the fine strictures and gives the main legacies absolutely to his son and heir.
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