Harriet Townsend: Slatter, Son and More, solicitors, Stratford-upon-Avon

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20 March 1908 Will of Harriet Townsend of Alveston, spinster, bequeathing: - To sister Louisa Ann all household furniture and domestic articles, buildings with yardlands and appurtenances in Tiddington used as an elementary school. - To sister Lousa Ann and John Slatter of Stratford-upon-Avon, gent., Trustees and executors, all residue of real and personal estate for sale to pay following legacies. - To Teresa Charlotte Townsend, her sister-in-law £500. - To Cyril Morton, now in South Africa £100. - To Henry Dee, a gardener formerly employed by Charles John Townsend, her late brother, £20. - To Eliza Harris Dyer, her maid £50. - To Thomas Horseman, her gardener £25. - To Eliza Orris of Leamington £25. - To Vicar and Churchwardens of Alveston £1000 for investment, the income to be used for benefit of sick and needy of Alveston. - To sister Louisa Ann £500 for investment; the income to be hers for life and after her death to Eliza Harris Dyer. - To Trustees to retain £15,000 for investment, the income for sister Louisa Ann for life and then for various charities and legacies. Codicils: 19 June and 1 July 1911. Proved 30 October 1913. With executors' papers and legacy receipts. 30 April 1889 Conveyance by the Trustees of the will of Sir Robert North Collie Hamilton, deceased, and pursuant to an Order in Chancery for the sale of parts of the estate to pay debts, to Harriet Townsend for £475 of land at Tiddington with buildings used as an elementary school. Plan.