Langar Hall is a Grade II listed house, now a hotel, next to the church in
Langar, Nottinghamshire
Langar is an English village in the Vale of Belvoir, about four miles (6.4 km) south of Bingham, in the Rushcliffe borough of Nottinghamshire. The civil parish of Langar cum Barnstone had a population of 980 at the 2011 Census. This was estim ...
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The current building dates back to the 18th century, but parts are "probably a survival of an earlier building".
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History
The Howes came into possession of Langar Hall and its estates in 1677 through the marriage of John Grobham Howe to Annabella, one of the daughters of Emanuel Scrope, 1st Earl of Sunderland
Emanuel Scrope, 1st Earl of Sunderland, 11th Baron Scrope of Bolton (1 August 1584 – 30 May 1630) was an English nobleman. He was Lord President of the King's Council in the North.
Family
He was the only child of Thomas Scrope, 10th Baron Scr ...
and Martha Jones. The original Norman stone castle was replaced by a three-storey stone mansion by John Howe. He died at the age of about 54 and was buried at Langar.[ History of Parliament Online - Howe, John Grobham]
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Scrope Howe succeeded his father to the estate. He was MP for Nottingham from 1673 to 1698, Groom of the Bedchamber to William III and Surveyor General of the Roads. He was created Baron Glenawley and Viscount Howe of Langar in 1701. He died in 1712 and was buried in Langar Church.[
]Emanuel Howe, 2nd Viscount Howe
Emanuel Scrope Howe, 2nd Viscount Howe (c. 1700 – 29 March 1735) of Langar Hall, Nottinghamshire, was a British politician and colonial administrator.
Life
His father was Scrope Howe, a Whig Member of Parliament from whom he inherited the ...
married Mary Sophia Charlotte von Kielmansegg, the mistress of George I[ and , daughter of Johann Adolf von Kielmansegg and Sophia von Kielmansegg, Countess of Darlington, illegitimate daughter of ]Ernest Augustus, Elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg
Ernest Augustus (german: Ernst August; 20 November 1629 – 23 January 1698) was ruler of the Principality of Lüneburg from 1658 and of the Principality of Calenberg from 1679 until his death, and father of George I of Great Britain. He was app ...
, and his mistress Clara Elisabeth von Platen
Clara Elisabeth, Countess von Platen-Hallermund (14 January 1648 — 30 January 1700, Schloss Monplaisir, in what is now the Von-Alten-Garten in Hannover) was a German noblewoman, most notable as the mistress of Ernest Augustus (Elector of Hanov ...
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George Howe, 3rd Viscount Howe
George Augustus Howe, 3rd Viscount Howe (c. 1725 – 6 July 1758) was a career officer and a brigadier general in the British Army. He was described by James Wolfe as "the best officer in the British Army". He was killed in the French and In ...
served as a brigadier in the American war and was killed at the Battle of Carillon
The Battle of Carillon, also known as the 1758 Battle of Ticonderoga, Chartrand (2000), p. 57 was fought on July 8, 1758, during the French and Indian War (which was part of the global Seven Years' War). It was fought near Fort Carillon (now ...
in 1758.[
]Richard Howe
Admiral of the Fleet Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe, (8 March 1726 – 5 August 1799) was a British naval officer. After serving throughout the War of the Austrian Succession, he gained a reputation for his role in amphibious operations a ...
(1726-1799) then succeeded to the Viscountcy. He served as a midshipman at the age of 14 and at 20 was given command of a sloop. He married in 1738 when he returned home to take possession of his estates. In 1770 he proceeded to the Mediterranean with the rank of Rear-Admiral. After the relief of Gibraltar he was made First Lord of the Admiralty
The First Lord of the Admiralty, or formally the Office of the First Lord of the Admiralty, was the political head of the English and later British Royal Navy. He was the government's senior adviser on all naval affairs, responsible for the di ...
and elevated to an Earl. He was also received the Order of the Garter in 1797. He died in 1799 and was buried in the family vault at Langar.[
In the second decade of the 19th century, the house burned down and was replaced with the present smaller one in plain Georgian design. The Howe connection with Langar ended in 1818 when the hall was sold to John Wright Esq.,a Nottingham banker and part-owner of the ]Butterley Company
The Butterley Company was an English manufacturing firm founded as Benjamin Outram and Company in 1790. Its subsidiaries existed until 2009.
Origins
This area of Derbyshire had been known for its outcrops of iron ore which had been exploited at ...
at Ripley, Derbyshire. In 1830, John Wright surrendered his interest in the Butterley Company to his 24 year old son, Francis Wright.
It was then let until it was purchased by Annie Bayley, wife of Thomas Bayley, member of Parliament for Chesterfield. It then passed in turn to Revd. Fr. Bayley and then Mr. and Mrs. Huskinson, another branch of the Bayley family. By 1937 the hall and park were the property of Geoffrey Huskinson.[
It was turned into a hotel from a family home by Geoffrey Huskinson's daughter, Imogen Skirving (1937–2016).] who inherited it from her father in 1968 and at that time valued at £11,000. Guests at Langar Hall have included Keira Knightley
Keira Christina Righton (; née Knightley, born 26 March 1985) is an English actress. Known for her work in both independent films and blockbusters, particularly period dramas, she has received several accolades, including nominations for ...
, Henry Blofeld
Henry Calthorpe Blofeld, OBE (born 23 September 1939) nicknamed Blowers by Brian Johnston, is an English retired sports journalist, broadcaster and amateur ornithologist best known as a cricket commentator for ''Test Match Special'' on BBC Ra ...
, and the Archbishop of Canterbury, and former Labour leader Ed Miliband
Edward Samuel "Ed" Miliband (born 24 December 1969) is a British politician serving as Shadow Secretary of State for Climate Change and Net Zero since 2021. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Doncaster North since 2005. Miliban ...
married Justine Thornton there in 2011.
References
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Grade II listed buildings in Nottinghamshire
Grade II listed houses
Country houses in Nottinghamshire