Will of Charles Hugh Lyle Tinling
This is the last Will and Testament of me Charles Hugh Lyle Tinling now
resident at No. 8 Alfred Street Bath a Major in Her Majesty’s Service
unattached I desire to be buried in the most private manner consistent with
decorum without pomp or shew of any kind and at the smallest possible expense
all arrangements for which I leave to the discretion of my Executors after
named I desire all my just debts funeral and testamentary expenses to be paid I
hereby confirm the settlement made on my marriage with my present dear wife
Frances Wentworth Tinling And I declare that the interest and dividends arising
from the stocks and funds placed In trust by that deed and also by the Will of
Mrs. General Tinling form my Wife’s separate property and that whatever cash
may be in the hands of my Bankers Messrs. Childs & Company of Temple Bar
London at the time of my death belongs to her as her separate money under the
trusts of such respective instruments the said Messrs. Childs and Company
holding powers of Attorney from the Trustees to receive such dividends for her
I give and bequeath all my household and other furniture goods and chattels
plate linen china wearing apparel ornaments wine and other effects to my said
dear Wife And I also give and bequeath to her all that sum of Seven hundred
pounds Stock in the Great Northern Railway Perpetual Preference Five per cent
Shares the certificate of which is with this my Will And also all those three
Massachusetts State Bonds at Five per cent interest being Nos. 345 and 328
dated respectively the First day of October one thousand eight hundred and thirty
eight and 705 dated the first day of April One thousand eight hundred and forty
for two hundred pounds each And also all those my three chili Bonds for One
hundred pounds each of the six per cent loan of One thousand eight hundred and
forty two dated respectively the ninth day of June One thousand eight hundred
and forty two with all coupons to the same several Bonds respectively belonging
And all the rest residue and remainder of my personal Estate whatsoever and
howsoever invested I also give and
bequeath to my said dear Wife And I appoint her Guardian of our dear children
during their respective minorities as I have the fullest confidence in her and
feel perfectly convinced that she will do every justice and act impartially to
each of our beloved children and I recommend her in all things to depend upon
and to follow the advice of my dear Executors
I hereby appoint my dear Brothers George Vaughan Tinling of Reading in
the County of Berks a Major in the Royal Engineers and Edward Burnaby Tinling
of Southampton in the County of Hants a Captain in Her Majesty’s Navy to be the
Executors of this my Will And I hereby declare that my said Executors shall not
be answerable the one for the other of them nor for any involuntary losses And
also that it shall be lawful for my said Executors to reimburse themselves out
of the monies which shall come into their respective hands under this my Will
all costs and expenses which they may incur in the execution thereof And I
hereby revoke all wills and testimentary dispositions by me at any time
heretofore made and declare this only to be my last Will and testament In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my
hand this eleventh day of August One thousand eight hundred and fifty five C. H. L Tinling Major Unattd.
Signed and declared by the said Testator Charles Hugh Lyle Tinling as
and for his last Will and testament in the presence of us who in his presence
at his request and in the presence of each other being all present at the same
time have hereunto subscribed our names as Witnesses
Jno. Evans Captain Bengal Army
retd. 26 Park St. Bath James Gardner Captain
H. P. unattached the Elm Place
Bath
This is a Codicil to the Will of me the within named Charles Hugh Lyle
Tinling Cancelling the above Codicil bearing date 12 June 1858 Having sold my
Massachusetts State Bonds as also my Chilian Bonds and purchased Nine (9)
shares in the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company I do will and bequeath the said Nine shares
together with all interest bonus’s and accumulations of what kind or sort
arrising from the said shares particular of which will be ascertained at my
Bankers Messrs. Child & Co. Temple Bar London to my beloved Wife Frances
Wentworth Tinling and grant her full power to do and act with them, as she may
think and consider fit In Witness
thereof I hereunto set my hand this tenth day of January one thousand eight
hundred and sixty one C
H L Tinling Major Unattd
Signed and declared by the said Testator Charles Hugh Lyle Tinling as
and for his Codicil to this his Will in the presence of us who in his presence
at his request and in the presence of each other being all present at the same
time have hereunto subscribed our names as Witnesses J H Poole
Colonel Clifton
Ambrose Foote Collector of
Customs at Bristol
This is a Codicil to the Will of me the within named Charles Hugh Lyle
Tinling Having purchased two shares in
the Clifton Collage Limited at twenty five pounds (£25) per share I do hereby
will and bequeath the said two shares together with every advantage profits of
what kind or sort soever arrising therefrom to my beloved Wife Frances
Wentworth Tinling and grant her full power to do and act with them as she may
think and consider fit – and in conformity with the ninth article of the rules
of the said collage (viz The Executors and administrators of a deceased
shareholder shall be the only persons recognized by the Company as having any
title to the share of such shareholders) do solicit and appoint my dear
Executors Major George Vaughn Tinling of the Royal Engineers and Captain Edward
Burnaby Tinling of the Royal Navy to apply for these two shares on behalf of my
dear Wife In Witness I hereto set my
hand this 22nd day of March One thousand eight hundred and Sixty two C H L Tinling Major Untd
Signed and declared by the said Testator Charles Hugh Lyle Tinling as
and for his Codicil to this his Will in the presence of us who in his presence
at his request and in the presence of each other being all present at the same
time have hereunto subscribed our names as Witnesses Wm G Chambers 83 High
St Portsmouth
George Triggs 83 High St Portsmouth
On the twenty first day of May 1864 the Will with two Codicils of
Charles Hugh Lyle Tinling formerly of No 8 Alfred Street Bath in the County of
Somerset and late of Southsea in the County of Southampton a Major in Her
Majestys Army deceased who died on the sixth day of March 1864 at Southsea
aforesaid was proved in the District Registry attached to Her Majestys Court of
Probate at Winchester by the Oath Edward Burnaby Tinling of No 23 Carlton
Crescent in the Town and County of the Town of Southampton Rear Admiral in Her Majestys Navy Brother of the said deceased one of the Executors
therein named he having been first sworn duly to administer Power being
reserved of making the like Grant to George Vaughan Tinling Brother of the said
deceased the other Executor named in the said Will whenever he shall apply for
the same Effects under £3,000
Extracted by the Executor No
leaseholds
[My thanks to Dave Jacobs of Southampton for obtaining a
copy of this will for me.]