Wills and Bequests: Mr. Thomas Ryland, of The Redland, Gravelly Hill. Birmingham. J.P., chairman of the Birmingham Exchange Buildings Company and director of the Droitwich Junction Canal Company, late of the firm of Proctor and Ryland, of Birmingham and Bristol and Chester, chemical manure manufacturers, who died on the 1st March last, aged eighty-six years, left estate valued at £171,832 gross and with £121,876 in net personalty, and probate his will dated March 3rd, 1886, with six codicils, the last made in 1903, has been granted to his son, Mr. Howard Proctor Ryland and his sons-in-law, Mr. Alfred Pinsent, Mr. George Roffey and the Rev. William Flory, Canon of Worcester Cathedral. The testator bequeathed to his nurse, Helen Maria Coleman, £500; to his nurse, Gertrude King, £100; to other servants of twelve months’ service each one year’s wages; to his brothers, John Llewelyn Ryland, and Frances Henry Ryland. £500 each; to his son, Sidney Proctor Ryland £15,000, including London and South-Western Railway stock, 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 Mr. William Albert Gardner, and Emma Louisa, wife Mr. George Roffey and Laura, wife Mr. Richard Alfred Pinsent and Susan Proctor, wife 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 valuation of £2,500 the freehold church, Leamington, known as Trinity Church. The Late Mr. left his residuary estate to his son, Mr. Howard Proctor Ryland.
[see similar Cheltenham Chronicle: Saturday 22nd April 1905 and Gloucestershire Echo: Tuesday 18th April 1905]
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GRO0738 Devonport: Richard Alfred Pinsent: 1852 – 1948