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This Trust Instrument is made the twelfth day of May One thousand nine hundred and fifty–nine Between the Right Honourable James Richard Earl Stanhope K.G., P.C., D.S.O., M.C. of the one part and Coutts & Company of 440 Strand in the County of London of the other part
Whereas:—
The said Earl Stanhope is desirous of settling the Chevening Estate together with the contents of Chevening House and other chattels upon the trusts hereinafter set forth and accordingly by a Vesting Deed bearing even date with but executed contemporaneously with this Trust Instrument and made between the same parties and in the same order as these presents the Chevening Estate was vested in the said Earl Stanhope upon the trusts declared concerning the same by a Trust Instrument of even date being this Trust Instrument
The said Earl Stanhope is further desirous of creating a trust fund for maintaining the Chevening Estate
It is apprehended that the trusts hereinafter declared in respect of the said Estate and of the said trust fund and the said contents and chattels will infringe certain rules of law and certain statutory provisions unless these presents are confirmed and made valid by an Act of Parliament and it is intended that a Bill shall be introduced into Parliament for the confirmation of these presents accordingly
Now this Deed Witnesseth as follows:—