Dilhorne Hall located in

Dilhorne Dilhorne is an ancient parish and village in Staffordshire, three miles from Cheadle and six miles from Stoke-on-Trent. The village is within the Staffordshire Moorlands area. Historically the village has been in the Parish of Dilhorne and t ...

Staffordshire Staffordshire (; postal abbreviation Staffs.) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. It borders Cheshire to the northwest, Derbyshire and Leicestershire to the east, Warwickshire to the southeast, the West Midlands Cou ...

, England, was the ancestral home of the Buller family. Former Gate House For Dilhorne Hall - geograph

History

The Hall occupied an area of approximately four acres but was demolished in the 1920s. Dilhorne Hall was rebuilt in about 1830 by the Buller family. It succeeded a 17th-century house had been the home of Copwood Hollins (who died in 1705) and, in the later 18th century, John Holliday. In the early 1980s Dilhorne Recreational Institute had been built on the site of the demolished Hall. The grounds of the former hall is now a park, playground and crown green bowling club. It is also the site of Dilhorne Village Hall, a venue for events both private and organised by the village hall committee as a self funding charity. Classes, such as Yoga, Salsa and Art are also run on a regular basis. The old gate house to Dilhorne Hall still stands at the entrance to the park and has been renovated to a private house.

Buller Family

The Buller family were noted in the legal profession in London during the 19th century. The Baronetcy of Dilhorne in the County of Stafford was created in the

Baronetage of the United Kingdom Baronets are a rank in the British aristocracy. The current Baronetage of the United Kingdom has replaced the earlier but existing Baronetages of England, Nova Scotia, Ireland, and Great Britain. Baronetage of England (1611–1705) James I of E ...

on 20 January 1866 for Edward Manningham-Buller. In 1962

Reginald Manningham-Buller Reginald Edward Manningham-Buller, 1st Viscount Dilhorne, (1 August 1905 – 7 September 1980), known as Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller, Bt, from 1954 to 1962 and as The Lord Dilhorne from 1962 to 1964, was an English lawyer and Conservative pol ...

, the fourth

Baronet A baronet ( or ; abbreviated Bart or Bt) or the female equivalent, a baronetess (, , or ; abbreviation Btss), is the holder of a baronetcy, a hereditary title awarded by the British Crown. The title of baronet is mentioned as early as the 14th ...

of Dilhorne, who did not inherit the Dilhorne estate, took the title Baron Dilhorne, of

Towcester Towcester ( ) is an affluent market town in Northamptonshire, England. It currently lies in West Northamptonshire but was the former administrative headquarters of the South Northamptonshire district council. Towcester is one of the oldest ...

in the County of Northampton. He was subsequently made a Viscount. The former head of the Security Service (MI5)

Eliza Manningham-Buller, Baroness Manningham-Buller Elizabeth Lydia Manningham-Buller, Baroness Manningham-Buller, (born 14 July 1948) is a retired British intelligence officer. She was Director General of MI5, the British internal Security Service, from October 2002 until her retirement in Apr ...

is his daughter.

References

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