Country Images Magazine North Edition September 2017 | Page 20

D e r b y s h i re -
Lost Houses
5 th Earl of Northampton (happily seated at
Castle Ashby in that County) and from him
to 1 st Marquess Townshend (happily seated at
Raynham Hall, in north Norfolk). It stayed with
the Townshends for two further generations,
until the death of the 3 rd Marquess in 1855. He
was something of a confi rmed bachelor, whose
wife, faced with an un-consummated marriage,
went on to have numerous sons by a local brewer,
one of whom actually managed to sit as an MP as
Earl of Lei