Wills and Bequests: Estate duty has been paid on £317,501 as the net or actual value, the gross value being £422,151 of the personal estate of Mr. Henry C. Fulford, of Augustus Road, Edgbaston Birmingham, and of 69 Cadogan Gardens, chief proprietor of the Holt Brewery, President of the Liberal Council and Treasurer of the Liberal Association, and for a short time M.P. for Lichfield, who died on January 18, aged forty-seven, at Cairo. The will, with a codicil, was made in Cairo on January 16, the executors are his widow, his nephew, Mr. H. R. Hodgkinson, of Norwood House, Erdington and Mr. R. A. Pinsent of Birmingham, solicitor, to each of whom (for the executor-ship) the testator bequeathed £250 and to Mr. Pinsent, as acting trustee, a commission of five per cent per annum on the net income of the estate but such commission is not to exceed £500 a year … (details of will) …
[see similar: Liverpool Mercury: Thursday 15th April 1897]
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GRO0738 Devonport: Richard Alfred Pinsent: 1852 – 1948