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Hoar Cross Hall - a bit of history #11

Posted by Viv Wilson on 17th November 2019 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,first world war,second world war,christian community,Goshen,El Alamein,HRH Princess Alice,Earl of Dartmouth
...gram, 9th Viscount Irwin and Lord Ingram.  Temple Newsam in Yorkshire was their family seat and through the marriage the Meynell family inherited the Ingram estates in Lincolnshire.  When the Hall was built in 1871 it was actually modelled on a wing of the Temple Newsam house, which is why they look so similar.   In 1793, after buying the Hoar Cross estate from the Talbots, Hugo built a house which he used as an occasional hunting lodge.  He called it Old Hall and this was built around a small courtyard about half a mile away from where the Hall would later be built. Hugo and Elizabeth had six children, the eldest child also being called Hugo, as was usual...
 

Hoar Cross Hall - a bit of history #13

Posted by Viv Wilson on 7th September 2020 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,Quorn hunt,fox huntiing,william the conqueror,Florence,mediterranean,River Nile,British Empire
...gram, 9th Viscount Irwin and Lord Ingram. Temple Newsam in Yorkshire was their family seat and through the marriage the Meynell family inherited the Ingram estates in Lincolnshire. When the Hall was built in 1871 it was actually modelled on a wing of the Temple Newsam house, which is why they look so similar. In 1793, after buying the Hoar Cross estate from the Talbots, Hugo built a house which he used as an occasional hunting lodge. He called it Old Hall and this was built around a small courtyard about half a mile away from where the Hall would later be built. Hugo and Elizabeth had six children, the eldest child also being called Hugo, as was usual in those d...
 

Hoar Cross Hall - a bit of history #14

Posted by Viv Wilson on 1st August 2021 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,de Mesnil,william the conqueror,Emily Meynell,El Alamein,second world war,Downton Abbey,Bridgerton,River Nile
...gram, 9th Viscount Irwin and Lord Ingram. Temple Newsam in Yorkshire was their family seat and through the marriage the Meynell family inherited the Ingram estates in Lincolnshire. When the Hall was built in 1871 it was actually modelled on a wing of the Temple Newsam house, which is why they look so similar. In 1793, after buying the Hoar Cross estate from the Talbots, Hugo built a house which he used as an occasional hunting lodge. He called it Old Hall and this was built around a small courtyard about half a mile away from where the Hall would later be built. Hugo and Elizabeth had six children, the eldest child also being called Hugo, as was usual in those d...
 

Hoar Cross Hall - a bit of history #17

Posted by Viv Wilson on 5th August 2022 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,william the conqueror,christian community,BIshop of Portsmouth,Red Cross,second world war,first world war,George VI,Queen Mother,Queen Elizabeth
...gram, 9th Viscount Irwin and Lord Ingram. Temple Newsam in Yorkshire was their family seat and through the marriage the Meynell family inherited the Ingram estates in Lincolnshire. When the Hoar Cross Hall was built in 1871 it was actually modelled on a wing of the Temple Newsam house, which is why they look so similar. In 1793, after buying the Hoar Cross estate from the Talbots, Hugo built a house which he used as an occasional hunting lodge. He called it Old Hall and this was built around a small courtyard about half a mile away from where the Hall would later be built. Hugo and Elizabeth had six children, the eldest child also being called Hugo, as was usual...
 

Hoar Cross Hall - A bit of History #54

Posted by Viv Wilson on 12th May 2023 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,st james palace,first world war,second world war,military cross,Bishop of Portsmouth,Red Cross,church of the holy angels,mediterranean,the crown,downton abbey,my dad bought a mansion
...gram, 9th Viscount Irwin and Lord Ingram. Temple Newsam in Yorkshire was their family seat and through the marriage the Meynell family inherited the Ingram estates in Lincolnshire. When the Hall was built in 1871 it was actually modelled on a wing of the Temple Newsam house, which is why they look so similar. In 1793, after buying the Hoar Cross estate from the Talbots, Hugo built a house which he used as an occasional hunting lodge. He called it Old Hall and this was built around a small courtyard about half a mile away from where the Hall would later be built. Hugo and Elizabeth had six children, the eldest child also being called Hugo, as was usual in those d...
 

Temple Newsam and the Meynells

Posted by Viv Wilson on 15th August 2019 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | temple newsam,Meynell Ingram,Old Hall,hoar cross hall,Jacobean,Earl of Darnley,Mary Queen of Scots,Leeds,Capability Brown,hugo meynell,emily meynell
...TEMPLE NEWSAM AND THE MEYNELLS:     On 11th August 1863, Hugo Francis Meynell Ingram married the Hon. Emily Charlotte, daughter of Sir Charles Wood, Bart, afterwards 1st Viscount Halifax.  The Woods were an old gentry family, for many centuries respectable York merchants.  They were to turn grand upon the discovery of coal beneath their ancestral estates.  This was the great Barnsley field, with several hundred acres of Britain's deepest and finest coal.  Sir Charles Wood had a distinguished political career and they owned family seats at Garrowby, Pocklington, near York and Hickleton, near Doncaster.  They also owned a London house in Belgrave Square....
 
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