Beginning of the deed of conveyance for the sale of Pontrilas Court to John Lucy Scudamore (1840)

Pontrilas Court
Ownership and Land

Pontrilas Court was once part of a larger estate which included Pontrilas Farm, Mill and Forge together with other houses, farms and land amounting to more than 1,330 acres in five Herefordshire parishes. The Court, Farm and Mill are shown most clearly on the 1838 Kentchurch tithe map shown opposite (and described on page 21) while the forge was further up the road to the north-east.

Many early historical records refer merely to ‘Pontrilas’ and it is not always clear whether the subject is the village, the estate or Pontrilas Court. The present building at Pontrilas Court is believed to have been constructed between 1630 and 1640, but there may well have been an earlier house or farm on the estate when the Baskerville family came to Pontrilas in the 16th century.

Extract from Kentchurch tithe map showing
Pontrilas Court, Pontrilas Farm and Pontrilas
Mill (1839)

Baskerville (c1530-1671)

A number of Herefordshire histories record the Baskerville family at Pontrilas and most of them agree that the first of the family to settle at Pontrilas was Thomas Baskerville, son of Sir Walter Baskerville of Eardisley, who died in 1551. This suggests that Thomas Baskerville was in Pontrilas almost a hundred years before the present Pontrilas Court was built.

In his book The Commoners of Great Britain compiled in 1836, John Burke described the Baskerville family as:

‘one of the most ancient and honourable in England, its name is upon the roll of Battle Abbey, it has ever maintained the highest rank amongst the gentry, and it can boast of the blood of the Plantagenets.’

According to Burke, the Baskervilles of Eardisley between them:

‘served the office of sheriff no less than twenty-one times, and were elected knights of the shire in eleven parliaments.’

In addition to being the first of the family in Pontrilas, Thomas Baskerville was reputed to be the father of an illegitimate son named Walter Baskerville whose descendants acquired the Pontrilas estate, built Pontrilas Court and lived there for about 150 years. A surviving early-17th century indenture records that Walter’s son, James Baskerville of Pontrilas, leased ‘one iron mill or ironwork called Pontrylas Forge’ to Benedict Hall Esq for 12 years in April 1623.13 James’ son, Walter Baskerville of Pontrilas, conducted similar deals showing that the family was active in Pontrilas during the 17th century.

James Baskerville or his son Walter were the mostly likely people to have built Pontrilas Court although no evidence of this was found. Walter’s likely age best fits with the building’s estimated build date of 1630- 1640.

Among Walter Baskerville’s estate activities during the 17th century was one for a lease of land in Ewyas Harold (see transcript opposite).14 There is a similar deed dated 1637 when Walter Baskerville leased two parcels of land in Ewyas Harold. In 1639 he contracted further business with Benedict Hall,15 and in 1640 he leased 5 acres of land in Westhide to Joan Stone of London.

Walter’s son Humphrey Baskerville of Pontrilas was similarly recorded in a number of land transactions including the assignment of Joan Stone’s lease in 1664. In 1665 he was involved in a dispute with John Scudamore of Kentchurch over his alteration of the course of the river Worme to benefit Kentchurch Mill which obstructed the river at Pontrilas Forge then owned by Humphrey Baskerville. The two men drew up articles of agreement to settle the matter between them.17 Humphrey Baskerville was still at Pontrilas in 1671 when he signed his name to a deed regarding property in Weobley. The male line of this branch of the family expired with Humphrey Baskerville. The circumstances and timing of his leaving Pontrilas are unknown, but by 1692 the property was in the hands of the Jackson family.

Transcript of a lease given by Walter
Baskerville of Pontrilas for land in Ewuas
Harold (1630)

Extracts from deed signed by Humphrey
Baskerville of Pontrilas (1671)

Partial pedigree of the Baskerville family of Pontrilas with an estimated timeline

Jackson (1692-1758)

According to Duncomb, Philip Jackson acquired Pontrilas before 1695, passing it subsequently to his sons Edward and Philip. The Kentchurch poll tax return of 1692 (shown below) makes no mention of the Baskerville family, however, two prominent families are included: that of John Scudamore (known to be of Kentchurch Court) and Edward Jackson. This suggests that the Baskervilles had left Pontrilas by 1692 and that the estate was in the hands of the Jackson family.

The poll tax levied a charge upon each person and listed the members of each household in order of rank. The Kentchurch return was assessed on 4 October 1692. The first entries were for John Scudamore and his household, followed by that of Edward Jackson. A considerable amount of information about the Jackson family is included in the return: Edward Jackson Esq is charged the poll and for his ‘degree and half a light horse’. It also records Madam Constance, his wife; Phillip Jackson gent their son; Christopher Jackson gent another son, followed by five people afterwards described as ‘servants to Edward Jackson Esq’.

The NW wing of Pontrilas Court, the dovecote and stabling all date from the late-17th century and may have been commissioned by Edward Jackson when he acquired the estate. He may well have felt the need to extend and improve Pontrilas Court either to meet the needs of his household or simply to make his mark upon the property. When Edward Jackson died in 1694, his son Philip inherited the Pontrilas estate.

Philip Jackson was Sheriff of Herefordshire in 1714 and was knighted in 1715, serving as Governor of the Bank of England from 1711 to 1724. He died without issue in 1734. His uncle, Philip Jackson of Richmond, married Elizabeth Vandeput and two of their children, Philip and John, had connections with Pontrilas (these relationships are illustrated in a pedigree of the Jackson family on the right). The first of these was Philip Jackson who succeeded to his father’s Herefordshire estate but died intestate in 1758 and Pontrilas descended to his brother John’s children Mary and Elizabeth.

John Jackson had been elected Governor of Bengal in 1747 but died before he was able to take up the post and his daughters inherited the Pontrilas estate from their uncle Philip. Mary Jackson bought her sister’s share of the estate before her marriage in 1758 when the estate passed to her husband Henry Shiffner.

Extract from Kentchurch poll tax relating to the Jackson family (1692)

Partial pedigree of the Jackson and Shiffner families of Pontrilas Court

Henry Shiffner (1758-1795)

Henry Shiffner was born in 1721, the eldest son of a Russian merchant, Matthew Shiffner, who moved to London from St Petersburg in the early 18th century. Matthew Shiffner died in 1756 leaving his sons Henry and John to continue his merchants business in Broad Street, London where they traded mostly with northern Europe. In 1758 Henry Shiffner married his second wife, Mary Jackson, the eldest daughter of John Jackson former Governor-elect of Bengal, who owned the Pontrilas Estate. The estate at that time included land in the Herefordshire parishes of Kentchurch, Ewyas Harold, Kenderchurch and Rowlstone.

Shiffner lived at Lindsey House, Lincoln’s Inn Fields in London between 1759 and 1762 where his coat of arms and that of his wife Mary were carved in one of the alcoves. In 1761 the brothers’ trading business failed which Henry Shiffner blamed on his brother’s foolishness. Their business failure occurred just as Henry Shiffner had been elected one of the two Members of Parliament for Minehead in Somerset, a seat he held from 1761 to 1768. The Shiffners moved to Pontrilas Court and would probably have employed a steward to manage the estate.

The Pontrilas Estate was recorded in land tax records from the earliest surviving return of 1777 through to 1838, providing sixty years of information about its ownership and occupancy. Land tax returns recorded the owners and occupiers of property and the amount of tax paid each year in each parish. Although properties are not always named, the amount payable was constant and it is therefore possible to use these records in conjunction with other sources to identify a particular address.

The 1777 land tax return for Kentchurch did not distinguish between owner and occupier, listing only the person who paid the tax, in this case ‘Mr Price for the Pontrilas Estate’ who paid £4 3s 1½d (£sd – 12 pence to a shilling, 20 shillings to a pound).29 This amount was equivalent to £385 in 2007. The return includes a separate entry for Mr Price at Pontrilas Mill on which the land tax was 12s 6d (equivalent to £62 in 200731). It would appear that Pontrilas Court and Pontrilas Farm were assessed as a single estate for the purposes of the land tax.

In 1784 Henry Shiffner was in correspondence with a Mr Pateshall regarding a new road, location unknown, and several of his letters have survived, all written from Pontrilas. This is a transcription of one of his letters (shown opposite):

‘Pontrilas, 2 Feb 1784:
Dear Sir, Mrs Shiffner by indifferent health and by the severity of the weather has been prevented in her intention of waiting on Mrs Pateshall for which we hope to make amends on our return from London. You very kindly offered to undertake the new making [of] the road between the Pitch at Woolocks bridge and the gravel pits, the distance from me will make your supervising it very obliging. I told Mr Wynn last Friday that I desired a deduction might be made from the allotment to me to be paid to you for the expense of making it; that bill made will I think make all our road a very good one. With very respectful complements to Mrs Pateshall and yourself, I am, sir, your very humble servant, H Shiffner’

Henry Shiffner was recorded as owner of Pontrilas Farm and Pontrilas Mill between 1782 and 1802 in the land tax records as shown in the 1795 return shown opposite when Richard Adams was the occupier.

Henry and Mary Shiffner had six children but only two, George and Thomas, survived infancy. Although the land tax records continued to record Henry Shiffner as the proprietor of the Pontrilas estate until 1802 (see 1795 return opposite), he actually died in 1795. There may have been a delay in finalising the handing over of the estate which would account for the records not keeping in step with family events. A year before his death Henry Shiffner executed a deed conveying the Pontrilas estate to his son George Shiffner.

Extract from Kentchurch land tax return
showing entry for Pontrilas Estate (1777)

Letter from Henry Shiffner to Mr Pateshall (1784)

Extract from Kentchurch land tax return showing entry for Pontrilas farm (1795)

Sir George Shiffner (1795-1811)

George Shiffner was born in November 1762. He spent five years as a cornet (a rank which became second lieutenant in 1871) in the 11th regiment of the Light Dragoons from 1782-1787. On resigning from his regiment he married Mary Bridger of Coombe Place in Sussex in 1787, an event which was announced in the Gentleman’s Magazine that year, and the couple had eight children.

George Shiffner held many public appointments including justice of the peace, deputy lieutenant and followed his father into politics serving as a Member of Parliament for the Conservatives with a seat in Lewes, Sussex from 1812 until 1826. George Shiffner’s main residence was at Coombe Place and it is not clear how much time he spent at Pontrilas Court. He was recorded as its owner in the land tax records between 1804 and 1811.

A surviving letter written by George Shiffner to his agent on 16 January 1806 (illustrated opposite) gives a taste of his personality, handwriting and signature. He wrote regarding some leases and other property matters, giving instructions for obtaining payment. He wrote from Dover Street in London saying that he would be in London until Easter. The letter ended saying:

‘Mr Robert Symonds has not taken any notice at all of my application by letter to him long since and I must therefore beg you to write to him to enforce the payment. I shall wish to have your account when the leases are signed. Believe me, dear sir, very sincerely yours, George Shiffner’.

A deed of conveyance made on 29 August 1840 provided information about the Pontrilas estate and its sale by George Shiffner in 1811.36 The estate included Pontrilas Court, Pontrilas Farm, Great Pen-y-lan Farm, and other lands in the parishes of Kentchurch, Ewyas Harold, Kenderchurch and Rowlstone which George Shiffner sold to Dr John Ashfordby Trenchard in 1811 for £51,500 (equivalent to £2.75 million in 200737). This transaction was also recorded in an abstract of title from 1881 (shown opposite).

George Shiffner was created first baronet of Coombe Place, Sussex in December 1818. He died in February 1842,39 and his obituary in The Gentleman’s Magazine recorded that:

‘Many who had honoured and loved him through a long and useful life were desirous of testifying their respect and attachment by following his body to the grave, but in compliance with his expressed wish that his funeral should be strictly private, the attendance was confined to his own family.’

Extract from George Shiffner’s letter (1806)

Extract from abstract of title (1881)

The Reverend John Ashfordby Trenchard (1811-1839)

The Pontrilas estate deeds record that the Reverend John Ashfordby Trenchard bought the estate from George Shiffner in 1811. However the Kentchurch land tax returns record that Charles and Patrick Thompson were its proprietors in 1812, and thereafter Charles Thompson was the sole proprietor through to 1822. The amount of land tax was unchanged and the same tenant, William Adams, occupied the property. The Reverend Dr Trenchard was recorded as proprietor of the Pontrilas farm and mill in the Kentchurch land tax returns from 1823 to 1838, with William Adams as tenant of both properties throughout that period.

John Ashfordby Trenchard married Sarah Brooks on 6 Jun 1834, however their marriage was a short one. Trenchard died early in 1838 and his estate was put up for sale. The sale broke up Extract from abstract of title (1881) the Pontrilas estate into smaller holdings, although that for Pontrilas Court remained a significant estate of 600 acres. The surviving sale particulars provide a great deal of information about the property.

Now the Pontrilas estate comprised arable, pasture, meadow and woodland in the five parishes of Kentchurch, Ewyas Harold, Rowlstone, Kenderchurch and Dulas all in Herefordshire. It included Pontrilas Court described as ‘an old mansion house’, farmhouses, cottages etc together with the Rectory of Ewyas Harold and the right of presentation to the vicarage. A plan showing the location of the estate is illustrated opposite. Mr Adams of Pontrilas was the contact for interested parties to view the estate.

Pontrilas Court was part of Lot 1, still be to known as the Pontrilas estate, which included the ‘Pontrilas Mansion House, an old stone building capable of being converted into a comfortable residence’. A tenant named Miss De La Motte who paid ‘the extremely low rental of £20 per annum’ occupied the house, and the description gives the clear impression that Pontrilas Court was not a comfortable place to live in 1839.

The estate also included offices, coachhouse, stable, garden and fishponds together with the neighbouring properties of Pontrilas Farm and Little Pen-y-lan Farm. The Pontrilas Mansion House had almost four acres of land, and Pontrilas Farm, occupied by William Adams, 266 acres including the corn mill which was listed separately in the Kentchurch land tax returns already discussed. The other farms in the estate brought the total to 600 acres.

The vendors of the Pontrilas Estate were the trustees of the late Dr Trenchard’s will, and the sale was an important facet of winding up the deceased’s financial affairs. Conditions of sale for the Pontrilas estate required the vendor to present to the purchaser an abstract of title to the property, however in practice the conveyance by which the late Dr Trenchard had purchased the estate from Sir George Shiffner in 1811 appears to have been sufficient evidence of title for Pontrilas Court. The minimum bid for lot 1 was £50 (equivalent to £3,340 in 2007).

The sale plan (opposite) shows that John Lucy Scudamore owned much of the land surrounding the Pontrilas estate, and it was he who purchased Pontrilas Court in 1840 and became its new owner.

Plan of the Pontrilas Estate from sale particulars (1839)

Summary of Lot 1 from Pontrilas Estate sale particulars (1839)

Deed of conveyance of the Pontrilas Estate between the heirs of the Rev John Trenchard and John Lucy Scudamore (1840)

Cover of the Pontrilas estate sale particulars (1839)

Details of Lot 1 from the Pontrilas Estate sale particulars (1839)

John Lucy Scudamore (1840-1875)

The Scudamore family have owned Kentchurch Court near Pontrilas for more than seven centuries and the property remains in their family today. In the mid-19th century John Lucy Scudamore owned large tracts of land in Herefordshire including much of the land surrounding the Pontrilas estate. It was therefore not surprising that John Lucy Scudamore took the opportunity of purchasing the Pontrilas Estate when it came up for sale in 1839.

The sale was finalised in a conveyance dated 29 August 1840. Scudamore paid £20,584 for the Pontrilas estate (equivalent to £1.4 million in 2007) and he devised it to his grandson Edward Lucas-Scudamore. A plan of the estate was included in the deed of conveyance (see opposite) and included, in addition to Pontrilas Court, the farms mentioned in the sale particulars.

Scudamore’s purchase of Pontrilas Court occurred just as the Kentchurch tithe survey was being conducted which provided further information about the property and its land.

At the beginning of Victoria’s reign, the ancient practice of paying tithes of a tenth of the annual produce from land or labour to support the local clergy was under reform. In 1836 an Act of Parliament allowed tithe charges to be changed to a monetary payment, and commissioners were appointed to survey every parish to assess land values and agree the rent charges. The outputs of the survey were a map showing each plot of land labelled by number, and a schedule detailing the ownership and occupancy of each plot.

The schedule contained a description of the land, its state of cultivation, size and the rent-charge payable. For houses, the description might read ‘House and garden’, while land was often described by its field name or by type, eg field, wood, copse, etc. Where relevant, the state of cultivation of land was described, eg arable, meadow, pasture. The area of each plot was measured in acres, roods and perches (40 perches to a rood, 4 roods to an acre). The rent charges were in pounds, shillings and pence.

The 1839 tithe map for Kentchurch shows Pontrilas Court as plot 313, with neighbouring Pontrilas Farm and Mill.

The tithe schedule was usually arranged alphabetically by the surname of the landowner, and then alphabetically by the occupier’s surname. However, in order to find out the owner and occupier of a property or piece or land, it was first necessary to identify the parish where the property was located, find the plot of land on the tithe map, identify its plot number, and then search the tithe schedule for that reference. The plots listed with the same occupier indicate the extent of that person’s tenancy under a particular landowner.

The tithe apportionment, which was prepared two years after the tithe map in 1841, recorded John Lucy Scudamore as the owner and occupier of plot 313, Pontrilas Court, whose land amounted to almost 3 acres. It is interesting that plot 315, an orchard to the west of the property, was then part of Pontrilas Farm and did not belong to Pontrilas Court. The land included in the three properties Pontrilas Court, Farm and Mill comprised 139 acres in the parish of Kentchurch. The location of the land belonging to Pontrilas Court is outlined on the tithe map shown opposite.

John Lucy Scudamore was born in 1798. His only daughter Laura was born in 1831 and married Fitzherbert Dacre Lucas and the couple took the name Lucas-Scudamore, presumably to preserve Scudamore for later generations. John Lucy Scudamore died in 1875 and his grandson Edward Lucas-Scudamore inherited Pontrilas Court as recorded in the 1840 deed of conveyance.

A volume of notes written about the Scudamore family in Kentchurch by W C Cooke in 1881 contained this description of Pontrilas Court:

‘The mansion house has been partly rebuilt and restored in the Elizabethan style and stands in a picturesque situation in a park of 300 acres well stocked with deer having a sporting domain of 6000 acres. The river Monnow which passes through the property affords excellent trout fishing. The house is 12 miles by road from Hereford, two of which are through the estate. It is 10 miles distant from the towns of Abergavenny, Monmouth and Ross.’

The reference to the house being partly rebuilt is most likely to have occurred after the Scudamore family purchased Pontrilas Court in 1840 when, as we have seen, it was not regarded as a particularly comfortable property. It was probably John Lucy Scudamore or his grandson Edward Lucas-Scudamore who made the 19th century improvements to Pontrilas Court using their considerable wealth and resources.

Map of the Pontrilas Estate when it was sold to John Lucy Scudamore (1840)

Beginning of the deed of conveyance for the sale of Pontrilas Court to John Lucy Scudamore (1840)

Extract from Kentchurch tithe map showing Pontrilas Court as plot 313 (1839)

Extract from Kentchurch tithe map (1839)

Edward & Sybil Lucas-Scudamore (1875- 1926)

Edward Lucas-Scudamore was born in 1853, the son of Fitzherbert and Laura Lucas-Scudamore. He inherited Pontrilas Court (and the Kentchurch estate) from his grandfather, John Lucy Scudamore, who died just as Edward Lucas- Scudamore achieved his majority in 1875.

In 1892 Edward Lucas-Scudamore of Monmouth Cap (about a mile south of Pontrilas) was recorded in the Kentchurch electoral register as entitled to vote in parliamentary elections because of his ownership of Pontrilas Court, a freehold house and land. He was similarly recorded in 1904 and 1906.

Edward Lucas-Scudamore married Sybil Frances Webber in 1900 and the couple had one son, John Harford Stanhope Lucas-Scudamore, and two daughters.

In 1910 a government survey was carried out which provides further information about property ownership and occupancy details at Pontrilas Court. The Valuation Office survey came about when the Liberal Government introduced a bill in 1909 designed to tax landowners for increases in land values thought to be due more to improved roads and public services than any capital outlay by landowners. The bill was passed as the Finance Act of 1910. In order to set a benchmark for land values across the country against which any increases could be measured, a survey was conducted by the Valuation Office which set out to establish the rateable value of all properties on 30 April 1909. Although the Finance Act was repealed ten years later, the Valuation Office survey remains a useful snapshot of land ownership that can be compared with the tithe survey of seventy years earlier.

The Herefordshire Valuation Office survey was based on the 1904 Ordnance Survey 2nd edition 25” series of maps on which the boundaries of each property were marked and assigned a plot number. Pontrilas Court was plot 168 as shown in this extract from the Kentchurch survey map Sir Edward Lucas-Scudamore56 which also shows very clear outlines of the house and gardens as they were in 1910. The orchard to the west of the house which was recorded as belonging to Pontrilas Farm in the 1841 tithe survey had by 1910 become part of Pontrilas Court.

The accompanying survey valuation book (see right) described the property as Pontrilas Court comprising house and land owned by Col Lucas-Scudamore and occupied by Col Prescott- Decie. Its land amounted to 5 acres and the gross annual value of the house and land was £98 10s per annum (equivalent to £7,200 in 2007).

Kelly’s Directory of Herefordshire for 1914 recorded Col Edward Lucas Scudamore of Castle Shane, co Monaghan as owner of Pontrilas Court, and he also appeared in the 1916 electoral register as owner of the property. He died in 1917 and Pontrilas Court was put up for sale.

The trustees of Edward Lucas-Scudamore’s estate arranged the sale of Pontrilas Court to take place on 12 November 1919 and an advertisement was placed in Country Life on 30 August 191958. The estate amounted to 1,633 acres as shown in the location plan included in the sale particulars illustrated opposite.

The estate was divided into the lots shown opposite whose acreages can be compared with those of the 1839 sale.

Pontrilas Court was Lot 1 and the sale particulars provide a detailed description of the property including its rooms, facilities, gardens and grounds. The house had evidently been modernised since 1840 and had land amounting to 10 acres as well as fishing rights on the rivers Monnow and Dore. These sale particulars are especially valuable because they are the earliest to include photographs of the property.

The sale was reported in the local newspaper which stated that many of the properties were bought by their tenants, a very common situation for the period when many large estates were being broken up.

Pontrilas Court, however, was ‘withdrawn at £5,700’ (equivalent to £188,000 in 200762) and Edward’s widow, Sybil Lucas-Scudamore, took up residence. Mrs Lucas-Scudamore was recorded in the 1921 electoral register at Pontrilas Court and put an entry in the 1922 and 1926 editions of Kelly’s Directory of Herefordshire as ‘Mrs Sybil Lucas-Scudamore MBE of Pontrilas Court’. This was Mrs Lucas-Scudamore’s last entry at Pontrilas after which the property was tenanted by the Stent family until 1945.

Plan showing location of the Pontrilas estate (1919)

Plan showing location of 10 acres of land belonging to Pontrilas Court (1919)

Sir Edward Lucas-Scudamore

Ordnance Survey map showing Pontrilas Court annotated with Valuation Survey plot number 168 (1910)

Kentchurch Valuation Survey book entry for Pontrilas Court (1910)

Summary of Lot 1 from Pontrilas Estate sale particulars (1919)

Pontrilas Court sale particulars (1919)

View of Pontrilas Court (1919)

Sir Alexander William and Lady Joan Keown-Boyd (1945-1993)

According to the sale particulars prepared when the house was sold in 1993, Sir Alexander Keown- Boyd bought Pontrilas Court from the Kentchurch estate in 1945. However the electoral register shows that he and his wife were living there as early as 1938.

Prior to living at Pontrilas Court, Sir Alexander had been a foreign diplomat working for the Sudan Civil Service from 1907 to 1916 during which period he married Joan Mary Dalison in 1911. The couple moved to Cairo in 1917 when Sir Alexander was appointed Private Secretary to the High Commissioner for Egypt. He served in a number of other similar posts before being appointed Director General of the European Department of the Egyptian Ministry of the Interior in 1923, a position he served until 1937 when he returned to the UK.

The Keown-Boyd’s entry in the 1938 Pontrilas electoral register was their first after their return from Egypt. Sir Alexander’s distinguished career in the Foreign Service earned him a knighthood and his entry in the 1941 Kelly’s Directory for Herefordshire reads ‘Sir Alexander William Keown- Boyd KBE CMG, Pontrilas Court’. By 1950 the household at Pontrilas Court also included David A Keown-Boyd who may have been Sir Alexander and Lady Joan’s son. However he evidently succeeded to the title of Pontrilas Court some time after Sir Alexander’s death in 1954. Lady Joan was on the 1960 electoral register and the Keown- Boyd family remained at Pontrilas until Mrs D A Keown-Boyd sold the property in 1993.

Sale particulars description of Pontrilas Court (1993)

Pontrilas Court reception hall (1993)

Pontrilas Court drawing room (1993)

Pontrilas Court
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Baskerville (c1530-1671)

Jackson (1692-1758)

Henry Shiffner (1758-1795)

Sir George Shiffner (1795-1811)

The Reverend John Ashfordby Trenchard (1811-1839)

John Lucy Scudamore (1840-1875)

Edward & Sybil Lucas-Scudamore (1875- 1926)

Sir Alexander William and Lady Joan Keown-Boyd (1945-1993)

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The Reverend John Ashfordby Trenchard (1811-1839)

John Lucy Scudamore (1840-1875)

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