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Sir John did not marry and therefore had no legal immediate heirs. The terms of his will were complex. He left his estates to Edward Beevor (1771–1847), a barrister who was his half-brother (the product of an affair with a
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Derbyshire; the details are uncertain. The unsubstantiated traditional story is that he won it from the former owner, Richard Lloyd, in a card game, after Lloyd's butler
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censuses with a very large number of servants. He died in 1897 and his son Major Edward Henry Evans-Lombe inherited the house. He did not live in the house but instead rented it to
William Knox D'Arcy, a wealthy mining magnate, from 1899 until 1917 when D'Arcy died.
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Bylaugh Hall and the 8,150 acre estate to speculators who promptly broke it up into lots and put it back on the market with estate agents John D Wood. The Hall and 736 acres of parkland were bought by the Marsh family.
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Charles Beevor (1776–1860) who assumed the name of Lombe in accordance with Sir John Lombe's will. He was the first resident of Bylaugh Hall.
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advised on the position of the house, and was responsible for laying out the grounds and gardens. The clock tower and surrounding buildings are vaguely reminiscent of the new
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