Mr. Thomas Ryland: Mr. Thomas Ryland, of the Redlands, Gravelly Hill, Birmingham, J.P., chairman of the Birmingham Exchange Buildings Company, and a director of the Droitwich Junction Canal Company, late of the firm of Proctor and Ryland, of Birmingham and Bristol and Chester, chemical manure manufacturers, died on the 1st March last, aged eighty-six years. He left an estate valued at £171,832 gross and with £121,876 in net personalty; and probate of his will, dated March 3, 1896, with six codicils, the last made in 1903, has been granted to his son, Mr. Howard Proctor Ryland, and his sons-in-law, Mr. Richard Alfred Pinsent, George Raley, and the Rev. William Flory, Canon Worcester Cathedral. The testator bequeathed to his nurse, Helen Maria Coleman, £500; to his nurse, Gertrude King, £10,0oo; to other servants of twelve months service each one year’s wages; to his brothers, John Llewellyn Ryland and Francis Henry Ryland, £500 each; to his son, Sidney Proctor Ryland, £5.000 including London and South Western Railway stock and London Gas Light and Coke Company stock and Buenos Ayres Railway stock; to his son Henry Proctor Ryland, £16,000; to his son Walter. £15,000; and upon trust for his daughters Alice Mary, wife of Mr. William Albert Mr. Gardner, and Emma Louisa, wife of Mr. George Roffey, and Laura, wife of Mr. Richard Alfred Pinsent, and Susan Proctor, wife of the Rev. William Flory, and his granddaughter Gertrude Jennie Ryland Gell, £13,000 each, with the option to Mrs. Flory to take as part of her share at a valuation of £2,500 the freehold proprietary chapel at Leamington known as Trinity Chapel. The late Mr. Ryland left his residuary estate to his son, Mr. Howard Proctor Ryland.
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GRO0738 Devonport: Richard Alfred Pinsent: 1852 – 1948