Hornby Castle, Yorkshire was a fourteenth and fifteenth-century courtyard castle in Swaledale. It was largely rebuilt in the fifteenth century by William Conyers, 1st Baron Conyers

William Conyers, 1st Baron Conyers

William Conyers, 1st Baron Conyers , also known as William Conyers of Hornby, was an English baron and aristocrat.-Personal life:...

 after the Conyers family had inherited it, but retained the fourteenth-century St. Quintins tower (demolished in 1927) named after the medieval family which had originally owned the building.

Hornby was largely rebuilt in the 1760s by John Carr of York, who was responsible for the surviving south range and the east range (demolished in the 1930s) and outbuildings, for Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness

Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness

Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness PC , known before 1721 as Lord Darcy and Conyers, was a British diplomat and politician. From 1744 to 1746 he was ambassador at Venice and from 1749 to 1751 he represented his country at The Hague...

. The eventual heir was the Duke of Leeds

Duke of Leeds

Duke of Leeds was a title in the Peerage of England. It was created in 1694 for the prominent statesman Thomas Osborne, 1st Marquess of Carmarthen...

, who assembled there rich early eighteenth-century furniture from several houses, illustrated in the books of Percy Macquoid

Percy Macquoid

Percy Macquoid was a theatrical designer and a collector and connoisseur of English furniture, and the author of articles, largely for Country Life, and of four books on the history of English furniture, the first major survey of the subject, which have been reprinted and are still of use today:...

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