Arms of the Earls of Stamford - All Saints' church - Newtown Linford, Leicestershire
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A brass plaque to Catherine, widow of the 7th Earl of Stamford, bearing the arms of the Earls of Stamford, located in the chancel of All Saints' church, Newtown Linford.
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Location: East Midlands, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 04/11/2018
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A brass plaque to Catherine, widow of the 7th Earl of Stamford, bearing the The Grey-Booth arms as bourne by the 6th and 7th Earls of Stamford, located in the chancel of All Saints' church, Newtown Linford.
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"Lord Stamford and Warrington married twice, producing no children; firstly in 1848 to Elizabeth King Billage (daughter of a shoemaker at Cambridge ) and secondly in 1855 to Catherine Cox the daughter of Henry Cox Esq]]).
After inheriting his family's large estates at Enville in Staffordshire, Bradgate Park in Leicestershire and the Leicestershire estates including the village of Groby, Dunham Massey and Dunham Massey Hall in Cheshire, and Stalybridge in Lancashire, he commissioned the building of St Margaret's Church at Dunham Massey in 1851. Built in honor of his sister, Lady Margaret Milbank. The church was completed in 1855. He was patron of several advowsons in addition to lordships of manors.
Following his second marriage to Catherine Cox, the Earl commissioned the architect, Mr. M.J. Dain of Dain and Parsons, London, to design a hall for him to replace the old hunting lodge the Grey's used in the village of Groby, Leicestershire during the hunting season, and this hall was named Bradgate House built by a local builder namely Mr. Thomas Rudkin; Bradgate House was completed in 1856 and was also built in the Jacobean style it has been referred to as the Calendar House because it had 365 windows, 52 rooms, and 12 main chimneys. Groby. In 1860, twelve farms of his land at Bradgate were submerged to form Cropston Reservoir. In 1879, he donated 16 acres (65,000 m2) of his land at Stalybridge to the local council as a public park (Stamford Park) and sold further land for housing development.
On his death at Bradgate House in 1883, the earldom of Warrington (cr. 1796) became extinct. His other two titles passed to his third cousin once removed who was living in Cape Colony, The Revd Harry Grey, 8th Earl of Stamford.
He left his estates to his widow for life, who was then styled Dowager Countess of Stamford and Warrington, and on her death in 1905 they were divided. The Dunham Massey estate went with the earldom; the Leicestershire estates passed to his niece Mrs Arthur Duncombe (later Grey), and the Enville estate was inherited by the Dowager Countess's grandniece Catherine, wife of Sir Henry Foley Lambert. The land at Stalybridge was left equally between Mrs Duncombe and the Earl of Stamford and Warrington's niece and Lady Lambert the grand niece of Catherine, Countess of Stamford and Warrington, whose descendants (Deramore and Foley Grey respectively) settled its division in 1959. Mrs Duncombe sold the Leicestershire Estates in 1925, which included the village of Groby and also the Jacobean style hall the Earl of Stamford and Warrington commissioned at Groby and was completed in 1856, Bradgate House was demolished in 1926, only the magnificent stable block survives albeit in a ruinous and dilapidated condition. It was built on a lavish scale (the bill is thought to have run to £30,000) for the Seventh Earl of Stamford when he was made Master of Quorn Hunt in 1856. "
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