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CHARLES JOHNSON HILL

London


WILLS AND BEQUESTS

The will (dated August 11 1893) of Mr Charles Johnson Hill of 510, Oxford-street, jewel merchant and silversmith, and of 66, Holland Park, Kensington, who died on August 6, was proved on October 21 by Mrs Anne Hill, the widow, Miss Annie Cassandra Hill, the daughter, John Hill, and Walter Morison, the executors, the value of the personal estate amounting to £516,369.

Source: The Yorkshire Herald - 9th November 1895

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FRANK ALFRED COCKS

Glamorgan


Mr Frank Alfred Cocks, of Cornerways, Ogmore by Sea, Glamorgan, retired jeweller, who died last September, left £37,586 gross (£36,771 net). Probate has been granted to his son, Denis Pells-Cocks, of Cornerways.

Source: British Jeweller and Watch Buyer - March 1979

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JOSEPH GAMBLE

Sheffield


LATEST WILLS

ALDERMAN JOSEPH GAMBLE, of Southbourne, Clarkhouse Road, Sheffield, merchant and manufacturer, of Messrs. Moss and Gamble Bros., steel manufacturers, Sheffield, chairman of Davy Bros. Ltd., director of Ibbotson Bros. & Co., Ltd., chairman of John Round and Son, Ltd., and the Pelham Rolling Mills Company, Ltd. £89, 574.

Source: Page's Weekly - 16th March 1906

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WILLIAM CHARLES MANSELL

London


Mr. William Charles Mansell, of 66, Lynton Avenue, Ealing, W., and 24, Connaught Street, W.2, jeweller and silversmith, who died on April 30 last, intestate, aged 71 years, left £2,970 gross, with net personalty £1,335. Letters of administration have been granted to his widow Mrs. Emily Mansell, of 66, Lynton Avenue, Ealing, and Mrs. Marjorie R. Williamson, of 20, Islip Gardens, Northolt, Middlesex.

Source: The Jeweller& Watchmaker - 1st November 1945

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H.W. OLIVER

Birmingham


Under his will the late Mr. H. W. Oliver, a jeweller and pawnbroker, who died worth 67,361l., directs that a sum of 10,000l. shall be divided equally among the following fifteen institutions in Birmingham: — The General, Queen's, Women's, Children's, Eye, Skin and Lock, Orthopaedic, Homoeopathic, Ear and Throat, and the Dental Hospitals, the General Dispensary, the Institution for the Blind, the Deaf and Dumb Institution, the Magdalen Home, and the Asylum for Idiots. As certain life interests fall in, these institutions will share equally a further sum of 16,000l.

Source: The Chemist and Druggist - 11th August 1900

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WILLIAM HENRY SIDLEY

Birmingham


LATEST WILLS PROVED
(FROM THE HERALD’S CORRESPONDENT.)

London, Saturday.—Probate has been granted of the following wills: —

Mr. WILLIAM HENRY SIDLEY, of Augusta street, Birmingham, Jeweller’s factor £16,797.

Source: The New York Herald - 27th May 1917

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ABRAM BROOKSBANK

Sheffield


Bequests. — The following medical charities have benefited under the provisions of the will of Mr. Abram Brooksbank, J.P., late of Southborne. Sheffield: — To the Sheffield General Infirmary he bequeaths £100; to the Public Hospital and Dispensary, £50 ; to the Jessop Hospital for Women, £50 ; to the Sheffield Children’s Hospital, £50.

Source: The British Medical Journal - 1st November 1890

Abram Brooksbank of Abram Brooksbank and Co., Malinda Works, Sheffield, died on the 21st April 1890.

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MATTHEW WILLIAM LISTER (Lister & Wright Ltd.)

Birmingham


Captain Matthew William Lister, of Handsworth, Birmingham, of the South Staffordshire Regiment, was a director of Lister & Wright, Ltd., manufacturing jewellers, of 61, Caroline Street, Birmingham, who was killed in action on the 19th July last, leaving estate valued at £5,378 12s. 9d., with net personalty £2,506 11s. 2d. Colonel William Studdy Hooper and Major Cecil Lister, his brother, are the executors.

Source: The Jeweller and Metalworker - 1st November 1917

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HENRY SAMUEL HARRIS

London


Mr. Henry Samuel Harris, of 119, Houndsditch, E.C., jeweller, who died August 30 last, aged 72 years, left estate of the gross value of £41,679, of which the net personalty has been sworn at £31,371.

Source: The Jeweller and Metalworker - 15th November 1914

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JOHN VINCENT

Weymouth


Mr. John Vincent, J.P., of Faircross, Weymouth, and of Melcombe Regis, Dorset, jeweller and silversmith, left £100 to the rector and churchwardens of Wyke Regis Parish Church, £50 to the Royal Hospital, Weymouth, and bequests to employees and servants; the net personalty was £21,728.

Source: The Jeweller and Metalworker - 1st December 1914

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THOMAS COOKE

Newcastle-upon-Tyne


Mr. Thomas Cooke, of Croft House, Newcastle-on-Tyne, jeweller and banker, for many years a member of the city council, left estate of the gross value of £160,901.

Source: The Jeweller and Metalworker - 1st February 1915

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HENRY JONES

London


Henry Jones, diamond merchant and gold and silver refiner of Long Acre, W.C., who died recently, has left a fortune of nearly $2,000,000. He has made bequests to members of his clerical staff, his commissionaire, gamekeepers and chauffeur. Mr. Jones was a well known figure in the trade.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 6th April 1927

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