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then-unborn child, whether son or daughter. The younger George Smyth made major alterations and additions to the
Jacobean house from 1763 and transformed it into the present house. In 1735 he married Sarah, the daughter of Henry Biggs of Benthall. In 1767, their son Nicholas married Anna Maria, daughter of Sir Charles Leighton, and heiress to her grandmother’s
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to his grandson George Smyth, it being settled on him at the time of his marriage in 1691. In the early 1700s George had a coloured engraving made of his estate. His son, also George, was born shortly after his father died in 1712. In his will the senior George Smyth left all of his estates to his
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Nibley Hall (formerly 'Nibley House') was inherited by his son, also John (1611-1692). The younger John was also a writer, his most notable work being “A Description of the
Hundred of Berkeley”; from about 1640 he was reluctantly caught up in the Civil War. The younger John’s eldest son, Edward,
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style ceiling located in its drawing room thought to have been inspired by the work of the famous Swiss-Italian stuccoist
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