The Reeve’s Tale
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BAWDESWELL HALL Bawdeswell
Hall carries the date 1683 and is a gracious building with Dutch Gables. It
was built by Henry Eglinton and it remained in his family until 1748 when it
was bought by Thomas Jecks. Thomas
Jecks died in 1761 leaving an only child Elizabeth, then under 21, who by
1766 had become the wife of Richard Lloyd of Bylaugh Hall. Their daughter
Diana married James Stoughton, Rector of Sparham, who bought the property
from the other children of Richard Lloyd and Elizabeth. James
Stoughton's grandson Clarke Hallett Lloyd Stoughton sold the property in 1912
to Colonel Q E Gurney. After
his death the property passed to his son R Q Gurney, and after a tragic
accident in 1980 when his horse threw him, it passed to his son David Q
Gurney. In
2007 the house was passed on to his son Robert Gurney. MORE
INFORMATION ·
The Lloyd family and the legend of Bylaugh Hall ·
The Gurney family, founder members of Barclays Bank. |
