Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,257 pages of information and 244,498 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

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William John Bush

From Graces Guide

William John Bush ( -1889) of W. J. Bush and Co

1889 January 10th. Died.

1889 Will. 'Probate of the will of William John Bush, of Thornleigh, Sydenham-hill, and Bishopsgate. has been granted to the executors, Mary Ann Bush, the widow, William Ernest Bush, Richard Arthur Bu3h, and James Mortimer Bush, sons of the deceased. The testator bequeaths his personal estate, of the value of £90,075 upon trust, to raise the sum of £60,000, and divide the same between his three daughters and two youngest sons, and to invest the residue, upon trust, for his widow, for life, and at her decease to divide such residue between all bis children. The testator also devises his freehold properties upon similar trusts. The goodwill of the testator's business of a manufacturing chemist, the capital employed therein, and other assets, together with the freehold business premises in Artillery- lane, Bishopsgate, and Ash-grove, Hackney, were conveyed by the testator to his five eldest sons in his lifetime. The testator, also in his lifetime, made additional provision for his widow.'[1]

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Sources of Information

  1. Morning Post - Friday 08 February 1889