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A part of the estate, including the main house, some outlying buildings and 550 acres (2.2 km 2) of land, were sold for about £15 million to Leon Max, a retail businessman and designer. [11] Lord Hesketh subsequently sold off the farmland and the Gothic village of Hulcote, but retained ownership of Towcester Racecourse.
The family seat, Easton Neston, which Lord Hesketh sold in 2006. On 21 May 1977, Lord Hesketh married Hon. Claire Georgina Watson, a daughter of Rupert Watson, 3rd Baron Manton and the former Mary Elizabeth Hallinan. Together, they are the parents of three children who use the surname Hesketh day-to-day: [2]
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 .
Easton Neston House was built for Sir William Fermor (later Lord Leominster ("Lem-ster")) in 1685-1695 and remodelled by Nicholas Hawksmoor, 1700-1702. [6] It was built on the site of Easton Nestone village, the main Oxford to Northampton road being re-routed to the west. The grounds also have 18th century Stables and a Temple dated 1641.
In 1846 Sir Thomas George Hesketh, 5th Baronet married Lady Anna Maria Arabella Fermor, sister and heiress of George Richard William Fermor, 5th and last Earl of Pomfret. In 1936 Rufford Old Hall, with its collection of arms and armour and 17th-century oak furniture, was donated to the National Trust by Thomas Fermor-Hesketh, 1st Baron Hesketh.
In 2004, the Easton Neston estate, including the race course, was put up for sale. The third Lord Hesketh later decided to retain ownership of the course and sold only a portion of the estate to a Russian-born businessman. Entry was free from 2002 until 2006, during which time the course saw attendance grow significantly.
Frederick Fermor-Hesketh (1883–1910), who went missing in 1910. [9] When his father-in-law died in 1885, he left one third of his estate to his daughter Florence in a trust administered by her brother Frederick and brother-in-law Francis G. Newlands. When the trust expired, her part of the fortune passed to the Fermor-Hesketh family.
Sir Thomas George Fermor-Hesketh, 7th Baronet (1849–1924), who married the American heiress Florence Emily Sharon, a daughter of U.S. Senator William Sharon in 1880. [2] Hugh Robert Hesketh (1850–1879) [2] On the death of his unmarried brother-in-law, George, in 1867, he inherited the 5,000 acre estate of Easton Neston. In 1868, he assumed ...