not the likeliest to obtain a large property by marriage - Castle Rising Norfolk
Fulk Greville Howard Born April 1773, second son of Clotworthy Upton, 1st Baron Templetown at the time Lieut Colonel her majesties 1st Regt of Guards .(by Elizabeth Boughton, a Lady of the Bedchamber to the Princess Amelia), He took the name of Howard when on July 7th 1808 he married Mary daughter and sole heiress of Richard Howard (formerly Bagot) and the Hon Frances Howard www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/Nj1j6b of Castle Rising Norfolk, Levens Westmorland, Ashstead Surrey and Elford Staffordshire at which place he departed this life March 4th 1846 in the 73rd year of his age ........ memorial erected in the church he restored, by his grateful tenantry
(A well-connected Anglo-Irish army officer and former aide-de-camp to the duke of York, Howard had lost the sight of one eye during the Helder expedition of 1799, and had represented Castle Rising on his father-in-law’s interest since 1808. As stipulated in his marriage settlement, following his father-in-law’s death in 1819 he held ‘the castle, manor and chase of Rising, with its 60 burgages, 90 messuages, 20 tofts, 4 mills, 50 gardens, 2,000 acres of farmland, 1,500 acres of marsh and 1,000 acres of moorland’ jointly with his wife, together with estates in Westmorland, Staffordshire and Surrey. The poet Robert Southey*, his guest at Levens in January 1830, wrote to Charles Williams Wynn:
"Of all our contemporaries at Westminster one should not have thought him the likeliest to obtain a large property by marriage; but I believe from what I saw and heard that good fortune of this kind has never been better bestowed".
An astute man of business who employed effective agents, t he consolidated his Castle Rising holdings, restored the church, renovated his mansions, travelled in Devon and kept a close watch over his estate and electoral interests. His will dated 2 June 1842, was proved under £120,000 in England and £4,000 in Ireland.
Fulk also has a memorial at Elford www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/g9betH
His wife Mary who died 19 October 1877 was the residuary legatee. Despite the Howard name being twice saved by Mary's father & Fulk, there was no children from the marriage to continue the line ) The other main beneficiaries were the Bagots (Ashted Park) , Fortescue and Stuart Wortley families, who succeeded her to the english estates, and Fulk's Upton nephews and nieces, for whom he had provided during his lifetime and upon whom his Irish property now devolved.
www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member... - church of St Lawrence, Castle Rising, Norfolk
not the likeliest to obtain a large property by marriage - Castle Rising Norfolk
Fulk Greville Howard Born April 1773, second son of Clotworthy Upton, 1st Baron Templetown at the time Lieut Colonel her majesties 1st Regt of Guards .(by Elizabeth Boughton, a Lady of the Bedchamber to the Princess Amelia), He took the name of Howard when on July 7th 1808 he married Mary daughter and sole heiress of Richard Howard (formerly Bagot) and the Hon Frances Howard www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/Nj1j6b of Castle Rising Norfolk, Levens Westmorland, Ashstead Surrey and Elford Staffordshire at which place he departed this life March 4th 1846 in the 73rd year of his age ........ memorial erected in the church he restored, by his grateful tenantry
(A well-connected Anglo-Irish army officer and former aide-de-camp to the duke of York, Howard had lost the sight of one eye during the Helder expedition of 1799, and had represented Castle Rising on his father-in-law’s interest since 1808. As stipulated in his marriage settlement, following his father-in-law’s death in 1819 he held ‘the castle, manor and chase of Rising, with its 60 burgages, 90 messuages, 20 tofts, 4 mills, 50 gardens, 2,000 acres of farmland, 1,500 acres of marsh and 1,000 acres of moorland’ jointly with his wife, together with estates in Westmorland, Staffordshire and Surrey. The poet Robert Southey*, his guest at Levens in January 1830, wrote to Charles Williams Wynn:
"Of all our contemporaries at Westminster one should not have thought him the likeliest to obtain a large property by marriage; but I believe from what I saw and heard that good fortune of this kind has never been better bestowed".
An astute man of business who employed effective agents, t he consolidated his Castle Rising holdings, restored the church, renovated his mansions, travelled in Devon and kept a close watch over his estate and electoral interests. His will dated 2 June 1842, was proved under £120,000 in England and £4,000 in Ireland.
Fulk also has a memorial at Elford www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/g9betH
His wife Mary who died 19 October 1877 was the residuary legatee. Despite the Howard name being twice saved by Mary's father & Fulk, there was no children from the marriage to continue the line ) The other main beneficiaries were the Bagots (Ashted Park) , Fortescue and Stuart Wortley families, who succeeded her to the english estates, and Fulk's Upton nephews and nieces, for whom he had provided during his lifetime and upon whom his Irish property now devolved.
www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member... - church of St Lawrence, Castle Rising, Norfolk