Henry Chandos Pole Gell (10 January 1829 – 31 October 1902) was a

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in 1886/7. He took the additional surname Gell when he inherited the Gell fortune in 1842.

Biography

Henry Chandos Pole was the second son of Edward Sacheverell Chandos Pole, of

Radbourne Hall Radbourne Hall is an 18th-century Georgian country house, the seat of the Chandos-Pole family, at Radbourne, Derbyshire. It is a Grade I listed building. History The Manor of Radbourne has been held by the Chandos family from the time of the ...

. In 1842, he took the arms and surname Gell when he succeeded to the estate at

Hopton Hall Hopton Hall is an 18th-century country house at Hopton, near Wirksworth, Derbyshire. It is a Grade II listed building. The Manor of Hopton, anciently the seat of the de Hopton family, was acquired by the Gell family in 1553 by Ralph Gell (1491� ...

. Gell was High Sheriff in 1866/7. For many years main residence was at Heverswood (south of

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) in Kent as he leased

to a relative. Gell took an active interest in agricultural development, and was a member of the council of the

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. A contemporary obituary states that Gell was ''″well known throughout the country by reason of the deep interest he took in agriculture... he maintained an excellent heard of

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s at Hopton, and was one of the first to perceive the importance of the

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.″'' Gell had five daughters with his first wife who died in 1868. He married the following year Teresa Charlotte Manningham-Buller, daughter of

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, of

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. They had a son, Harry Anthony Chandos-Pole-Gell (1872-1934), who became a

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and relinquished the surname Gell in the 1930s. Harry Chandos-Pole-Gell was married to Ada Ismay, the daughter of

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. Gell died at his residence Hopton Hall on 31 October 1902, and he was buried at Carsington.Metal tablet inside

St Mary's Church, Wirksworth St Mary the Virgin is a parish church in the Church of England in Wirksworth, Derbyshire. It is a Grade I listed building. The existing building dates mostly from the 13th–15th centuries, but notable survivals from the Anglo-Saxon period indic ...

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