The Last Will & Testament of Sir Charles Reginald Cranbury

Arriman & Deckans
Solicitors
121 Midguard Terrace, Bath

LAST WILL OF SIR CHARLES REGINALD CRANBURY

I, Sir Charles Reginald Cranbury [name of testator], a resident of Yorkshire, England, being of sound and disposing mind and memory and above the age of twenty four (24) years, and not being actuated by any duress, menace, fraud, mistake, or undue influence, do make, publish, and declare this to be my last Will, hereby expressly revoking all Wills and Codicils previously made by my person, and that bequests detailed below be carried out in accordance with my wishes this day, the 15th March 1922.

I. EXECUTOR:

I appoint solicitors Arriman and Deckans as sole Executor of this my Last Will and Testament. My Executor shall be authorized to carry out all provisions of this Will and pay my just debts, obligations and funeral expenses. I further provide my Executor shall not be required to post surety bond in this or any other jurisdiction, and direct that no expert appraisal be made of my estate unless required by law.

II. MARITAL STATUS:

I declare that I am unmarried and have never been married.

III. SIMULTANEOUS DEATH OF BENEFICIARY:

If any beneficiary of this Will, including any beneficiary of any trust established by this Will, shall die within 60 days of my death or prior to the distribution of my estate, I hereby declare that I shall be deemed to have survived such person. Articles in the dividend of my estate should therefore fall to surviving beneficiaries equally.

IV. BEQUESTS:

My long standing chauffer and housekeeper, Mr. James Campbell Morley and Mrs. Agnes Augustine Morley, are hereby granted ownership of Yorkshire Lodge, Pendennis and the surrounding pastures and outbuildings; not withstanding the gardens of Pendennis which are to opened for the enjoyment of the public and maintained through a trust fund into which one thousand (1000) pounds is to be placed.

Prior to the opening of the gardens of Yorkshire Lodge, Pendennis to the public the following directions are to be adhered to. In the hours before the opening the following people should be given the enclosed envelopes (items i - xxvi) detailed and signed by my own hand. Details of these persons known places of residence and frequentation are included in appendix xxvii.

i. Major Thomas Petrie
ii. Miss. Madeline Behrens
iii. Miss Amy Fawcett
iv. Mrs. Millicent Wilmslow
v. Mr. Hendrick Vorster
vi. Lady Evelyn Herbert
vii. Dr. Henry Lawrence MD
viii. Miss. Flora Darling
ix. Miss. Rose Mowbury
x. Miss. Celia Blume
xi. Mr. Richard Baxter
xii. Mr. Jeremy St. John Hawkes
xiii. Mr. Morton Braddock
xiv. Sir Charles Leonard Wooley
xv. Mr. Jack Flynn
xvi. Professor Edward Jacobs
xvii. Dr. Gladys Tolland-Pimms
xviii. Lord Arthur Christian
xix. Captain Edmund Leighton
xx. Mr. Waylon Riley
xxi. Mrs. Nancy Rider
xxii. Lady Violet Charteris
xxiii. Miss. Sarah Hunter-Fitzsimmons
xxiv. Mr. Edward Braithwaite
xxv. Mr. Chester Slim
xxvi. Lieutenant Douglas Flyte

Upon a single hour following the opening of the Yorkshire Lodge, Pendennis, gardens to the public the gathered party may be allowed to wander the grounds for a period of four hours. In this time I would expect them to consider items ii, v, viii & x and to be advised of the following.

Upon my will I hereby grant a fund of thirty thousand (30,000) pounds, to be held in trust by solicitors Arriman and Deckans, to enable those assembled to continue in my research should they wish to. This being on the proviso that they have undertaken and completed, without raising public suspicion of their activities, tasks leading to a goal I have set. I also grant full use of my remaining properties.

It is my belief, that persons capable of the subtlety and logic involved in this task will be capable of furthering my work better than I. In the furthering of my research it is also my will that persons deemed suitable, by the majority of the above people still wishing to further my investigations pending items detailed above, be supported by the aforementioned trust fund in their endeavours toward an eventual conclusion. I leave work to be continued without the burden of preconception.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I, Sir Charles Reginald Cranbury [name of testator], hereby set my hand to this last Will, on each page of which I have placed my initials, on this 15th day of March, 1922.

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Sir Charles Reginald Cranbury

The foregoing instrument [consisting of 3 pages, including this page] was signed in our presence by Sir Charles Reginald Cranbury [name of testator] and declared by him to be his last Will. We, at the request and in the presence of him and in the presence of each other, have subscribed our names below as witnesses on this 15th day of March 1922.

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Miss. Sarah Eugenie Walcott [name of Witness #1]

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Mr. Fei Leung Tse [name of Witness #2]

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Professor William J. Kirkland [name of Witness #3]

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