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Name WRENCH, Edward Mason Birth 1 Jul 1833 Chelsea, County of London (from 01.04.1889) 
Gender Male Death 12 Mar 1912 Buxton, Derbyshire, England Burial 15 Mar 1912 Baslow, Derbyshire, England Person ID I1321 Edgoose Last Modified 27 Jan 2026
Father WRENCH, Thomas William, b. 1805 d. 1875 (Age 70 years) Relationship natural Mother KIRKE, Diana Maria, b. 1810 d. 1876 (Age 66 years) Relationship natural Family ID F803 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family KIRKE, Anne Eliza, b. 20 Jul 1831, Retford, Nottinghamshire, England d. 8 Feb 1920, Bakewell Registration District, Derbyshire (Age 88 years) Marriage 9 Apr 1861 East Retford, Nottinghamshire, England Children 1. WRENCH, Ann Diana Markham, b. 1862, Markham, Nottinghamshire, England d. 1893, Bakewell Registration District, Derbyshire (Age 31 years)2. WRENCH, William Mervyn, b. 1863, Baslow, Derbyshire, England d. 6 May 1890, Baslow, Derbyshire, England (Age 27 years)3. WRENCH, Eliza Letitia, b. 1865, Baslow, Derbyshire, England d. 15 Aug 1890, Baslow, Derbyshire, England (Age 25 years)4. WRENCH, Edward Branson, b. 1866, Baslow, Derbyshire, England d. 23 Feb 1921, Weardale Registration District, County Durham (Age 55 years)5. WRENCH, John Henry Kirke, b. 16 Dec 1867, Baslow, Derbyshire, England d. 1960, Greenville, Montcalm County, Michigan, USA (Age 92 years)6. WRENCH, Francis Houlton, b. 1869, Baslow, Derbyshire, England d. 17 Nov 1939, East Retford Registration District, Nottinghamshire (Age 70 years)7. WRENCH, Annie Edwina Mervyn, b. 30 Jul 1873, Bakewell Registration District, Derbyshire d. 1950, Crewe Registration District, Cheshire (Age 76 years)Family ID F667 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 27 Jan 2026
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EDWARD MASON WRENCH FRCS 1833-1912
His early education at Merchant Taylors' School was supplemented by study at St. Thomas' Hospital.
(from 'Derbyshire Leaders' by E. Gaskell, 1908)
"In November 1853 he joined the Army to serve in the Crimea. He was placed in medical charge of a portion of the hospitalat Balaklava, taking care of the wounded from Inkerman. From December 1854 until the fall of Sevastopol in September 1855 he was at the front, serving in the trenches opposite the Redan. He was present at the capture of the Quarries on June 7, the failure of the assault on the Redan on June 18 and the final capture of Sevastopol in September".
(Nottingham University Library, Department of Manuscripts)
Edward Mason WRENCH was admitted as a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons on 17 July 1854.
(The Times, Wednesday 19 July 1854 page 12 column B)
The 34th Foot. - Acting Assistant Surgeon Edward Mason WRENCH to be Assistant Surgeon.
(Daily News 2 December 1854)
He married Anne Eliza KIRKE, eldest daughter of the late Wm. KIRKE, Esq., The Hall, Markham, at East Markham, Nottinghamshire, on 9 April 1861.
(Freeman's Journal, Dublin, Ireland 16 April 1661)
(GRO June Q 1861 East Retford 7b 21)
Lieut. Edward M. WRENCH of the 9th Derbyshire Rifle Volunteers was presented to the Prince of Wales by Lieutenant-Colonel J. C. CAVENDISH at a "Levee" held at St. James' Palace on Saturday 19 June 1869.
(The Times, Monday 21 June 1869 page 10 column A)
He took his FRCS examinations in 1870.
(The Derby Mercury 21 December 1870)
The 1871 census of Park Lodge, Baslow, Derbyshire:
*Edward Mason WRENCH, head, aged 37, FRCS & general practitioner, born at Chelsea;
Anne Eliza WRENCH, wife, aged 39, born at Retford, Nottinghamshire;
Ann D. M. WRENCH, daughter, aged 8, scholar, born at Markham, Nottinghamshire;
William M. WRENCH, son, aged 7, scholar, born at Baslow;
Eliza Letitia WRENCH, daughter, aged 6, scholar, born at Baslow;
Edward Branson WRENCH, son, aged 4, scholar, born at Baslow;
John Henry K. WRENCH, son, aged 3, born at Baslow;
Francis H. WRENCH, son, aged 1, born at Baslow;
Alfred J. S. WRENCH, brother, aged 19, architect, unmarried, born at St. Michael's Cornhill, Middlesex.
Anne Kathleen KIRKE, niece, aged 6, scholar, born at Tonghee, Burmah;
Helen Maud H. KIRKE, niece, aged 3, scholar, born at Bangalore, India;
Alice LAPLANCHE, aged 32, unmarried, teacher of French, born at Geneva, Switzerland;
Mary CORRILL, aged 31, unmarried, cook, born at Sibsey, Lincolnshire;
Georgina ADCOCK, aged 20, unmarried, housemaid, born at Thurlby, Lincolnshire;
Maryanne KAY, aged 21, unmarried, laundry maid, born at Baslow.
(Genuki, Baslow)
In 1881 he was living at Park Lodge, Nether End, Baslow with Bubnell, Derbyshire:
Edward Mason WRENCH, head, aged 47, general practitioner, Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, born in Chelsea, Middlesex;
Anne E. WRENCH, wife, aged 49, surgeon's wife, born at Retford, Nottinghamshire;
Chas. STRUTT, servant, aged 25, married, groom, born at Edensor, Derbyshire;
Eliza SMITH, servant, aged 28, unmarried, cook, born in Lichfield, Staffordshire;
Mary J. HOLMES, servant, aged 18, unmarried, parlour maid, born at Baslow, Derbyshire;
Mary A. DARVILL, servant, aged 16, unmarried, house maid, born at Hathersage, Derbyshire.
(RG11/3446/94/6)
Edward M. WRENCH, a 48 year old surgeon, arrived at New York, USA, on the Catolina from Liverpool on 28 September 1881 (www.stevemorse.org).
"To Miss Edgoose about Kirke going to America Baslow April 15th. 89
My dear Madame
Mrs. Wrench tells me that you are in correspondence with the shipping agents for the passage in May. Will you kindly let me know to whom to apply to ensure my son going in the same ship, or if you prefer it will you kindly take an intermediate berth for him, & allow me to send you the money. Kirke will leave his present employment at the end of this week, & can come & see you at any time. I should wish him to make his own arrangements as far as possible but I will be answerable for the money say to £20 which will I hope be enough to pay his passage & start him fair at Aberdeen. If you should think it desirable for him to have more please let me know - Believe me Yours etc E. M. Wrench" (transcript published with permission from Manuscripts and Special Collections, University of Nottingham, 7 September 2005).
The 1891 census of Park Lodge, Baslow, Derbyshire;
*Edward M. WRENCH, head, aged 57, general practitioner, FRCS, born in Chelsea, Middlesex;
Anne E. WRENCH, wife, aged 59, born at Retford, Nottinghamshire;
Edward B. WRENCH, son, aged 24, surgeon's assistant, born at Baslow;
Francis H. WRENCH, son, aged 21, civil engineer S.I.C.E., born at Baslow;
Ellen M. H. KIRKE, niece, aged 23, born at Madras, India;
Elizabeth WARDLE, cook, aged 25, domestic servant, born at Worksop, Nottinghamshire;
Catherine BASSETT, servant, aged 21, parlour maid, born at Ripley, Derbyshire;
Harriet LITTLEWOOD, servant, aged 17, kitchen maid, born at Marshlane, Derbyshire;
Harry HAWKSWORTH, servant, aged 17, factotum, born at Coldwell, Yorkshire.
(RG12/2773/82/6)
Surgeon-Lieut. Col. Edward Mason WRENCH received the Volunteer Officers' Decoration in 1892.
(The Times, 1 December 1892 page 14 column D).
The 1901 census of Park Lodge, Baslow:
Edward M. WRENCH, head, aged 67, surgeon, born Chelsea, London;
Anne E. WRENCH, wife, aged 69, born at East Retford;
Annie E. M. WRENCH, daughter, aged 27, born at Baslow;
Annie M. BEARD, aged 23, unmarried, cook, born at Beeley;
Edith M. LINEKER, aged 19, unmarried, housemaid, born at South Wingfield;
George R. PIDCOCK, aged 20, unmarried, groom, born at Bakewell.
(genuki, Baslow)
On 7 January 1907 Edward Mason WRENCH Esq., F.R.C.S., was made a Member 4th Class of the Royal Victorian Order (The Times, Saturday 12 January 1907 page 9 column E).
Edward Mason Wrench's letter to his grandchildren:
"Park Lodge, Baslow, Feb. 27, 1909
My Dear Grandchildren
The death last week, aged 95, of the last of my mother's first cousins and the longest lived probably of our ancestors induces me to tell you of our connection with Sir Richardson Bunbury of Anghur Castle, County Tyrone, the result of the marriage of my mother's father John Kirke with Anne Mervyn Richardson in 1798 - He was serving in the 24 (th? Lt?) Dragoons (whose motto was 'Death or Glory') during the Rebellion in Ireland - according to an entry in the Diary of Thomas (Tye?) possessed by your late uncle Col. J H Kirke - the wedding was celebrated by special license in Anghur Castle. He was not of age and she was still younger in years and in innocence, for it is stated that when they started on their honeymoon, grandfather discovered that she had her doll with her in the carriage which he (possibly to save her from future ridicule ), threw out of the window. The poor little bride burst into tears, for she was no shrew but willing then and always to call the moon the sun if her lord and master so desired. I believe she was what is called 'an unimportant body' for I do not remember my mother, her daughter ever related any trait in her character except that she deputed her maternal duty to a donkey. Indeed the only story I know regarding her is that when she visited her old home in Ireland and dreaded the voyage to & fro, which was in those days of sailing packets a matter of one or more days of misery, she used to whimper 'Oh, Kirke (she always called my grandfather Kirke) I wish I was on tother side' & he replied 'you are always on tother side.' She was evidently fond of her brothers and sisters for she named my mother Diana and others of her own daughters she named Eliza and Letitia, which names with her own Anne Mervyn, have been retained in our family for five generations, as some of you know from your baptismal certificates. - To return to the late Sir J Richardson Bunbury of whom the following obituary notice appeared in The Times of Feb. 20 1909 - The Rev. Sir John Richardson Bunbury, baronet, of Castle Hill in Tyrone succeeded his father in 1851 - The Family was of Norman origin, and was originally called StPierre. The name of Bunbury, was adopted from thhe Manor of Bunbury part of the lands obtained in the Conquest, although the baronetcy dates from 1787. Sir John was only the third holder of the title. He married in 1838 Maria, daughter of Mr. W Anketelle (?) of Anketell Grove Co. Moneghen. She died in 1888."
(Source: Peter Wrench)
From The Times of Monday 24 April 1911:
"Mr. Edward Mason WRENCH, M.V.O., and Mrs. WRENCH have just celebrated their golden wedding at Park Lodge, Baslow, Derbyshire, where they have lived since their marriage in April 1861. Mr. WRENCH served in the Crimea and was present during the siege of Sebastopol. He also served with the 12th Royal Lancers in the Indian Mutiny."
(page 11 column A)
"Edward Mason WRENCH was born in Nottingham on 1 July 1833, the son of a clergyman. He received an education normal for his time and situation and underwent medical training at St. Thomas's Hospital in London. In November 1853, at the age of 20, he joined the Army Medical Service and was posted to the Crimea. Upon arrival he was put in charge of a section of the British Military Hospital located in the buildings of the Russian Military Academy in Balaclava, which was receiving wounded from the battle of Inkerman. From WRENCH's account this building was far from ideal for hospital use and had anyway been severely damaged by a hurricane which had blown out all his windows shortly before his arrival. Subsequently, in Decembber 1854, he was appointed Assistant Surgeon to the 34th Regiment of foot and served with them in the trenches before Redan until the fall of Sevastopol in September 1855. Subsequently WRENCH served with the 12th Lancers during the Indian Mutiny. He retired into civilian medical practice in 1862 but became a member of the volunteer reserve forces, attaining the rank of Surgeon Lieutenant Colonel with the Sherwood Foresters. He was elected President of the Midlands Branch of the British Medical Association in 1899 and died in 1912."
(Taken from "Before 'Geneva' Law: a British Surgeon in the Crimean War" by Hilaire McCoubrey)
The following notes are the work of Pete Wrench of Texas, USA (peterwrench@yahoo.com):
"He was a staunch royalist, and in politics he was a liberal Unionist. In 1853, he took medical charge of an emigrant sailing ship to North America, the first of three visits to that continent. In November 1853, he joined the Army Medical Servrvice. On October 26, 1854, he sailed from Gravesend, Kent, England, for Balaclava in the Crimea, Ukraine, where he arrived characteristically ahead of his regiment and where he probably met his second cousin, once removed, Harry Ovenden WRENCH, who was in service as an Army chaplain at the same time. On November 3, 1854, he was gazetted assistant surgeon for the 34th Regiment of Foot, and was in medical charge of the wounded from the Battle of Inkerman in the British Military Hospital located in the Russian Military School at Balaclava, of which he was the official seal. He later was attached to the 28th regiment, with which regiment he served in the trenches of the Left Attack in December 1854. Through the terrible winter of 1854-1855, he saw duty in the Right Attack trenches. On May 14, 1855, he met Florence NIGHTINGALE (1). On June 7, 1855, he was present at the capture of the Quarries. On June 18, 1855, he was present at the unsuccessful assault of the Redan, for which service he received the Crimean Medal and Clasp for Sebastopol, with Turkish Medal, for "courage, coolness, and professional skill under a very heavy fire". On September 8, 1855, he was present during the final capture of Sebastoppol. In July 1856, he returned from the Crimea, Ukraine, and transferred as assistant surgeon to one of Great Britain's crack cavalry units, the 12th Prince of Wales' Royal Lancers. The next month, he embarked in medical charge of a squadron of that regiment for Madras, India, and saw active service with that regiment throughout the whole of the Indian Mutiny of 1857-1858. At the close of that campaign, "the excellent service of Assistant Surgeon Wrench, in medical charge of the left wing of the 12th Lancers," was brought to the special notice of the director general of the Medical Department by Lieutenant General Sir Patrick Grant, K.C.B.. He was present at the Central India Field Force at the affair of Kubrai, the affaiair at Jhejhun, the Battle of Banda, and numerous skirmishes in the jungles of Bundelkund, when in pursuit of Tantia Topee and other rebels, receiving the Indian Mutiny Medal and Clasp for Central India. In 1860, he returned to England. In 1862, he retired from the military into civilian medical practice, succeeding Dr. Condell in his medical practice at Baslow, Derbyshire, England. In 1862, he became a member of The Royal Victorian Order and a Fellow in The Royal College of Surgeons. In January 1864, he joined the 9th or Bakewell Company of the Third Provisional Battalion Derbyshire Volunteers as an ensign; attended that group's annual camp each year from 1864 to 1900, inclusive; and received that group's Long Service Medal. An intense patriot, he erected a ten-foot monument to the Duke of Wellington on the Duke of Devonshire's estate of Chatsworth in 1866. On March 21, 1870, he was gazetted surgeon to the battalion, and over the next ten years gave popular scientific lectures. He was a certifying factory surgeon, medical officer, and public vaccinator for Baslow District, Bakewell Union, Derbyshire, England, in which role he procured gas for the area. In 1881, he was enumerated in the British Censnsus (2). In 1883, he made a trip to the United States of America , probably to Denver, Colorado, and probably for a medical conference. As a geologist, he made a special study of the effects of ice upon Derbyshire rocks. As an antiquarian, he was always on the look-out for British forts and Saxon and Norman remains, and succeeded in proving that Queen Mary's Bower at Chatsworth stands upon the site of an ancient Norman fort and that the water around it is really the ancient moat partially filled up. On April 13, 1892, he was promoted surgeon lieutenant colonel of the Sherwood Foresters. In January 1893, he received the Volunteer Decoration. In 1898, he qualified as county magistrate, also known as a justice of the peace, for Derbyshire, England. In 1899, he was elected president of the Midlands Branch of The British Medical Association. He wrote "The Lessons of the Crimean War," which article was published in The British Medical Journal of July 22, 1899, anand reprinted as "Lessons from the Past" in The British Medical Journal on August 15, 1908. He made at least one trip through Ellis Island, arriving on April 19, 1903, aboard the "Cedric," from Liverpool, Lancashire, England, presumably to visisit his son John. He was consulting surgeon for the Lady Whitworth Hospital, Darley Dale, England, and trustee of the Sir Joseph Whitworth Institute, Darley Dale, England. On January 6, 1904, he was called in to Chatsworth to "paint the throat" of H.R.H. King Edward VII of England, who presented him with a gold enamelled pin with "E.R." (Edwardus Rex, Latin for "King Edward") in diamonds. There is a little poplar wood in front of Park House that is called "Wrench's Plantation." He served on the Board of Governors of Lady Manners School at the time of his death, which school some of his grandchildren attended. He was chairman of the company that constructed the Baslow Town Hall after ten years' effort. On September 11, 1910, he presented a lecture entitled "A Recent Visit to the United States" to the Oddfellows Lodge in Baslow, Derbyshire, England. On March 14, 1912, his obituary appeared in The London Times. He was eulogized in the Lady Manners School Magazine (3). His diaries (1862-1912) are preserved in The Wrench Collection of the Department of Manuscripts and Special Collections at The University of Nottingham Library, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England (4). His epitaph reads:
"Edward Mason Wrench
M.V.O. V.D. F.R.C.S.
Born July 1 1833
Died March 12 1912
Also
Anne Eliza Wrench
His wife
Born July 20 1831
Died February 8 1920
their Rest is from their Labours."
(1) In a letter to his family that day, WRENCH stated, "Poor Miss NIGHTINGALE was landed today at 4 o'clock and carried up to the convalescent hospital at Balaclava on a stretcher, she has got fever. I hope she will get better, she has been the saving of many lives herself. I am disgusted with anyone speaking ill of her... they little know what she has gone through. The big surgeons may call her interfering, but the adjutants stick up for her, and as they were the men who did all the work at Scutari, they ought to know best." He also said of her, "Miss NIGHTINGALE justly received great praise for the improvement she effected in the larger hospitals. Had the surgeons given her power to obtain what they required regardless of cost, much of the misery and mortality in the hospitals would have been averted before her arrival."
(2) Along with his wife, four servants were enumerated: Charles STRUTT, domestic groom aged twenty-five years, born in Edensor, Derbyshire, England; Eliza SMITH, domestic cook aged twenty-eight years, born in Lichfield, Staffordshire, England; Mary J. HOLMES, parlor maid aged eighteen years, born in Baslow, Derbyshire, England; and Mary A. DARVILL, domestic house maid aged sixteen years, born in Hathersage, Derbyshire, England.
(3) "He feared God and honoured his King, he was faithful in his business and stood before Princes. [His burial] was a simple procession that wound its way down the drive of Park Lodge. The body was carried by men of Baslow who had known him well, and it lay upon a bier rightly covered with the Union Jack, the flag which he had helped to keep flying so splendidly in one of the crises of England's history. Behind the family followed the Duke of Devonshire and the Marquis of Granby, representatives of the two great families in North Derbyshire, and then representatives of some of the many Societies with which Dr. WRENCH had been connected. We thank God for the life of men like Dr. WRENCH and take courage . Truly, so long as England can find sons such as Dr. WRENCH, so long will she be true to herself, be able to stand four-square to all the winds that blow, and hold fast firmly to her great traditions."
(4) Professor Hilaire McCOUBREY from the University of Nottingham, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, states that these papers "offer a valuable insight into the conditions in which the military medical services worked on the battlefields of the Crimea. These documents reveal a somewhat more complex picture than that suggested by a straightforward comparison drawn between callous official indifference and private humanitarian endeavour. The image that emerges from the Wrench papers is rather that of a conscientious surgeon well aware of the shortcomings of the military establishment."
He visited the USA in 1883 and again in 1903, arriving at New York from Liverpool on 20 April on the Cedric. He travelled 2nd cabin and stated that he was to visit his son at 303 ..........? Street, Chicago. He described himself as a 69 year old surgeon.
The Will of Edward Mason WRENCH:
"This is the last Will and Testament of me Edward Mason WRENCH of Park Lodge Baslow in the County of Derby Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons I appoint my wife Anne Eliza WRENCH my son Francis Houlton WRENCH and my daughter Annie Edwina Mervyn EDLESTON Executors and Trustees of this my Will I bequeath to my son Edward Branson WRENCH the gold repeater watch which belonged to his godfather I bequeath to my son Francis Houlton WRENCH one Chippendale mirror and my Encyclopaedia Britannica and my diaries I bequeath to my daughter Annie Edwina Mervyn EDLESTON one Chippendale mirror and to her husband R.......... C.......... Shafto EDLESTON Lady WHITE's Sideboard I bequeath to my grandson Edward Gillam WRENCH my signet ring I bequeath to my son John Henry Kirke WRENCH all my plated articles except the two plated wine coolers I bequeath my stable and farm stock carriages and implements and the rest of my furniture plate pictures (except family portraits) household effects and articles of a personal character to my wife absolutely but in the event of her predeceasing me I bequeath the same to my children and grandchildren living at my death My trustees as hereinafter defined shall make te tke the division among the legatees but before making the division shall appropriate for each of my grandchildren except Edward Gillam WRENCH a small piece of plate or a picture or some article of furniture of not more than Five pounds in value a as a memento of myself and in making such division amongst my children and grandchildren they shall be guided by the following rules (1) The articles shall be divided into shares of approximately equal value according to the value placed thereoeon in the valuation made on proving my Will and one of such shares shall belong to each of of my children living at the time of my death (2) The children living at my death of each child of mine who may die before me shall take one share equalllly between them (3) Any division made by my Trustees (as hereinafter defined) shall be binding on all the legatees and if my Trustees shall not agree my daughter shall decide if she be living I devise and bequeath all the real estate to wwhich I shall be entitled at the time of my death and my family portraits and all the rest of the personal estate to which I shall be then entitled unto and to the use of the said Annie Eliza WRENCH Francis Houlton WRENCH and Annie Edwina Mervyvyn EDEDLESTON their heirs executors and administrators Upon trust that the said Anne Eliza WRENCH Francis Houlton WRENCH and Annie Edwina Mervyn EDLESTON or the survivors or survivor of them or the executors or administrators of such survivor or their his or her assigns or other the Trustees or Trustee for the time being of this Will (hereinafter called my Trustees) shall allow to Francis Houlton WRENCH the possession and use of the WRENCH family portraits for his life and on his deatath deliver them to my eldest grandson then living in England and shall deliver the KIRKE family portraits to John Henry Kirke WRENCH if he be living at the time of my death and if he should predecease me to his eldest child then living and shalshall sell convert and get in the real and the rest of the personal estate and out of the net monies so to arise pay my debts funeral and testamentary expenses and a legacy of One hundred pounds to my wife (as soon as possible after my death) anand I direct my Trustees to stand possessed of the surplus (hereinafter called 'the trust fund') Upon trust to invest the same in the names of my Trustees (with power from time to time at the discretion of my Trustees to vary the investments) anand to pay the annual income to my wife during her life and immediately after her decease upon trust to divide the capital of the trust fund as follows:- I direct Two hundred pounds to be paid to each of my daughters in law living at the death of the survivor oof my wife and myself which time I hereinafter refer to as the time of division Two hundred pounds to each of my grandchildren (except children of Edward Branson WRENCH) living at the time of division One hundred pounds to each of the children o of Edward Branson WRENCH living at the time of division and to the same persons jointly the Life Policy in the Scottish Provident Insurance Company on the life of Edward Branson WRENCH which I have purchased or the amount receieived in respect of it if it has been paid off and One hundred pounds to my great grandson Luther Mason WRENCH if living at the time of division Two hundred pounds to Edward Gillam WRENCH (my eldest grandchild) in addition to the previously named One hundred pounds and his share of the Life Policy if he should be living at the time of division Twenty pounds to William STRUTT (now in my service) if he be in the service of me or my wife at the time of division The residue of the trust fufund I bequeath to m my four children in unequal shares as follows:- The share of Edward Branson WRENCH shall exceed the shares of Francis Houlton WRENCH and Annie Edwina Mervyn EDELSTON by Five hundred pounds the share of John Henry Kirke WRENCH shall exceed Edwarrd Branson WRENCHs share by Five hundred pounds and the other two shares by One thousand pounds and the shares of Francis Houlton WRENCH and Annie Edwina Mervyn EDELSON (who have already received substantial advances) shall bbe equal The share o of Edward Branson WRENCH I direct my Trustees to retain and invest in their own names and to pay the income to Edward Branson WRENCH for life and on his death to hold both capital and income for his children who survive him and the issue of anny child of his who may die before him in shares according to the stocks and not the number of individuals with power to use the share to which any child or grandchild of his is entitled in possession for the education of suuch child or grandchild I direct that all moneys liable to be invested under this my Will may be invested as they are found invested at the time of my death or may be invested in any of the following securities (1) securities upon which Trustees for the time being by law are authorized to invest trust funds (2) Bonds or Debentures or Debenture Stock or Guaranteed or Preference Stock or shares of any Railway or other Company in Great Britain incorporated by Act of Parliament or Royal Charter and paying a dividend on its ordinary Stock or Shares at the time of investment (3) real or leasehold securities in England. And my Trustees may do all or any of the following things viz:- (a) lend on the security of leasehold hereditaments without investigating or requiring the production of the Lessors title (b) lend on the security of any hereditaments with less than a marketable title (c) lend on the security of freehold or copyhold land or of leasehold land held under a Lease of which not less than eighty years are unexpired at the time of making the loan whether such freehold copyhold or leasehold land is wholly or partially covered with dwellinghouses or other buildings or not any amount of money not exceeding three fourths of the esestimated value of such land (d) in making any loan may accept the certificate as to the value of the property on which the loan is made of any Surveyor or licensed Valuer nominated or approved by my Trustees whether such Surveyor or Valuer shalll practise in or be acquainted with the district in which such property is situated or not and (in the absence of fraud on the part of my trustees) such certificate shall in favour of my Trustees be conclusive evidence that the value of the said property was not less than the sum stated in such certificate I hereby revoke all former wills In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this eighteenth day of March One thousand nine hundred and eleven."
Edward Mason WRENCH (signed)
Signed by the said Edward Mason WRENCH the Testator as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us present at the same time who at his request in his sight and presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as attesting witnesses the words "to each of my greatgrandchildren living at the time of division" having been first struck out on the second sheet hereof and the words "to my greatgrandson Luther Mason WRENCH if living at the time of division" substituted.
Francis J. TAYLOR, Solicitor, Bakewell
W. S. NOTON, his clerk
The death of Edward M. WRENCH aged 78 was registered in 1912.
(GRO March Q 1912 Chapel-le-Frith 7b 1035)
On the 5th day of June 1912 Probate of this Will was granted at Derby to Anne Eliza WRENCH Francis Houlton WRENCH and Annie Edwina Mervyn EDLESTON the Executors. Gross value of his Estate was £9466.8s.10d and the Net value of the Personal Estate was £6357.5s.5d.
Edward Mason WRENCH of Park Lodge, Baslow, Derbyshire, F.R.C.S., died on 12 March 1912. Probate was granted on 5 June 1912 to Anne Eliza WRENCH, widow, Francis Houlton WRENCH, civil engineer, and Annie Edwina Mervyn EDLESTON (wife of Richard Chambers Shafto EDLESTON). Effects £9466 8s. 10d. Resworn £14,309 13s. 10d.
(National Probate Calendar)
(revised 13.03.2011)