Henry Matcham

The will (dated Dec. 7, l882), with a codicil (dated March 13, 1883), of Mr. Henry Matcham late of Townley Castle, Ramsgate, who died on March 13 last, at No. 2, Edith-road, West Kensington, has been proved by James Morshead Barnes, Thomas Thornton, and Frederick Shelley Rix, the executors, the value of the personal estate amounting to upwards of £95,000. The testator bequeaths £5000 and a house in Connaught-square to his sister Mrs. Anne Thornton; £5000 to his sister Mrs. Sarah King ; £2000 to his niece, Mary Ann King ; £5000 to his medical attendant, Edward Bevan Tench; £5000, upon trust, for his sister Mrs. Morant Gale, for life, and then for her children; £5000, upon trust, for his sister Eliza Matcham, for life, and then for the children of his late sister Louisa Michael; £500 each to the Ramsgate Dispensary and the Hospital for Incurables, Putney; £300 each to the Seamen's Home, Ramsgate, and the Smack Boys' Home, Ramsgate; and numerous legacies to friends, executors, servants, and others. The residue of his property he leaves to Richard Brindsley Hooper, of Clifton.