Tatton Sykes (other)
Tatton Sykes or Sir Tatton Sykes may refer to: People * Sir Tatton Sykes, 4th Baronet, (1772–1863), English landowner and stock breeder * Sir Tatton Sykes, 5th Baronet, (1826–1913), English landowner, racehorse breeder and eccentric Other uses * Sir Tatton Sykes (horse) Sir Tatton Sykes (1843–1860), who also raced under the name Tibthorpe, was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. In a career that lasted from spring 1846 to summer 1848 he ran eleven times and won four races. As a three-year-old in 18 ...

Sir Tatton Sykes, 4th Baronet
Sir Tatton Sykes, 4th Baronet (1772–1863) was an English landowner and stock breeder, known as a patron of horse racing. Life A younger brother of Sir Mark Masterman Sykes, he was educated from 1784 at Westminster School. Matriculating at Brasenose College, Oxford, on 10 May 1788, he spent several terms there. For some years he was an articled clerk to Atkinson & Farrar, attorneys in Lincoln's Inn Fields; and then was employed for a period in a banking-house in Kingston upon Hull. Sheep farmer In 1803 Sykes began sheep farming and breeding by purchasing ten pure Bakewells from Mr. William Sanday's flock at Holme Pierrepoint. These sheep he kept at Barton, near Malton, where he soon became a ram-letter. At one of Robert Colling's sales he gave 156 guineas for the shearling Ajax. Until nearly eighty he took an annual June ride into the midlands to attend Burgess's, Buckley's, and Stone's sales of stock. In September 1861 he held his own fifty-eighth and last annual sale of sheep. ...
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Sir Tatton Sykes, 5th Baronet
Sir Tatton Sykes, 5th Baronet (13 March 1826 – 4 May 1913) was an English landowner, racehorse breeder, church-builder and eccentric. ''Includes substantial section on 5th baronet'' He was the elder son of Sir Tatton Sykes, 4th Baronet and Mary Ann Foulis, and succeeded to the Sykes baronetcy on his father's death in 1863. His brother was the Conservative MP Christopher Sykes. He lived at Sledmere, near York and served as High Sheriff of Yorkshire for 1869–70. On 3 August 1874, at the age of 48, he married Christina Anne Jessica Cavendish-Bentinck, daughter of George Augustus Frederick Cavendish-Bentinck and Prudentia Penelope Leslie. His wife was 30 years younger than him and it was not a happy marriage. The couple eventually separated, with Sir Tatton disowning his wife's future debts. Sykes died in May 1913 at age 87, and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son Mark Mark may refer to: Currency * Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark, the currency of Bosnia a ...
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