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Canon Charles Wilmer Foster, FSA, FRHistS (1866–1935) was an English clergyman, antiquarian, historian and archivist. He founded the Lincoln Record Society in 1910 and served as its secretary and general editor until his death; he made major contributions towards scholarship on the county and diocese of Lincoln, principally through publishing editions of historical documents.
The probate calendar was created by the Probate Registry, which was responsible for proving wills and administrations from 1858 following the enactment of the Court of Probate Act 1857. [1] It replaced a system of ecclesiastical courts.
Lincolnshire Archives is the county record office of Lincolnshire, England It was established as a county service in 1948 by the Lincolnshire Archives Committee, which had been formally constituted on 24 October 1947 with Sir Robert Pattinson as chairman. [ 1 ]
A precursor body was the Lincolnshire Record Society, founded in January 1889, and modelled on other county-based record societies including the Oxford Historical Society (founded 1884) and Somerset Record Society (founded 1886).
In common law jurisdictions, probate is the judicial process whereby a will is "proved" in a court of law and accepted as a valid public document that is the true last testament of the deceased; or whereby, in the absence of a legal will, the estate is settled according to the laws of intestacy that apply in the jurisdiction where the deceased resided at the time of their death.
A probate court (sometimes called a surrogate court) is a court that has competence in a jurisdiction to deal with matters of probate and the administration of estates. [1] In some jurisdictions, such courts may be referred to as orphans' courts [ 2 ] or courts of ordinary.
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The Royal Courts of Justice on the Strand in the City of Westminster. The High Court of Justice was established in 1875 by the Supreme Court of Judicature Act 1873.The Act merged eight existing English courts – the Court of Chancery, the Court of King's Bench, the Court of Common Pleas, the Court of Exchequer, the High Court of Admiralty, the Court of Probate, the Court for Divorce and ...