Most Will clients that we advise do not appoint Neves as Executors in their Wills. This is particularly true where a client has trusted family members or friends who could act. If this is the case, the usual advice we give is that the friend or family members could choose to seek legal advice if they wished, but appointing a professional Executor may incur an unnecessary cost on behalf of the estate.
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The fact that Neves is 150 years old this year led us to wonder what events were going on in the country in 1867, and so we took to a very popular internet search engine to find out!
Most of the events which popped up were political, so it may be considered a little impolite to discuss them in our blog, but there was one notable event involving the famous Thomas Barnardo which caught our eye.
The Duke of Westminster died on 9 August 2016 with his title passing to his son, Hugh. The estimated value of land owned by the Grosvenor family is on the region of around £9 billion.