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Hon. Frederick Hatton Fermor-Hesketh (born 13 October 1988) In 2006, Lord Hesketh's financial difficulties forced him to sell the family seat, Easton Neston, at Towcester, Northamptonshire—the only surviving completed house by the English baroque architect Nicholas Hawksmoor—and all furnishings of the house, including even the family portraits.
Baron Hesketh, of Hesketh in the County Palatine of Lancaster, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1935 for Sir Thomas Fermor-Hesketh, 8th Baronet , [ 1 ] who had previously briefly represented Enfield in the House of Commons as a Conservative .
Hon. Frederick Fermor-Hesketh, 2nd Baron Hesketh (1916–1955) [2] Hon. John Breckinridge Fermor-Hesketh (1917–1961), who married Patricia Macaskie Cole in 1946. [6] Lord Hesketh died in July 1944, aged 62. As his eldest son Thomas was killed in an airplane accident in France in 1937, he was succeeded in his titles by his second son Frederick ...
Lord Hesketh: the Conservative Party politician, formally titled Alexander Fermor-Hesketh, 3rd Baron Hesketh. Hesketh Racing: the 1970s Formula One racing team, formed by Alexander Hesketh; Hesketh Motorcycles: the motorcycle brand, formed by Alexander Hesketh; Chris Hesketh, English rugby league footballer; Kenneth Hesketh, British composer
Hesketh Racing was a Formula One constructor from the United Kingdom, which competed from 1973 to 1978.The team competed in 52 World Championship Grands Prix, winning one and achieving eight further podium finishes.
Born Thomas George Hesketh, he was the second son of Sir Thomas Fermor-Hesketh, 5th Baronet, and Lady Anna Maria Isabella Fermor, daughter of Thomas Fermor, 4th Earl of Pomfret. In 1867 he and his father assumed by Royal licence the additional surname of Fermor and in 1876 he succeeded his elder brother as 7th Baronet of Rufford.
Hesketh was a collector of top-end books in the early 1950s. The trustees of his will sold some of his books, manuscripts and letters in 2010 at Sotheby's . The four volumes of John James Audubon 's Birds of America were bought by renowned London book dealer Michael Tollemache for a record £7,321,250.
Sir Thomas Hesketh of Whitehill (1548–15 October 1605) was an English lawyer and politician. [ 2 ] Born the second son of Gabriel Hesketh of Aughton and Jane Halsall, Hesketh was educated at Hart Hall , Oxford , and the University of Cambridge , before entering Grays Inn in 1572. [ 3 ]