Ellis Gosling 1836 - 1861
Ellis Gosling , 2nd son. of Busbridge hall, Surrey. REPORTS OF CASES ARGUED AND DETERMINED IK THE HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY. GOSLING V. GOSLING. 1862. November 7, 18. Before the Lord Chancellor Lord Wbstburt. A testator deyised lands in tmst for the use of the second son of a brother for life, w^th remainder to the use of his first and other sons successively in tail male, with successive limitations in remainder for life, and to the first and other sons of the successive tenants for life in tail male ; and he bequeathed his residuary personal estate upon such trusts as were thereby declared con- cerning the devised lands, or as near thereto as the rules of law and equity would admit, but so that no part thereof should vest absolutely in any tenant in tail unless he attained twenty-one. Held, that the trust of the personalty not void for remoteness.^ This was an appeal from a decision of the Master of the Rolls holding a limitation of the trusts of the residuary personal estate of a testator to be void for remoteness, and declaring that the testator died intestate with respect to it. Bennett Gosling, late of Fleet Street, banker, deceased, by his will, dated the 8th of March, 1844, directed that the right to succeed him and to become in his place partner in the bank in which he was, or at his decease should be, a partner, should be offered first to Ellis Gosling the second son of the testator's ^ Affirmed on appeal, Christie v. Gosling, L. R. 1 H. L. 279 ; Holloway v. Webber, L. R. 6 Eq. 623 ; Shelley v, Shelley, L. R. 6 Eq. 640 ; Perry Trusts, § 389 ; Harrington v, Harrington, L. R. 3 Ch. Ap. 664.
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| Born: 17th Jan 1836 | Baptised:
| | Died: 26th Jan 1861 | Buried: Busbridge, , , England 1861
| | Family: Gosling |
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