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Mellish sister died in 1935 Hodsock passed to his cousin, Mary Constance Mayhew (1901-1982) née Buchanan. Mary was the great-granddaughter of Frances Katherine Mellish (d. 1854), sister of William Leigh Mellish, who married Sir Andrew Buchanan (1807-1882), 1st baronet. Mary moved into Hodsock Priory in 1942, selling off some of the surrounding land and house contents by auction in 1946. In 1966 her nephew, Sir Andrew Buchanan, 5th baronet became the owner of the property. In 1991, he was appointed
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to enlarge and alter the house. After her death in 1901 her only surviving son Henry
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Francis Mellish (1782-1817) was the second son of Charles Mellish and therefore not normally the heir. However his elder brother Joseph was disinherited because of his extravagance and gambling. Henry proved to be of similar character and by 1806 he was obliged to sell Blyth Hall to pay his
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Hodsock Priory and gardens is at the centre of the 800-acre (3.2 km) Hodsock Estate, owned by the
Buchanan family since 1765. The farm is 700 acres (2.8 km) and grows carrots, wheat, barley and sugar beet. There is 100 acres (0.40 km) of managed woodland.
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Clifton family took over the estate at the beginning of the 15th century and owned it through 14 generations to 1765. The Tudor Gatehouse was built in the early 16th Century by Sir Gervase Clifton (1516-1688) who was the favourite of successive Tudor Monarchs.
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Hodsock Priory was sold by Sir
Gervase Clifton in 1765, to William and his son Charles Mellish of Blyth Hall which was nearby. When Charles Mellish died in 1797 his son Henry Francis Mellish inherited both Blyth Hall and Hodsock Priory.
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Hodsock were developed in the first half of the 20th century under the guidance of head gardener, Arthur Ford. Ford regularly wrote articles for gardening magazines, and was reputedly head-hunted by
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When he died in 1817 his sister Anne
Chambers (1781-1855) inherited the house because he had no children. She made substantial alterations and additions to the property. She commissioned the eminent architect
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Italian terrace in the Gothic Revival style. Both her sons predeceased her, so on her death in 1855 the estates passed to her cousin William Leigh Mellish.
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visited him at his home Hodsock Priory in the summer of 1541 to bestow upon him his knighthood. It is possible that it is for this occasion that the gatehouse was built.
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