John Leyland Feilden, Buried Newent and not in The Holy Land (General)

by dink999, Sunday, June 22, 2014, 09:48 (3801 days ago)

I came across this interesting article from the Glos Journal dated 6 Nov 1915, regarding John Leyland Feilden's wish to be buried in The Holy Land

Provision for re-internment in the Holy Land

In the chancery division on Friday Mr Justice Joyce upset a settlement made by the late Mr. John Leyland Feilden, of Newent, Glos., in 1891.

At that time Mr. Feilden lived at Burwash, Sussex and believed with the British Israelitish Society that the English are one of the Ten Lost Tribes.

Accordingly, on the death of his first wife he built a mausoleum on land at the end of his garden, and conveyed the same to trustees with a direction that when the British exodus to the Holy Land took place, his remains and those of his wife were to be removed from England and re-interred in the land allotted to the Tribe of Reuben.
For this £700 in India stock was provided.

In 1894, Mr. Feilden married again, and in 1902 he removed to Newent, where he died this year[1915] at the age of 93.

With everybody’s consent Mr Feilden was buried in Newent Churchyard, and the remains of his first wife removed from the mausoleum and interred in Burwash Churchyard.

The Court was asked to to direct what should be done in respect of the settlement by a summons taken out by one of the trustees.

His Lordship declared that the trusts of the settlement were void, that the land on which the mausoleum was built went to Col. Henry Wemyss Ffielden, a nephew of the dead man, and that the £700 India stock went to the Grand Lodge of Freemasons, who had an interest in it in respect of certain charities.