DEATHS
WALLACE. – Violet aged 75 peacefully on Monday 14th at Glymm Vivian Home for the Blind, Mumbles, South Wales. Dearly loved and sadly missed by all her relatives and friends. Funeral service at Torquay Crematorium, Wednesday, May 23rd at 3 pm.
(Torbay Express & South Devon Echo, 18th May 1984)
In the High Court of Justice
The District Probate Registry at Exeter
BE IT KNOWN that George Wallace otherwise George Carlton Wallace of 20 Belmont Road Torquay Devon formerly of 78 Mercers Road London N.19 died on the 4th day of July 1958 at 20 Belmont Road aforesaid
AND BE IT FURTHER KNOWN that at the date hereunder written the last Will and Testament (a copy whereof is hereunto annexed) of the said deceased was proved and registered in the District Probate Registry of the High Court of Justice at Exeter and that Administration of all the estate which by law devolves to and vests in the personal representative of the said deceased was granted by the aforesaid Court to Evelyn Gwynfa Wallace of 20 Belmont Road aforesaid widow the relict of the deceased the sole Executrix named in the said Will
And it is hereby certified that an Inland Revenue affidavit has been delivered wherein it is shewn that the gross value of the said estate in Great Britain (exclusive of what the said deceased may have been possessed of or entitled to as a trustee and not beneficially) amounts to £361. 11. 5. and that the net value of the estate amounts to £316. 11. 5.
Dated the 31st day of July 1958
This is the last Will and Testament of me George Wallace (known as George Carlton Wallace) Author and Theatrical Manager of 78 Mercers Road, London N.19 made this Twenty-first day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and Fifty two.
I HEREBY revoke all Wills made by me at any time heretofore. I appoint my wife Evelyn Gwynfa Wallace to be my Executrix, and direct that all my Debts and Funeral Expenses shall be paid as soon as conveniently may be after my decease.
I GIVE AND BEQUEATH unto my wife Evelyn Gwynfa Wallace (neé Lewns) the sum of two hundred pounds; unto my daughter Violet Wallace the sum of two hundred pounds; unto my wife Evelyn Gwynfa Wallace all my literary works and writings for her sole use and profit during her lifetime thereafter the said literary works and writings to be the sole property of my neice Margaret Chesterfield (neé Dolman); all the remainder of my real and personal estate whatsoever and wheresoever I leave to my wife Evelyn Gwynfa Wallace.
I wish my body to be cremated and the ashes scattered on the crematorium gardens.
Should my wife Evelyn Gwynfa Wallace pre-decease me I direct that after my death all the aforesaid literary works shall become the sole property of my neice Margaret Chesterfield and all the remainder of my estate both real and personal whatsoever and wheresoever shall be divided between my daughter Violet Wallace as to two-thirds of the said remainder, and my sister-in-law Gladys Theodora Lewns as to one-third of the said remainder. In this connection I appoint Frank Herbert Dolman and Louisa Naomi Dolman both of 19 St Matthews Road Torquay to act as my executors for which service they shall be paid jointly the sum of fifty pounds.
George Wallace (G. Carlton Wallace)
Signed by the said TESTATOR in the presence of us, present at the same time, who at his request, in his presence, and in the presence of each other, have subscribed our names as witnesses.
Frank Herbert Dolman 19 St Matthews Rd Torquay
Louisa Naomi Dolman 19 St Matthews Rd Torquay.
(Exeter Probate Registry, probate 31st July 1958)
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