Marriage settlement

ABE/25F

Marriage settlement

11 May 1787

George Henry Nevill (1760-1844), youngest son of George [Nevill], Earl of Abergavenny, deceased; Richard Walpole of Dover Street in St George, Hanover Square, Middlesex and his youngest daughter Caroline Walpole of the same; trustees (Horatio [Walpole], Baron Walpole, Gerard William Vanneck of Heveningham Hall, Suffolk, bt, Thomas [Pelham] Baron Pelham and his eldest son Thomas Pelham)

Recites: intended marriage between GHN and CW; will of GN bequeathing his personal estate to his brother William Nevill and William Morgan of the Hill, Monmouthshire, esq in trust to pay an annuity of £200 to Mary Banister, spinster, now wife of William Yarnold of Knightsbridge, Middlesex, brewer, the residue to be held to the use of GHN, 14 Aug 1779; settlement by which William Nevill and William Morgan secured the annuity by agreement to hold £5,000 secured to GHN by mortgage from [Henry Pelham-Clinton] Duke of Newcastle, of Nottingham Castle and lands, assigned to them by GHN 5 and 6 Apr 1786 (details given), 15 Oct 1785

GHN has agreed that the £5,000 shall be assigned to the trusts of this settlement, with £7,000 and £5,000 stock (part of which is the portion intended to be given by RW to CW, the rest belonging to GHN), which have been transferred into the names of the trustees

Trustees shall hold the sums in trust for GHN for life, then to CW for life, remainder to the child or children of the marriage.

Details of trust and provisoes given.

W: John Edison, John Edison the younger, both of Basinghall Street (London)

Endorsements: (1) Appointment of new trustees; 1 Oct 1812

George Henry Nevill and wife Caroline, late Caroline Walpole, spinster; Thomas [Pelham], Earl of Chichester (formerly TP above); TP, Henry [Nevill], Earl of Abergavenny, Horatio [Walpole], Lord Walpole (eldest son of Horatio [Walpole], Earl of Orford), and Robert Walpole of Savile Row, Middlesex, esq

Recites deaths of Horatio [Walpole], Lord Walpole, Gerard William Vanneck and Thomas [Pelham], Lord Pelham; now TP appoints HN, HW and RW as additional trustees

W: Charles Holland, Craven Streat, solicitor; William Tyler, Mount Street, Berkeley Square; Richard Jones and Walter Sprott, both of Tunbridge Wells; George Holland; Joseph Cockerton, 2 Austin Friars

(2) Declaration of trust by the trustees in endorsement (1) above; 30 Apr 1819

Recites will of Richard Walpole of the City of London, devising property (details) at Croydon, Surrey, and in Middlesex to HW, Joshua [Vanneck], Lord Huntingfield and Samuel Long (executors together with Beeston Long) in trust for sale (subject to life interests of his wife Margaret Walpole and servant John Commins in the Middlesex property), the proceeds to be added to his personal estate and divided among his younger sons Robert and Edward and his daughter Caroline, 5 Jul 1797; codicil instructing executor to assign her share to the trustees of the settlement on her marriage to George Henry Nevill, 8 Mar 1798; death of RW 18 Aug 1798; probate 17 Sep 1798; death of Margaret Walpole May 1818. HW and Beeston Long are the surviving executors of the will, and TP is the surviving trustee of the settlement; appointment of new trustees, 1 Oct 1812; sale of Croydon property; sale of Dover Street property to Peter [King], Lord King for £5,097 10s 9d, 9 Feb 1819; £4520 6s 1d is left to be divided among Richard Walpole's younger children, of which a third (£1506 15s 5d) has been paid to the trustees of the settlement who have bought stock; the whole residue of the personal estate of Richard Walpole has now been collected (except for the product of the sale of St John's Square property, not yet sold), and a third part has been transferred to the trustees, who have bought £23,096 13s 11d 3% Bank Annuities.

Trustees declare they will hold the sums on the trusts expressed of the settlement.

W: Charles Holland, Craven Street, solicitor; William Tyler, Mount Street, Berkeley Square; Stephen Miles, 17 Stratton Street, Piccadilly; George Holland; Joseph Cockerton, Austin Friars

(3) Declaration of trust by trustees in endorsement (2).

Recites death of John Commins, Nov 1816; sale of tenement in St John's Square to Andrew Maclew (?), esq for £1,560, 17 Dec 1816; paayment of a third (£460 7s 9d) to the trustees as the share owing to the Countess of Abergavenny, formerly Caroline Walpole; purchase of stock by trustees

Trustees declare they will hold the sum on the trusts of the settlement

W: Charles Holland, solicitor, Craven Street; Joseph Cockerton, Austin Friars; Robert Foreman, George Langridge, clerks to Mr Sprott, Tunbridge Wells

(4) Appointment of trust funds; 4 Jun 1825

George Henry Nevill and his wife Caroline; trustees in endorsement (2); GHN's eldest son George Henry Nevill of West Chiltington, clerk; GHN's second son Henry Nevill

Appointment of proceeds of stock to GHN the younger and HN

W: Daniel Rowland, Frant; W Sprott, Tunbridge Wells

(5) Further appointment of trust funds; 29 Sep 1830

George Henry Nevill and wife Caroline; Henry [Nevill], Earl of Abergavenny, Horatio [Walpole], Lord Walpole and Robert Walpole; Henry Nevill; Reginald Nevill

Further appointment of proceeds of stock to HN with release by RN

W: Thomas Vass of Godstone, Surrey; George Leigh of Godstone

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