| Description | Executors: wife's nephews Arthur Huish Ridgway, Rastrick, Bertram Henry Ackroyd Ridgway, Stoke on Trent, friend Edward Evelyn Barren, Grays Inn, Middlesex, solicitor
Bequests: executors, Halifax and York Art Galleries, Beverley Public Library, Dorothy Huish daughter of late brother in law Marcus Bourne Huish, her sister Marcia Reyne Barr and her children, and their brother Marcus Winslow Huish and children, children of Gwendolen England daughter of brother in law William Wavell, Ethel Mary Peters daughter of late brother in law Henry Akroyd Ridgway and children, her brother Edward John Ridgway and children, their brother Bertram Henry Akroyd Ridgway and children, their brother Arthur Huish Ridgway and children, brother Frederick D'Arcy Champney, his daughters, his sons Edward Akroyd Champney and Roy Champney, their younger sister Dorothy Champney, Cecil Nelson Champney son of cousin Alfred C Champney, his brother Norman D'Arcy Champney, godchild Christopher Wade son of late Edward Wade, Hull, Violet D Huish, Catherine Ripley daughter of friend Sir Frederick Ripley, chauffeur Jones, maid servants, Beverley Grammar School, National Refuges for Homeless and Destitute Children for the Arethusa and Chichester training ships, Royal Sailors Rests, Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen, National Incorporated Association for the Reclamation of Destitute Naif Children also known as Dr Barnardo's Homes, National Gallery, Wakefield Diocesan Church Organisation Society, Wilberforce School for the Blind at York, Halifax Tradesmen's Benevolent Institution, Yorkshire Society for orphan and educational work, Cancer Hospital (Free) at Fulham Road, London, National Council of the Young Mens Christian Association Incorporated for the Parish Hall at Horton hereafter to be called the 'Champney Hall', endowment of Beverley Reference Library, Art Gallery and Public Garden; Margaret Champney Home of Rest at Horton, later to be conveyed to trustees of the Ogilvie charities
Property at Horton
Codicil: friend Harry S E Vanderpant, 62a Curzon Street, Mayfair, as executor in lieu of Bertram Henry Akroyd Ridgway; bequests to him, Catherine Ripley, maid Ada Begg, maid Ada Scott, 24 Sep 1928
Codicil: reduction of bequest to Beverley Library, it now having been built, and increase of bequest to Wakefield Diocesan Church Organisation, 1 Oct 1928
Codicil: increase of certain legacies; stained glass windows in Beverley Minster for wife Margaret Champney and himself, 11 Oct 1928
Codicil: variation of bequest relating to Beverley Library and gardens, 18 Dec 1928
Probate: 8 Apr 1929
Endorsed: notes on John Edward Champney
Photocopy
Attached: photocopy of marriage certificate of John Edward Champney and Margaret Stuart Huish, Belper, Derbyshire, 16 Dec 1874 |