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Sancton ''For people with the surname, see Sancton (surname).'' Sancton is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately south-east of the market town of Market Weighton on the A1034 road. The civil ...
, near
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, is a Grade I listed Georgian country mansion in the
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,
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, set in an estate of . Located on the estate is the village of
Sancton ''For people with the surname, see Sancton (surname).'' Sancton is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately south-east of the market town of Market Weighton on the A1034 road. The civil ...
and the vestigial remains of the ancient hamlet of Houghton. It was built by Philip Langdale (d. 1815) to the designs of Thomas Atkinson and underwent minor remodelling in 1960 by Francis Johnson. It is built in pink brick with stone dressing and slate roof, with a three-storey, 5-bay main block. The Roman Catholic parish of Market Weighton was founded from the domestic chapel of the Langdale family at Houghton Hall. The chapel, built in 1829, was demolished in 1957. The Vale of York Polo Club was formerly located on the Houghton Hall Estate.


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de Houghton

Sir Thomas de Houghton was the last in the male line of his family seated at the manor. His daughter and heiress, Helen de Houghton, brought the manor to her husband Patrick II de Langdale.


Langdale

The de Langdale family originated at the manor of Langdale in the
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of Pickering, Yorkshire, which they held as their seat from before the reign of King John (1199–1216). Patrick II de Langdale was the son and heir of Patrick I de Langdale (fl. temp. Edward II) by his wife Amanda de Elton, daughter and heiress of Lawrence de Elton. The estate at Houghton descended through the senior branch of the Langdale family from Anthony Langdale until a lack of male succession caused it to pass sideways to a cousin Peter Langdale (d. 1617) of Pighill Hall, Molescroft, near
Beverley Beverley is a market town and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is located north-west of Hull city centre. At the 2021 census the built-up area of the town had a population of 30,930, and the smaller civil parish had ...
in Yorkshire, which he had purchased in 1606. His son was
Marmaduke Langdale, 1st Baron Langdale of Holme Marmaduke Langdale, 1st Baron Langdale ( – 5 August 1661) was an English landowner and soldier who fought with the Royalists during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. An only child who inherited large estates, he served in the 1620 to 1622 Pala ...
, whose chief seat was nearby Holme Hall in the parish of
Holme-on-Spalding-Moor Holme-on-Spalding-Moor (also known as Holme-upon-Spalding-Moor) is a large village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately north-east of Howden and south-west of Market Weighton. It lies on the ...
, Yorkshire. Marmaduke was knighted by King
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in 1628, appointed
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for 1639–40 and became a devoted
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during the
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, during which he fought at the
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and at
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. On the defeat of the royalist cause, he fled to the continent, where he contacted the future King Charles II and was made by him 1st
Baron Langdale Baron Langdale was a title that was created twice in British history. The first creation came in the Peerage of England on 4 February 1658 when the prominent royalist commander of the English Civil War, Sir Marmaduke Langdale, was made by Baro ...
"of Holme" in 1658. He afterwards converted to Catholicism. He died in August 1661 at Holme and was buried in All Saints Church, Sancton, where his monument survives along with others to members of the Langdale family. The title became extinct on the death of
Marmaduke Langdale, 5th Baron Langdale ''Marmaduke'' is a newspaper comic strip revolving around the Winslow family and their Great Dane, Marmaduke, drawn by Brad Anderson from November 15, 1954 to 2015. Publication history The strip was created by writer Phil Leeming and artist ...
(d. 1778), who left no male progeny but only two daughters. The house and 1000 acres of land descended to Philip Langdale (d. 1815), the senior male member of the Langdale family, who built the present house in about 1765. The family continued as Catholic
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s, and a year after the house was built, a mission was set up there for a Catholic priest.


Stourton (Langdale)

On the death of Philip Langdale in 1815, the estate passed under his will to his relative, the Hon.
Charles Langdale Charles Langdale (formerly Stourton); 19 September 1787 – 1 December 1868) was a British politician and biographer. He served as Whig Member of Parliament, wrote the memoirs of Maria Fitzherbert, and was a leading Roman Catholic figure durin ...
(1787–1868), born the Hon. Charles ''Stourton'', MP and campaigner for Catholic Emancipation, who assumed by royal licence the surname and arms of Langdale in accordance with the terms of the bequest. He was the fourth son of Charles Stourton, 17th Baron Stourton (1752–1816) (whose mother Winifred Howard (d. 1753) (a daughter and co-heiress of Philip Howard (1687/8–1749/50) of
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in Norfolk) was a co-heiress (in her issue) of her uncles the
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and 9th
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, to the titles
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,
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, and many others) by his wife Mary Langdale, a daughter and co-heiress of
Marmaduke Langdale, 5th Baron Langdale ''Marmaduke'' is a newspaper comic strip revolving around the Winslow family and their Great Dane, Marmaduke, drawn by Brad Anderson from November 15, 1954 to 2015. Publication history The strip was created by writer Phil Leeming and artist ...
(1771–1777). He expanded the estate and the house, to which he added in 1829 a classical Greek-style Roman Catholic chapel designed by
Joseph Ireland Joseph Ireland (1841) was an English architect who designed Roman Catholic Church buildings in the early nineteenth century. He specialized in Romanesque revival architecture and worked with Joseph John Scoles. Life Ireland was born into a Catho ...
. He was MP for
Beverley Beverley is a market town and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is located north-west of Hull city centre. At the 2021 census the built-up area of the town had a population of 30,930, and the smaller civil parish had ...
and
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. Philip died in 1868 and was succeeded by his eldest son, Charles Joseph Langdale (1822–1895), who had married an Irish heiress and chose to live in Ireland. After the couple both died in 1895, the estate was inherited successively by their eldest son, Henry Joseph Langdale (1853–1923), and their younger son Lieutenant-Colonel Philip Joseph Langdale (1863–1950), OBE, JP, DL. On Philip's death in 1950, Houghton passed to his eldest daughter Joyce Elizabeth Mary Langdale (1898 – June 1995), then the wife of
Henry FitzAlan-Howard, 2nd Viscount FitzAlan of Derwent Henry Edmund FitzAlan-Howard, 2nd Viscount FitzAlan of Derwent OBE (30 October 1883 – 17 May 1962), was a British peer. Biography FitzAlan-Howard was the only son of Edmund FitzAlan-Howard, 1st Viscount FitzAlan of Derwent, second infancy-sur ...
(1883–1962), from whom she was divorced in 1955 and re-married in 1956 to
Thomas Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 10th Earl Fitzwilliam William Thomas George Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 10th Earl Fitzwilliam Justice of the peace, JP (28 May 1904 – 21 September 1979), known as Tom, of Wentworth Woodhouse, near Rotherham, Yorkshire (the largest private residence in England) and of M ...
(1904–1979).Debrett's Peerage, 1968, pp.452, 453 Her second husband's home,
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, near
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, Yorkshire, is the largest private residence in England, and with his second seat of
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, Peterborough, the largest house in Cambridgeshire, also at her disposal, she probably felt little need to retain Houghton for her own use.


Watson

Joyce Langdale had no male progeny and gave Houghton to her nephew
Rupert Watson, 3rd Baron Manton Joseph Rupert Eric Robert Watson, 3rd Baron Manton, DL (22 January 1924 – 8 August 2003), of Houghton Hall in the parish of Sancton, Yorkshire, was a British soldier, landowner and racehorse owner who served as Senior Steward of the Jockey Club ...
(1924–2003), only son of her younger sister Alethea Alys Mary Pauline Langdale, wife of (George) Miles Watson, 2nd Baron Manton (1899–1968), of
Compton Verney Compton Verney is a parish and historic manor in the county of Warwickshire, England. The population taken at the 2011 census was 119. The surviving manor house is the Georgian mansion Compton Verney House. Descent of the manor The first ...
, Warwickshire, later of
Plumpton Place Plumpton Place is a Grade II* listed Elizabethan manor house in Plumpton, East Sussex, England. Description Plumpton Place looks onto the nearby north-facing escarpment of the South Downs, with Plumpton College (formerly Plumpton Agricultura ...
in Sussex. Rupert was the father of five children and was later senior steward of the
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. He succeeded his father as 3rd Baron Manton in 1968, and in 1980 was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Humberside. On his death in 2003, his title and the estate of Houghton passed to his eldest son, Miles Ronald Marcus Watson, 4th
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(b. 1958), an officer in the Life Guards and formerly a successful amateur jockey.


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