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39: 1103: 195:. Heathcote's brother, John Heathcote and his family were living there in 1817. John died unmarried on 13 January 1821 aged 72 and left the Hall to his nephew Arthur Heathcote Shepley. Arthur changed his name to Arthur Heathcote Heathcote and was the principal owner of land in Darley holding 550 acres (2.2 km). 179:, who, in 1655, sold it to Robert Steere of Bridgetown, Gent. Sir Paul Jenkinson, of Walton, being possessed of this estate in 1715, gave it to his daughter Lettice, by whom the hall and estates were sold, in 1718, to Robert Greensmith, Esq., for the sum of £1750. 174:
Stancliff-hall, which appears to have belonged to a younger branch of the Columbell family, and to have been held under the manor of Old-hall, passed by successive female heirs to the families of Newsam and Pott. It afterwards belonged to Sir John Digby of
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in Wales. The school was founded by the Rev. Ernest Owen who had been the headmaster of Llandaff School. Owen was renowned as an outstanding headmaster who believed in honour and that no boy ever left his schools.
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in the Tudor style. He and his wife moved into the Hall in 1870 when Whitworth had largely retired and was using his energies to direct the quarrying of stone from Whitworths quarry. The gardens were designed by
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Herbert Greensmith Beard was living there in 1792 when he passed on manuscripts from the Columbell family which were made for Roger Columbell of Darley Hall who died in 1605 (which confirm the
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version). That document records that Herbert Greensmith sold the hall in 1799 to William Heathcote for ten and a half thousand pounds. Heathcote was then in
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Early in the 20th century, the site became a private school with many scholars pre-1911 originating from
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Crispin Bohnam-Carter, actor and theatre director. 3rd cousin of actress Helena Bohnam-Carter
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In 1891, the hall was the property of Lady Whitworth, but it was occupied by Alfred Clay.
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It is reputed that Joseph Whitworth's wife died in an accident in a lift in the house.
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Jeremy Young, Noted South-Coast Businessman and Governor of Portsmouth University
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Stancliffe Hall was bought in 1854 and again built, of stone, by the engineer
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is a grade II Listed building on Whitworth Road in the settlement of
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Robin Sterndale-Bennett, Naval Commander and great-grandson of
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In 1930 the school was bought by David Hugh Kirkman Welsh.
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Stancliffe Hall School

Darley Dale
Coordinates
53°10′20″N 1°36′04″W / 53.1721°N 1.6012°W / 53.1721; -1.6012
https://www.stancliffehall.co.uk/
Darley Dale
Matlock
Magna Britannia
Mansfield Woodhouse
Batavia
Demarara
Joseph Whitworth
Edward Milner
T. Roger Smith
Edward Middleton Barry
Llandaff
Hugh Trevor-Roper
Pete Atkin
Ken Wiwa
William Sterndale Bennett
Leonard Wheatcroft
Stig of the Dump


online 'Parishes: Dalbury - Derby'
The Wolley Manuscripts
The History of Derby

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