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Atherton Hall, Leigh
Atherton Hall was a country house and estate in Atherton historically a part of Lancashire, England. The hall was built between 1723 and 1742 and demolished in 1824. Christopher Saxton's map shows there was a medieval deer park here in the time of Elizabeth I. History Atherton Hall replaced the moated Lodge Hall as the seat of the Athertons who had been lords of the manor of Atherton since the township emerged in the Middle Ages. In 1723, Richard Vernon Atherton, "Mad Richard", began building a new mansion to designs by William Wakefield at a cost of £63,000 (equivalent to £ in ), The hall's construction was described by Lunn as, "A testimony to his pride, vanity and insanity". It was unfinished at the time of Richard Atherton's death in 1726 and completed by his son-in-law Robert Gwillym in 1743. The hall's façade was 102 feet wide supported by Ionic fluted pillars and pilasters. Its Great Hall measured 36 feet by 45 feet. The hall is described in ''Vitruvius Britannic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atherton Hall 1823
Atherton may refer to: Places Australia * Atherton, Queensland, a town on the Atherton Tablelands of Far North Queensland * Atherton Tableland, a fertile plateau in Queensland * Shire of Atherton, a former local government area of Queensland on the Atherton Tableland ** Atherton Courthouse ** Atherton Performing Arts Theatre, former military depot and now theatre ** Atherton War Cemetery, built in 1942 ** Atherton War Memorial, memorial at Kennedy Highway Canada * Atherton, Ontario, a hamlet in Norfolk County, Ontario * Mount Atherton, a mountain in Yukon Malaysia * Ladang Atherton, part of the electoral district N.31 Bagan Pinang, Port Dickson United Kingdom * Atherton, Greater Manchester, town in Wigan district, historically in Lancashire, England ** Atherton (ward), electoral ward ** Atherton Hall, Leigh, country house and estate ** Atherton Urban District, local government district from 1863 until 1974 **Atherton High School, Greater Manchester, mixed secondary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Anthony Legh Keck
Colonel George Anthony Legh Keck (15 July 1774 – 4 September 1860), sometimes spelled Legh-Keck, was a British military officer, Tory politician and landowner who sat in the House of Commons representing the parliamentary constituency of Leicestershire from 1797 to 1831. Early life He was born at Stoughton Grange, Leicestershire, the only surviving son of Anthony James Keck, MP for Newton, and Elizabeth ( Legh), second daughter and co-heiress of Peter Legh (1706–1792), of Lyme Hall, Cheshire, whose wife, Elizabeth Atherton, inherited Bank Hall in Bretherton, Lancashire, which he renovated with help from the architect George Webster in 1832–33. Career Legh-Keck was returned to parliament five times as MP for Leicestershire between 1797 and 1831. Commissioned as an officer in the Leicestershire Yeomanry Cavalry in 1803, he later served as Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant of the regiment until his death in 1860. Legh-Keck, in a portrait from 1851, held a broad-toppe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tarleton
Tarleton is a village and civil parish in the West Lancashire district of Lancashire, England. It is situated approximately north-east of Liverpool and south-west of Preston. The parish includes the village of Mere Brow and the hamlets of Sollom and Holmes, and is an agricultural area. It had a population of 5,959 at the 2021 Census. Tarleton village, Holmes, and the villages of Hesketh Bank and Becconsall to the north form a single built-up area with a population of 8,755. History Tarleton is derived from the Old Norse ''Tharaldr'', a personal name and the Old English ''tun'', a farmstead or enclosure. The township was recorded as Tharilton in 1246 and subsequently Tarleton. Tarleton is mentioned in the Feet of Fines in 1298. A local family with the Tarleton name either was named or gave its name to the early settlement by the reign of Richard II. The manor of Tarleton was part of the Montbegon or Hornby fee and divided into two moieties: two ploughlands were gran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Powys, 5th Baron Lilford
John Powys, 5th Baron Lilford (12 January 1863 – 17 December 1945), was a British peer and cricketer. Biography Powys was born at Lilford Hall, Northamptonshire, the son of ornithologist Thomas Powys, 4th Baron Lilford, and his wife Emma Elizabeth Powys (née Brandling). He inherited the Lilford barony in 1896 upon the death of his father, along with the Lilford Hall, Bank Hall and Bewsey estates. Powys was educated at Harrow School, and graduated from Brasenose College, Oxford, in 1886. He was an officer in the 3rd (Militia) Battalion of the Sherwood Foresters (Derbyshire Regiment) until he resigned with the honorary rank of Major on 4 June 1902. On 29 July 1922, he was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Northamptonshire. Powys played cricket for Northamptonshire in 1911, making a single first-class appearance against the touring India national cricket team at the County Ground, Northampton. Family He married Milly Isabella Louisa Soltau-Symons, a daughter of George W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Oswald's Church, Winwick
St Oswald's Church, is in the village of Winwick, Cheshire, Winwick, Cheshire, England. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I Listed building#England and Wales, listed building. It is an active Anglican parish church in the Anglican Diocese of Liverpool, diocese of Liverpool, the archdeaconry of Warrington and the deanery of Winwick. History A church at Winwick is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086. The earliest parts of the present church are the bases of the north Arcade (architecture), arcade which date from the early 13th century, and the walls of the Legh Chapel and the organ chamber which are dated 1330. The west tower was built in 1358, and the walls and north arcade of the nave (except for the Legh Chapel and the organ chamber) date from 1580. Much damage was done to the church in 1648 when Oliver Cromwell stationed his troops in the church after the Battle of Winwick, Battle of Red Bank. The south porch was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chowbent Chapel
Chowbent Chapel is an active Unitarianism, Unitarian place of worship in Atherton, Greater Manchester, Atherton, Greater Manchester, England. It was built in 1721 and is the oldest place of worship in the town. It is a member of the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches, the umbrella organisation for British Unitarians. The chapel was granted Grade II* Listed building, Listed status in 1966. History The origins of Chowbent Chapel are a consequence of events that happened in 1715. The first chapel in Atherton, a chapel of ease to St Mary the Virgin's Church, Leigh, Leigh Parish Church was a "small brick edifice", dedicated to Church of St John the Baptist, Atherton, St. John the Baptist at Chowbent. It was built in 1645 "on land owned and loaned by “Ye Lord of Atherton", John Atherton, a supporter of religious dissent. Sometimes referred to as the ''Old Bent Chapel'', it was not consecrated and used by a Presbyterian congregation. The chapel was also used b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bewsey
Bewsey and Whitecross is a ward to the west of the town centre of Warrington (and includes much of the town centre), in the Warrington Warrington () is an industrial town in the Borough of Warrington, borough of the same name in Cheshire, England. The town sits on the banks of the River Mersey and was Historic counties of England, historically part of Lancashire. It is east o ... district, in the ceremonial county of Lancashire, England. The town's General Hospital is within the ward. The area is served by the 16/16A bus route from Dallam to Warrington. Sankey Valley Park runs through Bewsey, there are community centres at Whitecross and Bewsey Park, and a community and health hub is to be built to serve the former council estates of Bewsey and Dallam. There are five primary schools, while the nearest high schools are Beamont Collegiate Academy in the Orford area, Great Sankey High School in Great Sankey, and St Gregory's RC High School. Demographics ''Note: Statisti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northamptonshire
Northamptonshire ( ; abbreviated Northants.) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England. It is bordered by Leicestershire, Rutland and Lincolnshire to the north, Cambridgeshire to the east, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire to the south and Warwickshire to the west. Northampton is the largest settlement and the county town. The county has an area of and a population of 747,622. The latter is concentrated in the centre of the county, which contains the county's largest towns: Northampton (249,093), Corby (75,571), Kettering (63,150), and Wellingborough (56,564). The northeast and southwest are rural. The county contains two local government Non-metropolitan district, districts, North Northamptonshire and West Northamptonshire, which are both Unitary authority, unitary authority areas. The Historic counties of England, historic county included the Soke of Peterborough. The county is characterised by low, undulating hills, p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lilford Hall
Lilford Hall is a Grade I listed Jacobean stately home in Northamptonshire in the United Kingdom. The 100-room house is located in the eastern part of the county, south of Oundle and north of Thrapston. History It was started in 1495 as a Tudor building, with a major Jacobean exterior extension added in 1635 and a Georgian interior adopted in the 1740s, having of floor area. The Hall was originally part of Lord Burghley's estate, then the Powys family ( Baron Lilford) from 1711 to 1990. Lilford Hall and the associated parkland of is specifically located along the River Nene for around a mile, and north-west of the village of Lilford, part of the parish of Lilford-cum-Wigsthorpe and Thorpe Achurch. The land which was turned into the parkland was mentioned in the Domesday Book, and owned by King David I of Scotland at that time. The Manor of Lilford was acquired in 1473 by William Browne a wealthy wool merchant and landowner from Stamford, from the estate of Baron Welles who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Powys, 3rd Baron Lilford
Thomas Atherton Powys, 3rd Baron Lilford (2 December 1801 – 15 March 1861), was a British peer and Whig politician. Lilford was the son of Thomas Powys, 2nd Baron Lilford, and Henrietta Maria Atherton of Atherton Hall. He succeeded his father as Baron Lilford in 1825. From 1826 to 1827 he went on a Grand Tour accompanied by Thomas Henry Lister.They visited Weimar and Jena in June 1826, followed by Leipzig and Dresden. In November they visited Italy, that included a stay in Rome of over three months. Lister returned to England in June 1827 while Lord Lilford remained on at Naples. In 1837 he was appointed a Lord-in-waiting (government whip in the House of Lords) in the Whig administration of Lord Melbourne, a post he held until the government fell in August 1841. He never returned to office. Lord Lilford married Mary Elizabeth Fox, daughter of Henry Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland, and Lady Holland, in 1830, and had ten children.Tim Powys-Lybbe (2011) "Thomas Atherton Po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baron Lilford
Baron Lilford, of Lilford in the County of Northampton, is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was created in 1797 for Thomas Powys, who had previously represented Northamptonshire in the House of Commons. His grandson, the third Baron, served as a Lord-in-waiting (government whip) from 1837 to 1841 in the Whig administration of Lord Melbourne. He was succeeded by his son, the fourth Baron, an ornithologist. On the death of his younger son, the sixth Baron (who succeeded his elder brother), in 1949, the line of the third Baron failed. The late Baron was succeeded by his second cousin twice removed, the seventh Baron. He was the great-great-grandson of Robert Vernon Powys, second son of the second Baron. , the title is held by his only son Mark Powys, the eighth Baron, who succeeded in 2005. The family seat from 1711 until the 1990s was Lilford Hall in Northamptonshire. The current Baron Lilford retains ownership of land in Jersey, South Africa and West Lancashire, inc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pitt The Younger
William Pitt (28 May 1759 – 23 January 1806) was a British statesman who served as the last prime minister of Great Britain from 1783 until the Acts of Union 1800, and then first prime minister of the United Kingdom from January 1801. He left office in March 1801, but served as prime minister again from 1804 until his death in 1806. He was also Chancellor of the Exchequer for all of his time as prime minister. He is known as "Pitt the Younger" to distinguish him from his father, William Pitt the Elder, who had also previously served as prime minister. Pitt's prime ministerial tenure, which came during the reign of King George III, was dominated by major political events in Europe, including the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. Pitt, although often referred to as a Tory, or "new Tory", called himself an "independent Whig" and was generally opposed to the development of a strict partisan political system. Pitt was regarded as an outstanding administrator who worked fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
