The present Trustees, John Castle Pomeroy and James Brummage Account of the Will of Samuel Parker, Residuary Legatees following death of Caroline Parker, widow of Samuel Parker October 1906. Caroline, nee Sparkhall, Parker died 2nd March 1906. Amounts and the details of money paid to Caroline Laura Parker and Jessie Limmer Parker who inherited under the Will.

Daughters Jessie Limmer Parker married Alfred Guiver on 31st January 1894 at Wymondham, Norfolk, England. The other daughter Caroline Laura Parker married James Brummage, 17th March 1894 at Wymondham, Norfolk, England.

Samuel Parker born 1814 at Wymondham was the son of James and Sophia, nee Scarlett, Parker he married Caroline Sparkhall 11th August 1846 at Wymondham. Caroline was the daughter of John Sparkhall and Elizabeth Limmer and was born in 1824 at Wymondham.

The Parker Family of Wymondham Documents.

The present Trustees, John Castle Pomeroy and James Brummage Account of the Will of Samuel Parker, Residuary Legatees following death of Caroline Parker, widow of Samuel Parker October 1906. Caroline, nee Sparkhall, Parker died 2nd March 1906. Amounts and the details of money paid to Caroline Laura Parker and Jessie Limmer Parker who inherited under the Will.

Daughters Jessie Limmer Parker married Alfred Guiver on 31st January 1894 at Wymondham, Norfolk, England. The other daughter Caroline Laura Parker married James Brummage, 17th March 1894 at Wymondham, Norfolk, England.

Samuel Parker born 1814 at Wymondham was the son of James and Sophia, nee Scarlett, Parker he married Caroline Sparkhall 11th August 1846 at Wymondham. Caroline was the daughter of John Sparkhall and Elizabeth Limmer and was born in 1824 at Wymondham.

The Parker Family of Wymondham Documents.

Duneira house and gardens at Mount Macedon.

(Extract from Macedon Ranges cultural heritage and landscape study/Trevor Budge and Associates. 4 v. 1994.).

Henry Suetonius Officer reputedly aquired the Duneira site from

1872-1877 (Blocks 4,5,10,11,14) paying some £84 for 38 acres but

rate listings give Robert Officer as the owner. .

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Suetonius Henry Officer (1830-1883).

Officer was born in Hullgreen, New Norfolk, Tasmania 1830, the

son of Sir Robert & Lady Officer. He was educated in Edinburgh

with his brother, Charles, and returned to the colonies, seeking

gold in Victoria but eventually settling for pastoralism in

company with his brothers and Charles Miles{ ibid.}. They managed

stations in the Wimmera and the Riverina, James marrying in 1866

and commencing construction of a 20 room homestead at Murray

Downs & Willakool, two adjoining properties fronting the Murray

River. After experimentation with irrigation, via steam pumps and

windmills, he was able to develop extensive orchards and crops. He was also, like his brother, interested in

acclimatisation, having developed an ostrich farm on his property

(Charles was a council member of the Zoological & Acclimatisation

Society for 10 years, president in 1887). .

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Blighted by illness, Suetonius reputedly moved to Leighwood,

Toorak (Melbourne) in 1881, having erected the first stage of

Duneira at Mount Macedon, but died two years later. However his son, Henry jnr. was

born at South Yarra in 1869 and his next child, Jessie, was born

at Macedon in 1877, indicating that he was in residence at both

places prior to the dates previously supposed..

.

Suetonius probably commissioned the first stage of Duneira to be

erected as a summer house between c1874-6. The architect Levi

Powell is thought to have designed a house for him there around

that date. The first improvements listed on the site were

stables in 1874 when Robert Officer was rated as owning the site. The house was reputedly not occupied regularly

until c1881 when Suetonius moved to Toorak.

However it appears he and his family were in residence at Duneira

by 1877..

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When Suetonius died in 1883 his wife, Mary Lillias Rigg Officer

(nee Cairns), of Glenbervie, Glenferrie Road, Toorak was the

co-executor of the estate, with merchant Robert Harper; she is

the rate occupier in 1888. Mrs Officer was the

sister of Mrs Robert Harper (Huntly Burn) and Mrs John C lloyd

(Montpelier, later Timsbury): all three houses were reputedly

built in the same period... .

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The house bricks for the first stage were said to have come from

the Macedon Brick Kiln (once near the Macedon railway station,

set up in c1888-9?) with external walls built in 14" Flemish bond

from slop-moulded bricks (9 inch by 2.1/2). The bricks were reputedly carted

from Macedon by Cogger. The footings were of bluestone

and reputedly dressed sandstone blocks also survive, suggesting

that the first stage was face brick with stone quoins and the

next renovation c1888 added wings and a cement coating to the

whole complex. Floor frames were reputedly supported on stone

dwarf walls and joists were 6x2.1/2 inch jarrah, with flooring

being 6 inch pine}. Seaweed was apparently used for

ceiling insulation..

.

The servants' wing verandah was skillion in form with timber

posts with classical capitals. The main verandah had coupled

posts (rebuilt with single posts) a panelled frieze and slimmer

capitals set just under the frieze rail}. The

balustrade may have been of single cast-iron balusters..

.

Just prior to the sale to the speculator, James Smith Reid in

1890, and during the occupation of Edward Dyer, major additions

were made to the house complex and a reputedly a caretaker's

lodge was placed at the gate (survives, altered c1920s) but this

appears to have been added by Reid in the early 1890s. .

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The added rooms were reputedly: billiard (32'x24') and dining

rooms, kitchen, servants bathroom, service block with 5 rooms

(engine room, dairy, pantry, store, boiler room, built of

Northcote machine made 9" brickwork). Damp proof coursing was

used in these additions compared to the slate of the first stage

and acetylene gas (engine room) was thought used for lighting

from this period, as reticulated in 1.1.2" mains and 1/2 inch

branches to internal and some external verandah lights.

Cast-iron elaborately detailed water radiators were also used,

with hot water pumped from the boiler room, and later a duplicate

boiler allowed hot water to be reticulated taps in the house{

ibid.}..

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The description in rate books expands to villa and cottages (on

37 acres) for the first time under Reid in c1893 but the annual

valuation had already peeked in 1888 at £200 in the occupation of

Edward Dyer. An Edward Dyer was listed at that time as a fruiterer in

Burwood Road, Hawthorn..

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The water supply is from a concrete tank fed by a spring.

Outbuildings include timber clad stables, storerooms,

blacksmith's shop, coachman's room, milking bails, hay shed and a

green house. The stables (extended) were described as having had

a shingled gabled roof (rear skillion) with loft entered via an

external stair at the north end. It had a blacksmith's

shop (altered for garage c1941), carriage and coachman's rooms,

two stores and vertically boarded main doors{ ibid.,p24}. The

milking and hay sheds had hipped roof forms and timber cladding

and frame. The interior was white-washed. The greenhouse

in the secret hedged garden is of a later date, with a timber

frame built up on 11" cavity brickwork walls, with a brick floor

and heated water pipes under each shelf. The boiler is near the

entry..

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The `Gisborne Gazette' reported on Duneira in 1903 under the

heading of `A Popular Health Resort':.

`Duneira certainly merits a few remarks though beautiful

residences and grounds are by no means rare in that locality..

(when Reid purchased it, it was `little better than a wilderness'

and he had spared no expense to restore it).. After passing the

lodge at the main entrance, a broad serpentine drive leads up to

the house and from there the grounds are laid out in broad

sloping lawns surmounted with choice borders and fringed with

trees which however do not interfere to any great extent with the

view. There is of course no lack of flowers which grow

luxuriantly on the mount but the great feature of Duneira is the

lawns, those open green expanses which delight the eye at all

times of the year. the secret of this perennial verdure is to be

found in the copious water supply with which Macedon is blessed

(spring at rear of house, tapped by tunnelling 40m into the hill,

ie. grass grows up to base of Monterey pines)..

.

During Reid's time there, the valuation increased marginally in

1899-1900 and again soon after, with Reid's address being given

as care of Rosstrevor Magill, South Australia, in c1909-10. JS Reid died in 1922, leaving

the property to the management of JS Reid jun..

.

The main garden elements are: sweeping lawns, box hedges, weeping beech and cherry, extensive hedges (holly, laurel), a hedged

`secret garden' with green house, mature firs, elm and chestnut ì

avenues. There is also a fountain and a wide spreading weeping elm to the rear of the house, near the tennis court..

.

Significant Trees:.

`Ulmus x hollandica'.

`Prunus' "shirotae".

`Albies procera'.

`Ilex kingiana'.

Abstract of Title Trustees of Will of John F Clark to Lewknor Cottage, Picton Road, Ramsgate Kent, 1904. List several previous Indentures etc.plus value of any houses and what and what cannot be built on the Land. First 19th & 25th March 1799 redemption of Land Tax by John Garrett.

Amongst many others:

28th August 1866 Indenture between Sir Robert Garrett, George Young, Edward Newman, Robert Beckford Johnstone, John Francis Bontenis.

7th July 1876 John Frederick Clark died. His wife Mary Ann Clark and son-in-law Birches Frost Wills are named as Executors and Trustees

2nd December 1878 Agreement between John Frederick Clark and Jennings Butler for £100.

28th December 1896 Jennings Butler died and by his Will of 1895 Thomas Newman, Alfred Thomas Brewer and his Niece Isabella Butler Long made Trustees and Executors of his Will.

5th March 1898 Isabella Butler Long died.

15th September 1902 Indenture of Mortgage between Mary Ann Clark, Widow of Ramsgate, Birches Frost Wills, Carpenter, Ramsgate, Sarah Kingdom Klug of 112 Clifton Hill, St Johns Wood, London, Widow.

John Frederick Clark born circa 1821 at Ramsgate was a Carpenter/Builder. He married twice: Elizabeth Hooper Moses 30th June 1844 at Ramsgate and Mary Ann Bobey 23rd October 1871 at St. Lawrence, Kent.

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Flora court (5, Wiedner Mainstreet 88, Hartmann alley 1), secessionist rental house, built in 1901/1902 by Oskar Laske (student of Otto Wagner and Karl König, from 1907 exclusively painter and graphic artist), Viktor Fiala and builder J. Barak as executors after a draft of Wunibald Deininger. The remarkable building shows (as one of the few rental houses of Vienna) in its brittle outline the tendencies of the Viennese Secessionism around 1900 in the follow-up period after Otto Wagner, the original (partly coloured) decor, unlike the floral-curvilinear trends of Western modernism, always serving to emphasize the tectonics of the structure (see also Villa Vojcsik by Otto Schönthal).

Florahof (5, Wiedner Hauptstraße 88, Hartmanngasse 1), secessionistisches Miethaus, erbaut 1901/1902 von Oskar Laske (Schüler Otto Wagners und Karl Königs, ab 1907 ausschließlich Maler und Graphiker), Viktor Fiala und Baumeister J. Barak als Ausführende nach einem Entwurf von Wunibald Deininger. Der bemerkenswerte Bau zeigt (als eines der wenigen Miethäuser Wiens) in seiner spröden Gliederung die Tendenzen des Wiener Secessionismus um 1900 im Anschluss an Otto Wagner, wobei der originelle (teils färbige) Dekor, im Gegensatz zu den floral-kurvilinearen Tendenzen des westlichen Jugendstils, stets zur Betonung der Tektonik der Gliederung dient (vergleiche Villa Vojcsik von Otto Schönthal).

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Church of St Mary,

Monument to Sir Wymond Carye d. 1612; Alabaster and marble; commissioned by his brother Sir Edward Carye of Aldenham and Sir Edward’s son. Sir Henry Carye, Sir Wymond’s executor. East end of north aisle.

The monument is set with fine disregard for the aisle windows, perhaps no surprising since Sir Wymond had demolished the 40ft long chancel. The monument was described by Blomefield: ‘At the east end of the north isle is a stately monument for Sir Wymond Carye, with his effigies of alabaster, and in armour, lying on an altar tomb of marble, his head resting on a pillow, hands joined, and erect; over him is raised a beautiful arch of marble, &c. supported by porphyry pillars of the Corinthian order, and on the summit, the arms of Carye, but so defaced by time, and so high, as not to be well accounted for.’ The inscription under the arch is decorated with coronets on an acanthus crown, damaged on the right, angels heads (that on the left missing), fruit and reminders of death in the pomegranates, skull above crossed bones, spade and shovel around a crown(?) of acanthus and the winged hour glass.

The inscriptions are now difficult to read, but were transcribed by Blomefield: ‘Here lyeth in hope and expectation of that joyful day of the resurrection, when the Saviour of the whole World shall appear in power and judgment, to awake all those who have slept in him, to be pertakers of the everlasting blessedness of his eternal kingdom, Sir Wymond Carye of Snettesham in the county of Norfolk Kt. sometime of Thremhale Priory in Essex, first branch of that family of the Carys which is descended from Edmund Beanford, duke of Somerset, and so from John of Gaunt duke of Lancaster, erected by his only brother, Sir Edward Carye of Aldenham in Hertfordshire, master and treasurer of his majesties jewels and plate, and of Sir Henry Carye of C — in Bucks, son and heir of the said Sir Edward Carye joynt executor of the last will of Sir Wym. Carye, who lived about 75 years, & in peace and happiness and in the comfortable testimony of a good conscience and stedfast faith in Christ, died April 3, 1612.’

No decoration, presumably coats of arms, remain on the tomb chest. Sir Wymond had rented the lordship of the manor from the crown under Queen Elizabeth and James I, it was acquired outright by Sir henry Carye in 1614. Sir Wymond was knighted at Whitehall in 1604 and had married Catherine Jernangen, the widow of Henry Crane of Chilton, Suffolk. They had no children and she made her will, as Dame Catherine Carey of Fleet Farm, Chilton, Suffolk in 1613.

Francis Blomefield, 'Smethdon Hundred: Snettesham Lordship', in An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 10 (London, 1809), pp. 370-381 http; Nikolaus Pevsner and Bill Wilson, Buildings of England. Norfolk 2: North West and South, New Haven and London, 1997, pp. 654-56.

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Letter from Harriet, nee Bowes, Rayner, Waipukurau, New Zealand sent to Whites and Pomeroy Solicitors Wymondham, regarding inheritance from Mother dated 7th June 1889.

Harriet Bowes born circa 1854 at North Tuddenham, Norfolk was the daughter of Edward and Harriet, nee Elliot, Bowes. She was the wife of Elias Rayner. Her mother died North Tuddenham on 18 Apr 1888.

Harriet Rayner died in 1939 at Hastings, New Zealand

15th March 1906 Letter from Barclay & Co Gurney’s Bank, Norwich, asking for Probate or Burial Certificate of Mrs. Caroline Parker. Sent to Pomeroy & Son, Solicitors.

Samuel Parker born 1814 at Wymondham was the son of James and Sophia, nee Scarlett, Parker he married Caroline Sparkhall 11th August 1846 at Wymondham. Caroline was the daughter of John Sparkhall and Elizabeth Limmer and was born in 1824 at Wymondham.

Caroline, nee Sparkhal, Parker died 2nd March 1906.

The Parker Family of Wymondham Documents.

Monument to William Henry Fortescue, Viscount Clermont and Earl of Clermont in Ireland †1806. Marble. South chancel. Commissioned by his nephew and executor William Fortescue, the second Viscount. Signed: De Carle &Son, Bury, Suffolk.

This, as Jon Bayliss noted, is a key monument for attributions to the De Carle workshop. The inscription is set within an open pediment with urn under a crown on an aureole and fluted Corinthian capitals, suggesting a doorway, with the coat of arms in the apron. The design had been used in the monuments to Matthew †1779 and Sarah Goss at St Peter Hungate, Norwich, to Anthony Norris †1786 at Barton Turf, and to Charles Parrott †1787 at Saham Toney. At St Peter Hungate the apron shows a roundel with profile portrait bust, probably by de Carle’s senior partner, John Ivory. Ivory had retired in the 1790s and after the death of his son Thomas in 1805 the business was sold by his widow in October 1806. This may explain why the De Carles, who had moved one of their family workshops to Bury, felt free to sign a monument whose design may owe much to John Ivory.

Clermont was 85 when he died, having been appointed Baron Clermont in 1770 and a Viscount in 1776, both in the Peerage of Ireland. He was succeeded, as the inscription notes, by his nephew, who apologises at the end that he: ‘was away in Ireland at the time of his decease.’ Viscount Clermont had Pickenham Hall rebuilt by Sir Robert Taylor in 1777-78. It was rebuilt by William Pilkington in 1812-13 on the orders of the second Viscount Clermont.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viscount_Clermont; Nikolaus Pevsner and Bill Wilson, Buildings of England. Norfolk 2: North West and South, New Haven and London, 1997, 519; biography of John Ivory in Ingrid Roscoe, Emma Hardy & MG. Sullivan, A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660-1851, online at the Henry Moore Foundation

composite details of the 2 halves of the of the signature at the base of each pilaster: De Carle &Son, Bury, Suffolk.

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1980 BMW 635CSi auto.

Supplied by Sorensons of King's Lynn (BMW).

Last MoT test expired in August 2012.

Anglia Car Auctions, King's Lynn -

"Offered on behalf of the executors, this 87,515 mile example was supplied new by Sorensons of King's Lynn, now Listers. Obviously cherished by it's four owners, the car has not been used since, we believe, around 2012 and will require a degree of straight-forward mechanical recommissioning. The brakes are sticking and a fuel line has split rendering it impossible for us to start the car. However, the engine turns freely and attempts to fire. Complete with full original tool-kit, torch and service wallet.

Chassis number: WBA53420005585364

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James（Jacques Joseph）Tissot（1836 -1902）

Oil on canvas

68 x 92 cm

Signed bottom - left : J.J. Tissot

Provence:

John Polson, of Tranent and Thornly, his executors' sale, Christie's London, 21 July 1911 ; Sir Edward J. Harland, Baroda House, London, his executors' sale, Christie's London, 31 May 1912 ; Ingegnoli Collection, Milan, his executors' sale, Galleria Pesaro Milan, May 1933 ; Private Collection, Milan 2014.

Exhibition :

London, Grosvenor gallery, 1879, number 95 as Rivals, Manchester, Royal Manchester Institution, Exhibition of Modern Paintings and Sculpture, 1879, number 355, priced £400 ; Milan, Palazzo della Permanente, La Mostra Nazionale di Pittura, "L'Arte eil convito", 1957, number 188.

Literature :

Athenaeum, 10 May 1879, "The Grosvenor Gallery Exhibition", pp. 607-8, 4 May 1879, "The Grosvenor Gallery", p.3 ; Graphic, 10 May 1879. "The Royal Academy and the Grosvenor Galleries" by Tom Taylor, p. 463 ; Manchester Guardian, 3 Sep 1979. " Royal Institution, First Notice" p.5 ; The Spectator, 31 May 1879, p.691 ; The Times, 2 May 1879, "The Grosvenor Gallery", p.3 ; Ugo Ojetti, La Galleria Ingegnoli, Milano（1933）, p.9 and plate 191 ; Willard E. Misfeldt, James Jacques Joseph Tissot : A Bio-Critical Study, PhD dissertation, Washington University, 1971, pp. 162-163, 191 ; Willard E. Misfeldt 1982, Albums, p.52 ; Michael Wentworth, James Tissort, Oxford, 1984, pp. 88, 119, 141, 145-6, 147, 151, 203 and plate 159 ; Christopher Wood, Tissot : The Life and Work of Jacques Joseph Tissot, 18836-1902, Boston, 1986, p.106 ; Margaret Flanders Darby, "The Conservatory in St John's Wood", Seductive Surfaces : The Art of Tissot, dited by Katherine Lochnan, New Haven, 1999, pp. 163, 166, 180-181 and figure 73.

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Mrs Ann Poskitt relict of Mr Mark Poskitt 1802........ ..erected by her executors Mr Joseph Howard Ship Chandler Hull, Mr Richard Acton Pontefract - Wistow church Yorkshire

Monument to William Henry Fortescue, Viscount Clermont and Earl of Clermont in Ireland †1806. Marble. South chancel. Commissioned by his nephew and executor William Fortescue, the second Viscount. Signed: De Carle &Son, Bury, Suffolk.

This, as Jon Bayliss noted, is a key monument for attributions to the De Carle workshop. The inscription is set within an open pediment with urn under a crown on an aureole and fluted Corinthian capitals, suggesting a doorway, with the coat of arms in the apron. The design had been used in the monuments to Matthew †1779 and Sarah Goss at St Peter Hungate, Norwich, to Anthony Norris †1786 at Barton Turf, and to Charles Parrott †1787 at Saham Toney. At St Peter Hungate the apron shows a roundel with profile portrait bust, probably by de Carle’s senior partner, John Ivory. Ivory had retired in the 1790s and after the death of his son Thomas in 1805 the business was sold by his widow in October 1806. This may explain why the De Carles, who had moved one of their family workshops to Bury, felt free to sign a monument whose design may owe much to John Ivory.

Clermont was 85 when he died, having been appointed Baron Clermont in 1770 and a Viscount in 1776, both in the Peerage of Ireland. He was succeeded, as the inscription notes, by his nephew, who apologises at the end that he: ‘was away in Ireland at the time of his decease.’ Viscount Clermont had Pickenham Hall rebuilt by Sir Robert Taylor in 1777-78. It was rebuilt by William Pilkington in 1812-13 on the orders of the second Viscount Clermont.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viscount_Clermont; Nikolaus Pevsner and Bill Wilson, Buildings of England. Norfolk 2: North West and South, New Haven and London, 1997, 519; biography of John Ivory in Ingrid Roscoe, Emma Hardy & MG. Sullivan, A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660-1851, online at the Henry Moore Foundation

detail of the apron with coat of arms

October 23, 1911

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Draft Abstract of Title of Henry Arthur Lucy of 24 Carlton Gardens, Herne Bay, Kent to Leasehold premises at 3 Brooke Road, Stoke Newington under Will of Harriett Jones, 20 Albion Hill, Ramsgate, 1905.

Refers to various Indentures giving details of previous owners and terms of Lease. E.g. 19th November 1883 between William Ambrose Tyssen Amerherst, MP of Didlington Hall, Norfolk, Robert Goodall of 1 Evering Road, Stoke Newington, Middlesex, Builder, Harriett Jones wife of William Henry Jones of 30 Huntingdon Street, Kingsland Road, Middlesex, Gas Fitter.

20th January 1898 Will of Harriett Jones residing at the Five Bells Inn, Hoo, Kent. Henry Arthur Lucy, 3 Brooke Road, Stoke Newington, Jeweller’s Assistant named as Executor.

3rd March 1904 Codicil to Will of Harriett confirms Henry Arthur Lucy of 20 Albion Hill, Ramsgate as Executor.

8th May 1904 Harriet died at 20 Albion Hill, Ramsgate. The 1901 census shows Henry and his wife, Eliza Sophia Jones and children living at 24 Carlton Gardens, Herne Bay. He died in 1908.

Church of St Peter,

Monument to the ancestors of Edward Atkyns. Marble. Commissioned by Edward Atkyns 1750. South wall of chancel. Possibly by Robert Page to a design by Sir Henry Cheere.

The monument, framed in a Gothic arch with trefoil head, is divided between a cartouche with coat of arms, a long inscription set in a lugged architrave under a decorative scroll and the funerary monument whose lions’ paws rest a black marble plinth. The frame was introduced in emulation of the monument in the south transept of Westminster Abbey, commissioned by Edward Atkyns from Sir Henry Cheere and ready by the 15 December 1746. In his will Atkyns specified that: ‘my executors lay out a sum of money not less than two hundred pounds and not more than three hundred in erecting a monument of myself and my ancestors in the chancel of the Parish church at Ketteringham, both in model, size and inscription as near as conveniently be (to that in Westminster Abbey) and that I desire that notice may be taken in the monument in Westminster Abbey that another one is set up in Ketteringham church and to take notice on both monuments that they were erected out of the veneration and regard that I had for the memory of my ancestors.’

The ancestors mentioned in the main inscription on both monuments were:

Sir Edward Atkyns †1669, a Baron of the Exchequer;

Sir Robert †1709, his eldest son, Chief Baron of the Exchequer and Speaker of the House of Lords;

Sir Edward †1698, his youngest son, also Chief Baron of the Exchequer, who retired to Norfolk in the (Cromwellian) revolution;

Sir Robert eldest son of the Sir Robert † 1709, a gentleman scholar, author of a History of Gloucestershire, who died in 1711.

Finally a tablet on the sarcophagus of both added: ‘In memory of his ancestors, who have so honourably presided in the Courts of Justice in Westminster Hall, EDWARD ATYKYNS Esqr. late of Ketteringham in Norfolk, second son of the last named Sir Edward, caused this monument to be erected. He died January the 20th 1750 aged 79 years.’

Atkyns had bought Ketteringham Hall from Henry Heron (ca. 1675-1730) who had inherited the Hall through his marriage to Abigail, Sir William Heveningham’s daughter. The sale was probably around 1695, when Heron inherited his father’s estate of Cressy Hall, Lincolnshire in.

The attribution of the Ketteringham monument remains open. There is no doubt that the monument in Westminster Abbey is by Henry Cheere, two of Cheere’s drawings for it were sold at Christies Dec. 1982 lot 104, but, with the exception of Matthew Craske (The Silent Rhetoric of the Body. A History of Monumental Sculpture and Commemorative Art in England, 1720-1770, 2007, 198-201 and footnotes 30 and 31 on p.467), who believes both monuments are by Cheere, doubts remain and it has been attributed, notably by Pevsner, to the Norwich sculptor Robert Page. The argument was well summed up by Jon Bayliss who noted that the framing arch at Ketteringham, intended to echo that at Westminster Abbey, does not resemble other more up-to frames by Cheere. The Abbey monument rests on four legs, rather than two lion paws, whose ‘furry cuffs’ have no parallels in other comparable monuments. He offered as a possible explanation is that after his work for the Churchman family in St Giles, Cheere was aware that the city had a sculptor in the shape of Robert Page who was capable of matching the standards expected in his own workshop and that he could sub-contract the Atkyns monument to Page.

Matthew Craske, cited above, notes that the family memorial belongs with a group of commissions ‘For great old men planning their death with no sons to inherit, one of the problems was to ensure that their elected heir acted as instructed.’ He interprets the choice of texts with a quote from another scholar working on the same era, Sheerer West: ‘Tory families in particular were intent upon proving their relationship with the past…(and that) their histories sought to prove that their subjects had a long association with the Royal family both before and following the civil war.’

www.westminster-abbey.org/our-history/people/edward-and-r..., accessed 17/07/2015

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Church of St Peter,

Monument to the ancestors of Edward Atkyns. Marble. Commissioned by Edward Atkyns 1750. South wall of chancel. Possibly by Robert Page to a design by Sir Henry Cheere.

The monument, framed in a Gothic arch with trefoil head, is divided between a cartouche with coat of arms, a long inscription set in a lugged architrave under a decorative scroll and the funerary monument whose lions’ paws rest a black marble plinth. The frame was introduced in emulation of the monument in the south transept of Westminster Abbey, commissioned by Edward Atkyns from Sir Henry Cheere and ready by the 15 December 1746. In his will Atkyns specified that: ‘my executors lay out a sum of money not less than two hundred pounds and not more than three hundred in erecting a monument of myself and my ancestors in the chancel of the Parish church at Ketteringham, both in model, size and inscription as near as conveniently be (to that in Westminster Abbey) and that I desire that notice may be taken in the monument in Westminster Abbey that another one is set up in Ketteringham church and to take notice on both monuments that they were erected out of the veneration and regard that I had for the memory of my ancestors.’

The ancestors mentioned in the main inscription on both monuments were:

Sir Edward Atkyns †1669, a Baron of the Exchequer;

Sir Robert †1709, his eldest son, Chief Baron of the Exchequer and Speaker of the House of Lords;

Sir Edward †1698, his youngest son, also Chief Baron of the Exchequer, who retired to Norfolk in the (Cromwellian) revolution;

Sir Robert eldest son of the Sir Robert † 1709, a gentleman scholar, author of a History of Gloucestershire, who died in 1711.

Finally a tablet on the sarcophagus of both added: ‘In memory of his ancestors, who have so honourably presided in the Courts of Justice in Westminster Hall, EDWARD ATYKYNS Esqr. late of Ketteringham in Norfolk, second son of the last named Sir Edward, caused this monument to be erected. He died January the 20th 1750 aged 79 years.’

Atkyns had bought Ketteringham Hall from Henry Heron (ca. 1675-1730) who had inherited the Hall through his marriage to Abigail, Sir William Heveningham’s daughter. The sale was probably around 1695, when Heron inherited his father’s estate of Cressy Hall, Lincolnshire in.

The attribution of the Ketteringham monument remains open. There is no doubt that the monument in Westminster Abbey is by Henry Cheere, two of Cheere’s drawings for it were sold at Christies Dec. 1982 lot 104, but, with the exception of Matthew Craske (The Silent Rhetoric of the Body. A History of Monumental Sculpture and Commemorative Art in England, 1720-1770, 2007, 198-201 and footnotes 30 and 31 on p.467), who believes both monuments are by Cheere, doubts remain and it has been attributed, notably by Pevsner, to the Norwich sculptor Robert Page. The argument was well summed up by Jon Bayliss who noted that the framing arch at Ketteringham, intended to echo that at Westminster Abbey, does not resemble other more up-to frames by Cheere. The Abbey monument rests on four legs, rather than two lion paws, whose ‘furry cuffs’ have no parallels in other comparable monuments. He offered as a possible explanation is that after his work for the Churchman family in St Giles, Cheere was aware that the city had a sculptor in the shape of Robert Page who was capable of matching the standards expected in his own workshop and that he could sub-contract the Atkyns monument to Page.

Matthew Craske, cited above, notes that the family memorial belongs with a group of commissions ‘For great old men planning their death with no sons to inherit, one of the problems was to ensure that their elected heir acted as instructed.’ He interprets the choice of texts with a quote from another scholar working on the same era, Sheerer West: ‘Tory families in particular were intent upon proving their relationship with the past…(and that) their histories sought to prove that their subjects had a long association with the Royal family both before and following the civil war.’

www.westminster-abbey.org/our-history/people/edward-and-r..., accessed 17/07/2015

detail of lion's paw

1903 details of meetings concerning Mrs. Caroline Parker, mortgages and repairs on property

28th March – 15th October 1903 details of meetings concerning Mrs. Caroline Parker, the mortgages and repairs on property including the Browick Property held in trust under Samuel Parker’s Will: Giving details of meetings with family and others.

Samuel Parker born 1814 at Wymondham was the son of James and Sophia, nee Scarlett, Parker he married Caroline Sparkhall 11th August 1846 at Wymondham. Caroline was the daughter of John Sparkhall and Elizabeth Limmer and was born in 1824 at Wymondham.

The Parker Family of Wymondham Documents.

Draft Abstract of Title of Henry Arthur Lucy of 24 Carlton Gardens, Herne Bay, Kent to Leasehold premises at 3 Brooke Road, Stoke Newington under Will of Harriett Jones, 20 Albion Hill, Ramsgate, 1905.

Refers to various Indentures giving details of previous owners and terms of Lease. E.g. 19th November 1883 between William Ambrose Tyssen Amerherst, MP of Didlington Hall, Norfolk, Robert Goodall of 1 Evering Road, Stoke Newington, Middlesex, Builder, Harriett Jones wife of William Henry Jones of 30 Huntingdon Street, Kingsland Road, Middlesex, Gas Fitter.

20th January 1898 Will of Harriett Jones residing at the Five Bells Inn, Hoo, Kent. Henry Arthur Lucy, 3 Brooke Road, Stoke Newington, Jeweller’s Assistant named as Executor.

3rd March 1904 Codicil to Will of Harriett confirms Henry Arthur Lucy of 20 Albion Hill, Ramsgate as Executor.

8th May 1904 Harriet died at 20 Albion Hill, Ramsgate. The 1901 census shows Henry and his wife, Eliza Sophia Jones and children living at 24 Carlton Gardens, Herne Bay. He died in 1908.

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Church of St Peter,

Monument to the ancestors of Edward Atkyns. Marble. Commissioned by Edward Atkyns 1750. South wall of chancel. Possibly by Robert Page to a design by Sir Henry Cheere.

The monument, framed in a Gothic arch with trefoil head, is divided between a cartouche with coat of arms, a long inscription set in a lugged architrave under a decorative scroll and the funerary monument whose lions’ paws rest a black marble plinth. The frame was introduced in emulation of the monument in the south transept of Westminster Abbey, commissioned by Edward Atkyns from Sir Henry Cheere and ready by the 15 December 1746. In his will Atkyns specified that: ‘my executors lay out a sum of money not less than two hundred pounds and not more than three hundred in erecting a monument of myself and my ancestors in the chancel of the Parish church at Ketteringham, both in model, size and inscription as near as conveniently be (to that in Westminster Abbey) and that I desire that notice may be taken in the monument in Westminster Abbey that another one is set up in Ketteringham church and to take notice on both monuments that they were erected out of the veneration and regard that I had for the memory of my ancestors.’

The ancestors mentioned in the main inscription on both monuments were:

Sir Edward Atkyns †1669, a Baron of the Exchequer;

Sir Robert †1709, his eldest son, Chief Baron of the Exchequer and Speaker of the House of Lords;

Sir Edward †1698, his youngest son, also Chief Baron of the Exchequer, who retired to Norfolk in the (Cromwellian) revolution;

Sir Robert eldest son of the Sir Robert † 1709, a gentleman scholar, author of a History of Gloucestershire, who died in 1711.

Finally a tablet on the sarcophagus of both added: ‘In memory of his ancestors, who have so honourably presided in the Courts of Justice in Westminster Hall, EDWARD ATYKYNS Esqr. late of Ketteringham in Norfolk, second son of the last named Sir Edward, caused this monument to be erected. He died January the 20th 1750 aged 79 years.’

Atkyns had bought Ketteringham Hall from Henry Heron (ca. 1675-1730) who had inherited the Hall through his marriage to Abigail, Sir William Heveningham’s daughter. The sale was probably around 1695, when Heron inherited his father’s estate of Cressy Hall, Lincolnshire in.

The attribution of the Ketteringham monument remains open. There is no doubt that the monument in Westminster Abbey is by Henry Cheere, two of Cheere’s drawings for it were sold at Christies Dec. 1982 lot 104, but, with the exception of Matthew Craske (The Silent Rhetoric of the Body. A History of Monumental Sculpture and Commemorative Art in England, 1720-1770, 2007, 198-201 and footnotes 30 and 31 on p.467), who believes both monuments are by Cheere, doubts remain and it has been attributed, notably by Pevsner, to the Norwich sculptor Robert Page. The argument was well summed up by Jon Bayliss who noted that the framing arch at Ketteringham, intended to echo that at Westminster Abbey, does not resemble other more up-to frames by Cheere. The Abbey monument rests on four legs, rather than two lion paws, whose ‘furry cuffs’ have no parallels in other comparable monuments. He offered as a possible explanation is that after his work for the Churchman family in St Giles, Cheere was aware that the city had a sculptor in the shape of Robert Page who was capable of matching the standards expected in his own workshop and that he could sub-contract the Atkyns monument to Page.

Matthew Craske, cited above, notes that the family memorial belongs with a group of commissions ‘For great old men planning their death with no sons to inherit, one of the problems was to ensure that their elected heir acted as instructed.’ He interprets the choice of texts with a quote from another scholar working on the same era, Sheerer West: ‘Tory families in particular were intent upon proving their relationship with the past…(and that) their histories sought to prove that their subjects had a long association with the Royal family both before and following the civil war.’

www.westminster-abbey.org/our-history/people/edward-and-r..., accessed 17/07/2015

20th December 1902 – 20th February 1903 details of the meetings re Mrs. Caroline Parker, the mortgages and repairs on property including the Browick Property held in trust under Samuel Parker’s Will.

Samuel Parker born 1814 at Wymondham was the son of James and Sophia, nee Scarlett, Parker he married Caroline Sparkhall 11th August 1846 at Wymondham. Caroline was the daughter of John Sparkhall and Elizabeth Limmer and was born in 1824 at Wymondham.

The Parker Family of Wymondham Documents.

Indenture dated 19th February 1907 for sale of 1 York Street, Ramsgate, Kent under Will of James Mercer Edwards by Executors Anne Mary Edwards, Widow, of Ramsgate, Gilbert Edwards Bryant, of the Royal Artillery Barracks, Scarborough, Yorkshire, Thomas Newman, Solicitor’s Clerk of Ramsgate, Kent and The Ramsgate Cinque Ports and County Permanent Building Society.

Quotes Indenture dated 5th August 1877 whereby James Barber Edwards of Deal sold the premises to James Mercer Edwards of Ramsgate. James Mercer Edwards made his Will dated 30th August 1894 he gave all his real estate to his Wife Anne Mary Edwards and his Son-in-law Captain Gilbert Edwards Bryant and his Clerk Thomas Newman in Trust to be sold. All three were named as Trustees. He died 3rd March 1896.

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Will of Eleanor Woodcock, wife of David Woodcock, Platelayer, Whittingham, Northumberland, 12 August 1911.

Executor: David Woodcock. Beneficiaries: David Woodock, and her childen (Unamed).

Witnesses: John Balmbra, Alnwick and William B. Young, Alnwick

Great shot of the Executor set all ready to roll.

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1903 details of meetings concerning Mrs. Caroline Parker, mortgages and repairs on property

28th March – 15th October 1903 details of meetings concerning Mrs. Caroline Parker, the mortgages and repairs on property including the Browick Property held in trust under Samuel Parker’s Will: Giving details of meetings with family and others.

Samuel Parker born 1814 at Wymondham was the son of James and Sophia, nee Scarlett, Parker he married Caroline Sparkhall 11th August 1846 at Wymondham. Caroline was the daughter of John Sparkhall and Elizabeth Limmer and was born in 1824 at Wymondham.

The Parker Family of Wymondham Documents.

1903 details of meetings concerning Mrs. Caroline Parker, mortgages and repairs on property

28th March – 15th October 1903 details of meetings concerning Mrs. Caroline Parker, the mortgages and repairs on property including the Browick Property held in trust under Samuel Parker’s Will: Giving details of meetings with family and others.

Samuel Parker born 1814 at Wymondham was the son of James and Sophia, nee Scarlett, Parker he married Caroline Sparkhall 11th August 1846 at Wymondham. Caroline was the daughter of John Sparkhall and Elizabeth Limmer and was born in 1824 at Wymondham.

The Parker Family of Wymondham Documents.

Church of St Mary,

Monument to Sir Wymond Carye d. 1612; Alabaster and marble; commissioned by his brother Sir Edward Carye of Aldenham and Sir Edward’s son. Sir Henry Carye, Sir Wymond’s executor. East end of north aisle.

The monument is set with fine disregard for the aisle windows, perhaps no surprising since Sir Wymond had demolished the 40ft long chancel. The monument was described by Blomefield: ‘At the east end of the north isle is a stately monument for Sir Wymond Carye, with his effigies of alabaster, and in armour, lying on an altar tomb of marble, his head resting on a pillow, hands joined, and erect; over him is raised a beautiful arch of marble, &c. supported by porphyry pillars of the Corinthian order, and on the summit, the arms of Carye, but so defaced by time, and so high, as not to be well accounted for.’ The inscription under the arch is decorated with coronets on an acanthus crown, damaged on the right, angels heads (that on the left missing), fruit and reminders of death in the pomegranates, skull above crossed bones, spade and shovel around a crown(?) of acanthus and the winged hour glass.

The inscriptions are now difficult to read, but were transcribed by Blomefield: ‘Here lyeth in hope and expectation of that joyful day of the resurrection, when the Saviour of the whole World shall appear in power and judgment, to awake all those who have slept in him, to be pertakers of the everlasting blessedness of his eternal kingdom, Sir Wymond Carye of Snettesham in the county of Norfolk Kt. sometime of Thremhale Priory in Essex, first branch of that family of the Carys which is descended from Edmund Beanford, duke of Somerset, and so from John of Gaunt duke of Lancaster, erected by his only brother, Sir Edward Carye of Aldenham in Hertfordshire, master and treasurer of his majesties jewels and plate, and of Sir Henry Carye of C — in Bucks, son and heir of the said Sir Edward Carye joynt executor of the last will of Sir Wym. Carye, who lived about 75 years, & in peace and happiness and in the comfortable testimony of a good conscience and stedfast faith in Christ, died April 3, 1612.’

No decoration, presumably coats of arms, remain on the tomb chest. Sir Wymond had rented the lordship of the manor from the crown under Queen Elizabeth and James I, it was acquired outright by Sir henry Carye in 1614. Sir Wymond was knighted at Whitehall in 1604 and had married Catherine Jernangen, the widow of Henry Crane of Chilton, Suffolk. They had no children and she made her will, as Dame Catherine Carey of Fleet Farm, Chilton, Suffolk in 1613.

Francis Blomefield, 'Smethdon Hundred: Snettesham Lordship', in An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 10 (London, 1809), pp. 370-381 http; Nikolaus Pevsner and Bill Wilson, Buildings of England. Norfolk 2: North West and South, New Haven and London, 1997, pp. 654-56.

detail of the top of the monument

Draft Abstract of Title of Henry Arthur Lucy of 24 Carlton Gardens, Herne Bay, Kent to Leasehold premises at 3 Brooke Road, Stoke Newington under Will of Harriett Jones, 20 Albion Hill, Ramsgate, 1905.

Refers to various Indentures giving details of previous owners and terms of Lease. E.g. 19th November 1883 between William Ambrose Tyssen Amerherst, MP of Didlington Hall, Norfolk, Robert Goodall of 1 Evering Road, Stoke Newington, Middlesex, Builder, Harriett Jones wife of William Henry Jones of 30 Huntingdon Street, Kingsland Road, Middlesex, Gas Fitter.

20th January 1898 Will of Harriett Jones residing at the Five Bells Inn, Hoo, Kent. Henry Arthur Lucy, 3 Brooke Road, Stoke Newington, Jeweller’s Assistant named as Executor.

3rd March 1904 Codicil to Will of Harriett confirms Henry Arthur Lucy of 20 Albion Hill, Ramsgate as Executor.

8th May 1904 Harriet died at 20 Albion Hill, Ramsgate. The 1901 census shows Henry and his wife, Eliza Sophia Jones and children living at 24 Carlton Gardens, Herne Bay. He died in 1908.

"Here lyeth Sir George Vernon knight deceased ye 31st day of August Anno 1565 and Dame Margaret his wife daughter of Sir Gilbert Taylesboys deceased ye ....daye of ....156 and also Dame Maude his wyffe daughter of Sir Ralph Langford, deceased the ....daye of ....Anno ....whose souls God pardon"

Sir George "King of the peak" Vernon 1503 -1561 son of Richard Vernon of Haddon and Margaret Dymoke www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/2219918945/ (He is on their tomb www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/2220719220/ ) His mother Margaret was the daughter of Sir Robert Dymoke of Scrivelsby and Anne Sparrow www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/8125490008/ - she m2 William Coffin; m3 Sir Richard Manners son of George Manners, 11th Baron Ros of Helmsley 1513) & Anne St. Leger flic.kr/p/ebUaDY

The Vernon family was established at Haddon by the 14c and its members were to attain prominence both locally and at court during the 15c. Following the early death of his father George Vernon's wardship, and the custody of his lands in Westmorland, were granted in April 1522 to Cardinal Wolsey, Sir William Tyrwhitt, Lady Elizabeth Tailboys and her son Gilbert, and he was married to one of the Tailboys daughters Margaret; but it was his uncle Sir John Vernon who administered the bulk of his inheritance and advised him during his early years ‘in all his causes and his great affairs’. After Oxford and a spell at Grays Inn, George followed his uncle, then serving as a councillor in the Marches, and remained in the elder man's service until his death early in 1545. It was during these years that Vernon had his only experience of the Commons. In possession since 1536 of wide lands centred on Nether Haddon and Bakewell in the hundred of High Peak, and a justice of the peace of more than 3 years’ standing, he could expect to follow those of his forbears who had sat for the shire; Made a knight at Edward VI's coronation, George was one of those claimed by Sir William Paget to have been included in the first, but not the second, list of those whom Henry VIII had intended to create barons. In the event he was never even raised to the quorum of the commission or pricked sheriff; the fact that he was nominated for the office nine times between 1543 and 1552 implies that he was 'persona non grata', although on what ground it is impossible to say. He was one of the 3 Derbyshire gentlemen who refused to comply with Mary Tudor's demand for a forced loan of £100 in 1557, and although the receiver, Sir John Porte, solicited Francis Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury's help, it is unknown whether or not they ultimately contributed. In 1564 Bishop Bentham, an ardent reformer, rated George ‘a great justice [in] religion as in all other things’, but he died before he could be transferred to the quorum. Renowned ‘for his magnificence ... for his kind reception of all good men, and his hospitality’, he was dubbed the ‘King of the Peak’.

He was, however, heavy-handed in discipline (he is known to have had local men hanged without trial). Another that he ordered a toll-bar keeper to be hanged in a field near Ashford Bar for murder. The place is known to this day as Galley or Gallows Acre field. It was Sir George who secured the transfer of the manor at Haddon from his family to the Manners.

He m1 Margaret daughter of Sir Gilbert Tailboys and Margaret Gascoigne, widow of Philip Bullock

Children

1. Margaret www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/2220628830/ m Sir Thomas Stanley flic.kr/p/4oeizU of Tong

2. Dorothy m Sir John Manners www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/3528KA

He m2 Maud daughter of Ralph Longford 1544 of Longford Derbys & Dorothy flic.kr/p/6xfByq daughter of Anthony FitzHerbert of Norbury by 2nd wife Matilda Cotton flic.kr/p/2kyiD2m who m2 Sir John Porte of Etwall flic.kr/p/6xfzyQ

(Her sister Elizabeth m Sir Humphrey Dethick at Hartshorne www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/jHF9XQ

Her only brother was Sir Nicholas Longford 1610 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/Bx0y53 the last male of their family branch.

Sir George died without male heirs and his estates were divided between his 2 daughters Margaret having Tong, Dorothy having Haddon

By his will of 18 Aug. 1565 he bequeathed six Derbyshire manors and two in Staffordshire to his wife for life. His executors were to take the profits of his manor of Kibblestone, in Staffordshire, and two Cheshire manors for 16 years after his decease to pay his debts, funeral expenses and the fulfilment of his will, which included among numerous bequests the provision of one gold chain worth £20 to his godson, Gilbert Talbot†, the future Earl of Shrewsbury, ‘as a remembrance of my good will towards him’. His wife, his son-in-law John Manners, his brother-in-law Nicholas Longford and his ‘loving neighbours and faithful friends’ Thomas Sutton and Richard Wennesley† were each to receive £20 for their services as executors, while his ‘right worshipful friends’ (Sir) John Zouche II and (Sir) Francis Leke were each to have a horse.

His widow Maud m2 Francis Hastings 1610 flic.kr/p/2k8CAXM youngest son of Sir Francis Hastings 2nd. Earl of Huntingdon and Catherine Pole of Ashby de la Zouch flic.kr/p/2k8Rd75

There are 3 female figures on the side of the tomb supporting coats of arms: One is definitely Dorothy Vernon Manners: The others could represent her son (Manners) & daughter in law (Pierrepont) who may have erected the tomb www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/63cy7w

- Church of All Saints, Bakewell, Derbyshire

www.tudorplace.com.ar/Bios/RichardManners.htm

THE DUKEDOM OF MANCHESTER WAS CREATED ON APRIL 13TH 1719, BY KING GEORGE I GREAT BRITAIN.

GOD MANCHESTER

MANCHESTER. EARLS AND DUKES OF MANCHESTER

The Manchester title, in the English peerage, belongs to a branch of the family of Montagu (q.v.).

The first earl was HENRY Morrnov (c. 1363-1642), grandson of Sir Edward Montagu, chief justice of the king's bench 1539-1545, who was named by King Henry VIII. one of the executors of his will, and governor to his son, Edward VI. Sir Henry Montagu, who was born at Boughton, Northamptonshire, about 1563, was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, and, having been called to the bar,was elected recorder of London in 1603, and in 1616 was made chief justice of the king's bench, in which office it fell to him to pass sentence on Sir Walter Raleigh in October 1618. In 1620 he was appointed lord high treasurer, being raised to the peerage as Baron Montagu of Kimbolton, Huntingdonsbire, and Viscount Mandeville. He became president of the council in 1621, in which office he was continued by Charles 1., who created him earl of Manchester1 in 1626. In 1628 he became lord privy seal, and in 1635 a commiasioner of the treasury. Although from the beginning of his public life in 1601, when he first entered parliament, Manchester had inclined to the popular side in politics, he managed to retain to the end the favour of the king. He was a judge of the Star Chamber, and one of the most trusted councillors of Charles I. His loyalty, ability and honesty were warmly praised by Clarendon. In conjunction with Coventry, the lord keeper, he pronounced an opinion in favour of the legality of ship-money in 1634. He died on the 7th of November 1642. Manchester was

married three times. One of his sons by his third wife wasfathcr of Charles Montagu, created earl of Halifax in 1699

Euwluw MoNncU, and ear] of Manchester (16o2-1671),eldest son of the rst earl by his first wife, Catherine Spencer, granddaughter of Sir John Spencer of Althorpe, was born in 160:, and was educated at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. He was member of parliament for Huntingdonshire 1623-1626, and in the latter year was raised to the peerage in his father's lifetime as Baron Montagu of Kimbolton, but was known generally by his courtesy title of Viscount Mandeville. ‘His first wife, who was related to the duke of Buckingham, having died in 1625 after two years of marriage, Mandeville married in 1626 Anne, daughter of the and earl of Warwick. The influence of his father-in-lnw, who was afterwards admiral on the side‘ of the parliament, drew Mandeville to the popular side in the questions in dispute with the crown, and at the beginning of the Long Parliament he was one of the recognized leaders of the popular party in the upper House, his name being joined with those of the five members of the House of Commons impeached by the king in 1642. At the outbreak of the Civil War, having succeeded his father in the earldom in November 1642, Manchester commanded a regiment in the army of the earl of Essex, and in August 1643 he was appointed major-general of the parliamentary forces in the eastern counties, with Cromwell as his second in command. Having become a member of the “ committee of both kingdoms " in 1644, he was in supreme command at Marston Moor (july 1, 1644); but in the subsequent operations his lack of energy brought him into disagreement with Cromwell, and in November 1644 he strongly expressed his disapproval of continuing the war (see Cnotrwztt, 01.1v12n). Cromwell brought the shortcomin'gs of Manchester before parliament in the autumn of 1644; and early‘ in the following year, anticipating the self-denying ordinance, Manchester resigned his command. He took a leading part in the frequent negotiations for an arrangement with Charles, was custodian with Lcnthall of the great seal 1646-1648, and frequently presided in the House of Lords. He opposed the trial of the king, and retired from public life during the Commonwealth; but after the Restoration, which he actively assisted, he was loaded with honoursby CharlesII. In 1667 he was madea general, and hedicd on the 5th of May 1671. Manchester was madea KG. in 1661, and became F.R.S. in 1667. Men of such divergent sympathies as Baxter, Bumet and Clarendon agreed in describing Manchester as a lovable and virtuous man, who loved peace and moderation both in politics and religion. He was five times married, leaving children by two of his wives, and was succeeded in the title by his eldest son, Robert, 3rd earl of Manchester (1634-1683).

Sec Lord Clarendon, Hirlory of the Rebellion and Civil War: in England (7 vols., Oxford, 1839) and Li :0 Clarendon (Oxford, 1827); S. R. Gardiner, History 0] the Great iei Wm, 1642-1649. (4 vols, London, 1886-1891); The quarrel between Manchester and Oliver Cromwell , Camden Soc., NS. 12 (Lon on. 1875); Sir Philip Warwick, Memoir: of the Reign of Charles 1. (London, 1701). '

CHARLES MONTAGU), 1st duke of Manchester (c. 1656-1721), son of Robert, 3rd earl of Manchester, was educated at- Trinity College, Cambridge, and succeeded to his father's earldom in 1683. Warmly sympathizing with the Whig revolution of 1688, he attended William and Mary at their coronation, fought under

William at the Boyne, became a privy councillor in 1698, and‘

held various important diplomatic posts between that date and 1714, when he received an appointment in the household of George 1., by whom on the 28th of April 1719 he was created duke of Manchester. He died on the 20th of January 1722, and was succeeded successively in the dukedom by his two sons, William 2nd duke of Manchester (1700-1731)), and Robert 3rd duke (c. 1710-1762),who was vice-Chamberlain to Queen Caroline, wife of George II.

GEORGE MONTAGU, 4th duke of Manchester (1737-1788), was the son of Robert, the 3rd duke. He was a supporter of Lord Rockingham, and an active opponent in the House of Lords of Lord North's American policy. In the Rockingham ministry

of 1782 Manchester became lord chamberlain, He died on

September 1788.

Whilliam Montagu Manchester, The 5th Duke of Manchester (1768-1843), second son of the preceding, was educated at Harrow, and having become a colonel in the army in 1794, was appointed governor of Jamaica. in r808. Here he remained, except for a visit to England (18rr—18t3) till 1827, administering the colony with ability in a period of considerable difliculty, and doing much to prepare the way for emancipation of the slaves. From 1827 to 1830 he was the longest standing Governor of Jamaica, And postmaster-general in the cabinet of the duke of Wellington, and died in Rome on the 18th of March 1843. His wife was Susan, daughter of the 4th duke of Gordon. He was succeeded by his son George, 6th duke (woo—1855), a captain in the navy; whose son William Drogo, 7th duke (1823-:890), married Louise, daughter of the Comte d’Alten of Hanover, who after his death married Spencer Cavendish, 8th duke of Devonshire. William was succeeded by his son George Victor Drogo, 8th duke of Manchester (r853-1892), on whose death the title devolved on his son, William Angus Drogo, 9th duke of Manchester (b.1877). (R. J. M.)

Huntingdon gives its name to a celebrated cheese that variety is now made exclusively in the counties of Lincoln and Leicester; and dairy farming is not now much followed. The milk is now chiefly used for rearing calves. Large numbers of cattle are fattened in the field or the fold-yard, and are sold when rising three years old. They are mostly of the shorthorn breed, large numbers of Irish shorthorns being wintered in the fens. Where there are no upland pastures the farmer usually purchases cattle in the autumn and sells them in the spring. The number of horses in 1879 was 11,057, or an average of 4.2 to every 100 acres under cultivation, as compared with 4.5 for England and 4.1 for the United Kingdom. Of these the number used solely for agricultural purposes was 7583. Most of the farmers breed cart-horses, and the large farmers often rear weight-carrying hunters. The number of sheep in 1879 was 157,790, or an average of 75.3 to every 100 acres under cultivation, as compared with the same average for England and 68.0 for the United Kingdom. Great improvement in the breed has lately taken place, Leicesters and Lincolns being most common; they usually attain eat weights at an early age. Lambs are occasions 1y sold at weaning time, but more frequently they are kept through the winter on the grass lands, being fed also on mangolds and other roots, with an addition of cake and corn. The number of pigs in 1879 was 19 990, or an average of 9.5 toevery 100 acres under cultivation, as compared with 7.2 for England and 6.7 for the United Kingdom. They include Berkshire, Suffolk, and Neapolitan breeds and a number of crosses. Many after having gleane the stubbles are fattened on whey and various preparations of inferior barley; but breeding is also extensively practiced.

According to the owners of lands returned for 1873 the land was divided among 3903 roprietors, holding land the gross annual value of wliich was £444,890. Of the owners 45% per cent. possessed lam than 1 acre, and the average value all over was £1, 19s. 42d. per acre. There were 13 proprietors holding upwards of 3000 acres, viz., Edward Fellowes 15,629; duke of .Manchester, 13,835' William Wells, 5792; mar11;“ of Huntly, 5711 ; iHon. G. W. Fitzwilliam, 5202;

rd Chesham, 3787; earl of Ca sfort, 3654; Ecclesiastical Commissioners, 3559 ; olonel Duncombe, 3407; W. Duberley, 3224; earl of Sandwich, 3219; G. D. Newton, 3209; Richard H. Hussey, 3135.