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Will of Thomas Selby-Lowndes esquire, 1884 (proved 1885)
Oxford Probate Registry
ON the Twenty eighth day of January 1885, the Will of Thomas William Selby Lowndes late of Winslow in the County of Buckingham, Esquire, deceased, who died on the Twenty seventh day of October 1884 at Winslow aforesaid, was proved in Her Majesty’s Court of Justice in the District Registry attached to the Probate Division thereof at Oxford by the Oaths of Edward Robert Baynes of Aylesbury in the County of Buckingham, Solicitor, and Thomas Price Willis of Winslow aforesaid, Solicitor, the Executors named (in the said Will) they having been first sworn duly to administer.
It is hereby certified the above is a correct Copy. Dated this Fifth day of February 1885.
Personal Estate Gross £8,489 : 1 : 11.
Personal Estate Net £8,336 : 1 : 0.
No Leaseholds.
Extracted by Willis and Willis, Solicitors, Winslow.
This is the last Will and Testament of me Thomas William Selby Lowndes of Winslow in the County of Bucks, Esquire. I appoint my friends Edward Robert Baynes of Aylesbury of the said County of Bucks, Solicitor, and Thomas Price Willis of Winslow aforesaid, Solicitor, to be Executors and Trustees of my Will and I bequeath unto them the Legacy or sum of Fifty pounds each as a small acknowledgement for the care and trouble they will have in the execution of the duties of that office. I bequeath to my Goddaughter (daughter of my Brother Richard William Selby Lowndes) the Legacy or sum of One hundred pounds sterling free of Legacy duty to be paid to her within twelve calendar months next after my death in case she shall survive me. I bequeath to my Nephew William Seymour Selby Lowndes (Son of my Brother Edward William Selby Lowndes) absolutely All my household goods and furniture plate china glass prints pictures jewels trinkets wines liquors and household effects. It is my Will that my personal linen and sheets shall be divided by my Executors among my female servants who may be living with me at the time of my decease. I bequeath to my Servant Richard Swallow if he shall be living with me at the time of my decease all my clothes and wearing apparel including my hunting clothes and boots but excepting my linen hereinbefore devised. I devise unto my Nephew and Godson Charles (Son of my Brother The Reverend Charles William Selby Lowndes) and to his heirs and assigns absolutely all the real estate to which I shall be beneficially entitled at the time of my decease. I bequeath the residue of the personal estate to which I shall be entitled at the time of my death to the said Edward Robert Baynes and Thomas Price Willis their executors administrators and assigns Upon trust to convert and get in my residuary personal estate and thereout to pay my just debts funeral and testamentary expenses and the legacies hereby bequeathed and to invest the residue thereof pursuant to the direction for investment hereinafter contained And upon further trust to pay my said Brother Richard William Selby Lowndes or his assigns during his life the dividends interest and annual produce of one equal third part or share of the net moneys so to be invested a aforesaid. To my said Brother Edward William Selby Lowndes ... [the legacy bequeathed above to Richard William Selby Lowndes is duplicated] and To the unmarried daughters of my said Brother Charles William Selby Lowndes by his first Wife so long as they shall remain single the dividends interest and annual produce of the remaining equal third part or share of the net moneys in equal shares or proportions And upon further trust upon the death of my said Brother Richard William Selby Lowndes to stand possessed of one equal third part or share of the capital of the said net moneys and of the stocks funds and securities whereon the same shall be invested and the future dividends interest and annual produce thereof In trust for the unmarried child if only one and for all the unmarried children in equal shares if more than one of my said Brother Richard William Selby Lowndes who shall be living at his decease And upon further trust upon the death of my said Brother Edward William Selby Lowndes ... [the legacy bequeathed to Richard William Selby Lowndes during his lifetime and for any of his children in his death is duplicated] And upon further trust upon the death or marriage of the last unmarried daughter of my said Brother Charles William Selby Lowndes by his first Wife to stand possessed of one equal third part or share of the capital of the said net moneys . . . In trust for the child if only one . . . of my said nephew and godson Charles (Son of my said Brother Charles William Selby Lowndes) as and when they shall severally and respectively attain the age of twenty one I declare that all moneys liable to be invested under this my Will may be invested in or upon any Stocks funds or securities of or guaranteed by the Government of the United Kingdom or of India or of any other British possession (including the stocks or securities of any Railway or other Company in India or elsewhere having a fixed rate of interest guaranteed thereon as aforesaid) or in stock of the Bank of England or the Bonds or Debentures or Debenture Stock or preference Stock or shares of any Railway or other Company in Great Britain incorporated by Act of Parliament or Royal Charter and paying a dividend on its ordinary stock or shares or upon real securities in England but not elsewhere And in lending money on any mortgage security my Trustees or Trustee may accept whatever title or evidence of title shall appear to them or him sufficient and my Trustees or Trustee may at any time release any part of the property comprised in any Mortgage Security upon being satisfied that the remaining property comprised therein is a sufficient security for the money owing thereon. I devise all the real estate if any which shall at my decease be vested in me as Trustee or Mortgagee to the said Edward Robert Baynes and Thomas Price Willis their heirs and assigns subject to the trusts and equities affecting the same respectively Lastly I revoke all other Wills. In Witness whereof I the said Thomas William Selby Lowndes the Testator have to each sheet of this my Will contained on three sheets of paper have set my hand this Fifteenth day of February One thousand eight hundred and eighty four.
T.W. Selby Lowndes [signature]
This sheet and the two sheets of paper hereto annexed were severally signed by the said Thomas William Selby Lowndes the Testator in the joint presence of us who at his request in his presence and the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as Witnesses.
Arthur S. Midgley [signature] Wm. N. Midgley [signature] Clerks to Messrs Willis & Willis, Solicitors, Winslow.
Proved at Oxford, the Twenty eighth day of January 1885, by the Oaths of Edward Robert Baynes and Thomas Price Willis, the Executors to whom Administration was granted.
The Testator Thomas William Selby Lowndes was late of Winslow in the County of Buckingham, Esquire, and died in the Twenty seventh day of October 1884 at Winslow aforesaid.
Personal Estate Gross £8,489 : 1 : 11.
Net £8,336 : 1 : 0.
Willis and Willis, Solicitors, Winslow, Bucks
It is hereby certified that the foregoing is a correct Copy. Dated this Fifth day of February 1885.
Notes
Thomas Selby-Lowndes (1810-84) was the second son of William Selby-Lowndes (1767-1840). He was born at Whaddon Hall; Winslow Hall went to his older brother William. He lived at The Bank from at least 1871 but doesn't appear to have owned it. He apparently returned to Winslow after his military career in order to spend his time hunting foxes. The first report below says that he was buried in the Lowndes vault but that is unlikely as the vault was filled in during the restoration of the church.
Bucks Herald, 8 Nov 1884
THE FUNERAL OF THE LATE CAPTAIN THOMAS SELBY LOWNDES.- On Saturday last the interment of the remains of the late Captain Lowndes took place in a vault adjoining the chancel of the parish church, Winslow. The service was conducted in a very impressive manner by the Rev. S. T. Adams, rector of Great Horwood. The funeral cortege left the residence of the deceased at 1.15 p.m., and comprised a large number of the relatives of the deceased, together with several gentlemen, his late friends, well known in the hunting field, some of the leading farmers in the district, and the servants late in the deceased’s employ. Among the following we noticed - Mr. Wm. Selby Lowndes, Mr. Richard Wm. Selby Lowndes, Mr. Edward Wm. Selby Lowndes, and the Rev. Charles Wm. Selby Lowndes, brothers of the deceased, Mr. William Selby Lowndes, the Rev. Octavius W. C. Selby Lowndes, Mr. R. W. Selby Lowndes, jun., Mr. W. Seymour Selby Lowndes, Rev. Owen W. Selby Lowndes, Mr. Meyrick Selby Lowndes, and Major Charles W. Selby Lowndes, nephews of the deceased, Captain Peach, Mr. A. Rushout, Lord Charles Russell, Hon. T. F. Fremantle, M.P., Major Levi, Col. Pratt, Captain Drake, Messrs. Owen (Oxford), Matthew Knapp, Joison, H. J. Chinnery, H. R. Lambton, G. R. Greaves, T. P. Willis, W. R. Rowland, Wigley, Monk, Neal, Morris, Baylis, Hathaway, Barton, G. King, Woodward, John Grace, and others; also several of the servants of the Whaddon Hunt. Letters of apology from old friends for unavoidable absence came from the Duke of Grafton, Lord Jersey, and many others. The deceased gentleman was for many years Captain of the 8th King’s Royal Irish Hussars. His long career was marked by a very high sense of honour, and he had won many friends. He was a fine representative of the good old sportsmen of his day, entering into all kinds of sport with great zest. Beautiful wreaths composed of costly flowers, sent by Lady Abercrombie, Mrs. Rushout, and many others, were placed in profusion on the coffin.
Leighton Buzzard Observer, 11 Nov 1884
CAPTAIN THOS. WILLIAM SELBY-LOWNDES, late 8th King’s Royal Irish Hussars, well-known for many years in connection with the Whaddon and Bicester Foxhounds and the Rothschild Staghounds, died on the 27th ult., in his 75th year, at the Bank, Winslow, where the funeral took place on Saturday, Nov. 1st., in the parish churchyard, amid evident tokens of respect and esteem for the family from both business and private residents of that town. The burial service was rendered by the Rev. S. T. Adams, rector of Great Horwood; and among the relatives present as mourners were- Mr. Wm Selby-Lowndes, Mr. R. W. Selby Lowndes, Mr. E. W. Selby Lowndes, Rev. C. W. Selby Lowndes (brothers of the deceased gentleman), Mr. Wm. Selby Lowndes, jun., Rev. Octavius W. C. Selby Lowndes, Mr. R. W. Selby Lowndes, jun., Mr. W. Seymour Selby Lowndes,, Rev. Owen W. Selby Lowndes, Mr. Meyrick Selby Lowndes, Major Charles W. Selby Lowndes, (nephews), Major Peach, and Mr. Algernon Rushout. Lord Charles Russell, the Hon. T. F. Fremantle, M.P., Major Levi, Captain Drake, Mr. Knapp, and other personal friends also attended the obsequies, as well as Mr. G. D. E. Wigley, Mr. J. Morris, Mr. H. Monk, and other agriculturalists of the neighbourhood, with several servants of the Whaddon Hunt. The Earl of Jersey, Viscount Valentia, and other friends of the late Captain, sent letters regretting inability to be present on the occasion.
Bucks Herald, 22 Nov 1884
WINSLOW.
VALUABLE BAY HUNTER, “Pilot,” 16 hands; BAY COB, 15 hands, quiet in Harness and Saddle; the whole of the HUNTING APPOINTMENTS, comprising 6 Riding Saddles, 9 Double and Single Rein Bridles, Headstalls, Breastplates, 6 Sets of Horse Clothing, Set of first-class Brass-mounted Harness, complete; Samuelson’s CHAFF CUTTER, and BEAN MILL, and numerous other Items. Stanhope PHAETON, in capital condition, complete (by King, Leighton); 5 Double-barrel, Breach and Muzzle-loading GUNS, 8 Leather and Oak Gun Cases, Cartridge Machine and Cases, and Ammunition Requisites; a quantity of FISHING TAKLE; the whole of the HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, consisting of the contents of Dining Rooms, and 6 Bed Rooms, KITCHEN UTENSILS, China, Glass, and Earthenware.
Mr. GEO. WIGLEY Is favoured with instructions from the Executors of the late Captain Thomas Selby Lowndes,
TO SELL BY AUCTION,On FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28th, 1884, as above.
The Sale will commence at the Hunting Stables, Sheep Street, at Eleven for Twelve o’Clock precisely.
Catalogues may be had at the Bell Hotel, Winslow; and will be forwarded on application to the Auctioneer, Winslow, and Town Hall Offices, Fenny Stratford.