PETERSFIELD.
THE LATE MR. RING.—We regret to announce the death of Mr. John William Ring, which event took place at his residence in the High-street, on Friday evening last, at the age of 73 years. The deceased was an old and highly respectable farmer and grazier of the neighbourhood, whose superior production of fat beasts, particularly those exhibited at the Christmas markets, has often appeared in the columns of this paper. Considerable interest has been caused in consequence of the death of the deceased, inasmuch as he was the male heir under the will of the late Richard Ring, Esq., of Portsea and Hambledon, who, it will be recollected left his large property, both real and personal, to accumulate for the long period of 21 years, and then to be inherited by the existing heir-at-law. The deceased gentleman leaving no issue, the property descends to the four daughters of his late brother William, all of whom are in humble circumstances, one having two deaf and dumb children, will, in the course of six years, receive a share each of £40,000.
Surrey Advertiser—Saturday 21 October 1865
A LUCKY FELLOW.—A week or ten days’ since, a man named Richard Head, a journeyman carpenter, of Worplesden was dismissed from his employment, through being five minutes behind six in the morning at his work. When contemplating what he should do, the postman brought him a letter, announcing the agreeable intelligence that an uncle, (Mr. Ring, of Petersfield,) had died, by which event his wife and her three sisters became entitled to an equal share in £200,000, viz., £50,000 each. It may be added, an eminent Q.C. has given it as his opinion, after perusing the documents, that the title of the sisters is perfectly good.