Birth10 Dec 1848, Montagu Sq, Marylebone, London
Death7 Jan 1932
General1st s. 2nd earl.
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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