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The Will of
Audrey Josephine Glass

of Hammersmith, London
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I   Audrey Josephine Glass
otherwise known as Jane Glass of 43 Black Lion Lane, Hammersmith in the County of London the wife of Alfred Douglas George Glass,

Hereby revoke all former Wills and Testamentary Dispositions made by me and I Declare that this is my last Will.

1.  I Appoint my Husband and Philip Robert Kimber of 3 Temple Gardens, Middle Temple Lane in the City of London Solicitor to be the Executors and Trustees of this my WILL.

2.   I Desire that my body shall be buried and NOT cremated.

3.   IF My husband shall survive me for a space of Twenty eight days then but not otherwise
       I GIve and Bequeath all my real and personal property whatsoever and wheresoever to him absolutly.

4.   If My husband shall not survive me for a space of Twenty eight days then
      I Direct that the following clauses of this my WILL shall take effect.

5.   I APPOINT Barclays Bank Limited (hereinafter called "the Bank" to be Executor and Trustees of this my WILL in place of my said husband to act jointrly with the said Philip Robert Kimber and the Bank shall have power to act by its proper officer or officers and also to act as bankers to my Estate for all purposes upon the terms usual between bank and customer and the Bank shall also be entitled to renumeration for its services as such Executor and Trustee by fees and otherwise in accordance with the terms of renumeration charged by it at the date of my death for its services in acting as Executor and/or Trustee of a wilL free from duties and deductions and to be paid or retined out of ant part of the capital ot income of my Estate in priority to all other payments also to any customary share or brokerage recievable by a bank. THE BANK may in its absolute discretion determine how any fees and other renumeration payable to the Bank be born as between different parts of my Estate and as between persons benificially interesed in capital andincome respectively of any part of my Estate and every such determination shall be bindind on all persons benificially interested hereunder so long as the Bank shall be a Trustee hereof.

6.   I APOINT my sister Frances Eileen Crompton of Cottom Farm, Kitali, Kenya Colony to be gardian of my infant child or children.

7.   I DEVISE AND BEQUEATH unto my Trustrees all my real and personla Estatev whatesoever and wheresoever uopn trust that my trustees shall either retain the same in their existing state of investment or sell, call in and convert the same into money with power to pospone the sale calling in and conversion thereof so long as they shall in their absolute discretion think fit without being liable for loss.

8.   MY TRUSTEES shall hold my said Estate and the net proceeds of the said sale and conversion and my ready monies in Trust,
    (a) to pay thereout all my just debts funeral and testimentry expences
    (b) to hold the residue upon trust for such of my children or child as shall survive me and attain the age of Twenty One years and if more than one in share of equall value Provided that if any child of mine shall predecease me or survive me and die under the age of Twenty One years leaving issue, such issue when they attain he age of Twenty one years shall take by substitution and if more than one in equal shares according to their parenthood the share of my Estate which which such deceased child of mine would have taken if he or she had suvived me. Provided fiurther that if no child or grandchid of mine shall become entitled to a vested interest under the trust hereof then my Trustees shall hold upon Trust for John Vickers of 29a Belgrave Road, London S.W.1 absolutley.

9.   I DECLARE that my Trustees may at any time or times in thier absolute discretion raise any sum or sums ot of the presumptive or vested share of any child or grandchild of mine under the trusts hereinbefore declared and may pay or apply the same for or towards the maintenance advancement or benifit of such child or grandchild as my Trestees shall think proper and reciept of the gardian for any such advance or payment shall be a good discharge for my Trustees.

10.   I DECLARE that all my money liasble to be or requiring to be invested under this my WILL may be invested in such Stokes Funds Shares Securities real or leasehold prperty or other investments as my Trustees shall in their absolute dicretion think fit to the intentthat my Trustees shall have the same full unrestricted power of investing or transfering investments in all respects as if they were absolutley entitled therto benificially.

11.   THE said Philip Robrt Kimber or any trustee being a solicitor or otjher persons engaged in any proffession or businee may also imployed or act shall be entitled to charge and be paid all professional or other charges for any businees oracts done by him or his firm in connection with the Trusts hereof including acts which the trustees could have done personally. This Clause shall be effective whether my husband shall suvive me for Twenty Eight Days or Not.

In Witness Whereof
I have hereunto set my hand this 18th day of March One Thousand Nine Hundred and Fifty Three.

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Signed by the above named Audrey Josephine Glass as her WILL in the joint presence of us present at the same timewho at her request in her presence and in the presence of each other hare hereunto subscribed or names as Witnesees.

Mark colin Mave Universirty Colledge, Londonderry, N.I.
C.E. DeSalis Forieng Office , Whitehall Sw1,Goverment official

On the twenty second day of July 1910 Probate of this Will was Granted at York to
P R Kinmber and
Douglas Glass widower
the Executors

This is a true copy.


In The High Court of Justice
The priciple probate Registry

Be it known that
Audrey Josephine Glass
of Stone House, Stone Cum Ebony, near Tenterden Kent
formerly of 43 Black Lion Lane Hammersmith London

Died on the twenty fourth day of April 1963
at Stone House aforesaid.
Domicile England

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AND BE IT FURTHER KNOWN that at the date hereunder written the last Will and Testament of the deceased was proved and registered in the Priciplr Probate Registry of the High Court of Justice
And that administration of all the estate which by law devolves to the vests in the personal representatives of the deceased was granted by the aforesaid Court to deceased was granted by the aforesaid Court to:-

Alfred Douglas George Glass
of Stone House aforesaid, Photographer, husband of the said deceased, and
Philip Robert Kimber of 3 Temple Gardens London EC4, Solictor
the Executors named in the said Will

And it is hewreby certified that an Inland Revenue afffidavit has been delivered wherein it is shown that hte Gross value of the said Estate in Great Britain (exclusive of what thw said deceased may have been possesed or or entitled to as a Trustee and not benificially) amounts to
£10,393 - 15 - 5
And the net value of hte Estate amounts to
£10,378 -   0 - 5
And it is further certified at it appears by a reciept signed by the Inland Revenue Officer on he said affivdavit that
£  1,391 -   6 - 0 on account of Estate Duty and Interest on such Duty has beeen Paid.

Dated the 27th day of June 1963


Extracted by P.R.Kimber, 3 Temple Gardens, London EC4


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