Arbury Hall
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Nuneaton
Nuneaton is the largest town in the Borough of Nuneaton and Bedworth and in the English county of Warwickshire.Nuneaton is most famous for its associations with the 19th century author George Eliot, who was born on a farm on the Arbury Estate just outside Nuneaton in 1819 and lived in the town for...
in Warwickshire
Warwickshire
Warwickshire is a landlocked non-metropolitan county in the West Midlands region of England. The county town is Warwick, although the largest town is Nuneaton. The county is famous for being the birthplace of William Shakespeare...
, England
England
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, and is the ancestral home of the Newdigate family, later the Newdigate-Newdegate and Fitzroy-Newdegate families.
The hall is built on the site of a former monastery
Monastery
Monastery denotes the building, or complex of buildings, that houses a room reserved for prayer as well as the domestic quarters and workplace of monastics, whether monks or nuns, and whether living in community or alone .Monasteries may vary greatly in size – a small dwelling accommodating only...
in a mixture of Tudor
Tudor architecture
The Tudor architectural style is the final development of medieval architecture during the Tudor period and even beyond, for conservative college patrons...
and 18th-century Gothic Revival architecture
Gothic Revival architecture
The Gothic Revival is an architectural movement that began in the 1740s in England...
, the latter being the work of Sir Roger Newdigate
Roger Newdigate
Sir Roger Newdigate, 5th Baronet was an English politician and collector of antiquities.He was born in Arbury, Warwickshire, the son of Sir Richard Newdigate, 3rd Baronet and inherited the title 5th Baronet and the estates of Arbury and of Harefield in Middlesex on the early death of his brother...
from designs by Henry Keene
Henry Keene
Henry Keene was an English architect, notable for designing buildings in the Gothic Revival and Neoclassical style.- Life and work :...
.
The hall is set in 300 acres (121 ha) of parkland. The 19th-century author George Eliot
George Eliot
Mary Anne Evans , better known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, journalist and translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era...
(Mary Anne Evans) was born on one of the estate farms in 1819, the daughter of the estate's land agent. She immortalised Arbury Hall as "Cheverel Manor" in Scenes of Clerical Life
Scenes of Clerical Life
Scenes of Clerical Life is the title under which George Eliot's first published fictional work, a collection of three short stories, was released in book form, and the first of her works to be released under her famous pseudonym...
, where it is the setting for "Mr Gilfil's Love Story".
The film Angels and Insects was shot entirely at Arbury Hall and within the grounds.
Custodians of Arbury Hall (Ownership)
- Sir Edmund Anderson (1567–1586)
- John Newdegate (1586–1587)
- Sir John Newdegate (1587–1610)
- John Newdegate (1610–1642)
- Sir Richard Newdigate, 1st BaronetSir Richard Newdigate, 1st Baronet-Life:He was born on 17 September 1602, a younger son of Sir John Newdigate of Arbury Hall, in the parish of Chilvers Coton, Warwickshire, by Anne Fitton, eldest daughter of Sir Edward Fitton, baronet, of Gawsworth in Cheshire. John Newdegate was his grandfather...
(1642–1665) - Sir Richard Newdigate, 2nd BaronetNewdigate BaronetsThe Newdigate Baronetcy, of Arbury, Warwickshire, was created on 24 July 1677 in the Baronetage of England for Richard Newdigate of Arbury Hall. It became extinct on the death of the 5th Baronet on 2 December 1806.-Baronets of Arbury :...
(1665–1710) - Sir Richard Newdigate, 3rd BaronetNewdigate BaronetsThe Newdigate Baronetcy, of Arbury, Warwickshire, was created on 24 July 1677 in the Baronetage of England for Richard Newdigate of Arbury Hall. It became extinct on the death of the 5th Baronet on 2 December 1806.-Baronets of Arbury :...
(1710–1727) - Sir Edward Newdigate, 4th BaronetNewdigate BaronetsThe Newdigate Baronetcy, of Arbury, Warwickshire, was created on 24 July 1677 in the Baronetage of England for Richard Newdigate of Arbury Hall. It became extinct on the death of the 5th Baronet on 2 December 1806.-Baronets of Arbury :...
(1727–1734) - Sir Roger Newdigate, 5th Baronet (1734–1806)
- Francis Parker NewdigateFrancis Parker NewdigateFrancis Parker Newdigate was Lord of the Manor of Kirk Hallam, near Ilkeston, Derbyshire, where the parish church of All Saints displays a memorial window dedicated to his memory...
(1806–1835) - The Rt Hon. Charles Newdigate-NewdegateCharles Newdigate NewdegateCharles Newdigate Newdegate was a British Conservative politician.-Early life:He was the only son of Charles Parker Newdigate Newdegate of Harefield Park, Uxbridge, Middlesex, and his wife, Maria Boucherett, of Lincolnshire. He was educated at Eton College, King's College London, and Christ...
(1835–1887) - Lt Gen. Sir Edward Newdigate-NewdegateEdward NewdegateSir Edward Newdigate Newdegate KCB was a member of the Newdigate family and a soldier. He was born at Astley, near Nuneaton, the second son of Francis Parker Newdigate and Barbara Maria Legge....
(1887–1902) - Sir Francis Alexander Newdigate-NewdegateFrancis NewdegateSir Francis Alexander Newdigate Newdegate GCMG was Governor of Tasmania from 1917 to 1920, and Governor of Western Australia from 1920 to 1924....
(1902–1936) - The Hon. Mrs Lucia FitzRoy-Newdegate (1936–1950)
- 3rd Viscount Daventry F H M FitzRoy NewdegateFrancis FitzRoy Newdegate, 3rd Viscount DaventryFrancis Humphrey Maurice FitzRoy Newdegate, 3rd Viscount Daventry succeeded to the title as 3rd Viscount Daventry on the death of his uncle, the 2nd Viscount Daventry in 1986....
(1950–2000) - 4th Viscount Daventry, James Edward FitzRoy-Newdegate (2000-to present date)