The will of Sir Edward Cunard, Bart., of the city of New York, where he died, April 6 last, at the age of fifty-three, was proved in London, on the 25th alt., under £300,000 personalty, by his brother, William Cunard, Esq., of Halifax, Nova Scotia, and of St. James's-street, Westminster, the acting executor, power being reserved to his nephew, Charles Gilbert Franklyn, Esq., of New York, also an executor appointed. The will is dated July 18, 1866, and is declared as being made in conformity with and is valid by the laws and Constitution of the United States. The testator was possessed of considerable property in the British provinces, also largely interested in the shares of the British and North American Royal Mail Steam-Packet Company, and in the British and Foreign Steam-Packet Company. He has made a liberal provision for his daughters, and leaves the residue of his property between his three sons—leaving to his eldest son, now Sir Bache Cunard, Bart., a moiety thereof, and to his other sons, Edward and Gordon, the remainder equally between them.

Source: The Illustrated London News, Vol. LIV, June 5, 1869, p.579