Will of Thomas Hogg late of Nash, farmer, 1891 (proved 1897)

Oxford Probate Registry

This is the last Will and Testament of me Thomas Hogg late of Nash and now of Winslow in the County of Bucks lately a Farmer but now out of business I appoint my Son Roads Hogg and my friend Thomas Price Willis  of Winslow aforesaid Solicitor (who are hereinafter referred to as ‘my said Trustees’) to be the Executors and Trustees of this my Will I devise and bequeath all the real and personal estate whatsoever and wheresoever that I shall be beneficially entitled at the time of my decease unto my said Trustees Upon trust to sell call in and convert the same into money or such part thereof as does not consist of money and with and out of the moneys produced by such sale calling in and conversion and with and out of my ready money to pay my funeral and testamentary expenses and debts and divide the residue of the said money unto and equally between my sons the said Roads Hogg and George Hogg absolutely And I declare that my reason for excluding my son Walter Thomas Hogg out of any benefit from this my Will is that I have already expended a considerable sum on his account And I also declare that the said Thomas Price Willis whether he shall accept the Trusteeship or not shall be the Solicitor to my trust property and as such notwithstanding his acceptance of the Trusteeship be allowed all professional charges which if employed as a Solicitor to my Trustees not being himself a Trustee he would be entitled to make. Lastly I revoke all other Wills In Witness whereof I the said Thomas Hogg the testator hereunto set my hand the Sixth day of May One thousand eight hundred and ninety one
Thomas Hogg [signature]

Signed and acknowledged by the above named Thomas Hogg the Testator as his Will in the presence of us present at the same time who at his request in her presence and the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as Witnesses
William N. Midgley [signature] Clerks to Messrs Willis and Willis
Stanley W. Midgley [signature] Solicitors, Winslow

On the Thirteenth day of March 1897 Probate of this Will was granted at Oxford to Roads Hogg the Son and Thomas Price Willis, the Executors
It is hereby certified that the foregoing is a correct Copy
Dated this Eighteenth day of March 1897

BE IT KNOWN  that at the date hereunder written the last Will and Testament of Thomas Hogg of Winslow in the County of Buckingham, formerly of Nash in the same County, deceased, who died on the 28th day of September 1896, at Winslow aforesaid, and who at the time of his death had a fixed place of abode at Winslow aforesaid within the District of the Counties of Oxford, Berks and Buckingham, was proved and registered in the District Probate Registry of Her Majesty’s High Court of Justice at Oxford and that Administration of the personal Estate of the said was granted by the aforesaid Court to Roads Hogg of Lane End in the County of Buckingham, Butcher, and Thomas Price Willis of Winslow aforesaid, Solicitor, the Executors named in the said Will, they having been first sworn to well and faithfully administer the same
Dated the 13th day of March 1897
Gross value of Estate                           £1,418 - 16 - 0
Net value of personal Estate               £1,401 -   1 - 6

Extracted by Willis and Willis, Solicitors, Winslow

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Notes

Thomas Hogg was aged 76 when he died. He was born at Aylesbury and farmed at Pinks End in Whaddon parish. The 1891 Census records him living with his son Roads Hogg at Finemore Hill, Quainton, after his wife Elizabeth died in 1889. He isn't listed in the 1895 Kelly's Directory so it's not known where he lived in Winslow, but he owned some property: Register of Electors 1884 records Thomas Hogg of Whaddon as owner of freehold cottages in Buckingham Road (?High Street).