History of Agricultural Education in Wiltshire - Lackham Countryside ...

children. She was created a Marchesa by the Pope. She purchased the Lackham
estate in 1866 from Mr. Caldwell for £46,000, 585 acres. She died 22nd
December 1883.
SIR GEORGE ERRINGTON, BT.
He was co-trustee and probably a relative of the Marchesa and seems to have
lived at Lackham as a life tenant. He was born in 1839, and died in 1920.
BRIGADIER GENERAL G. LL. PALMER, D.L.
Born 1856. He bought the estate of 585 acres for £17,652 in 1893 from Sir
George Errington, and let it to a Mrs Taylor, not living there until about 1900.
He built the stables about 1900-02. He was a D.L., and High Sheriff of
Wiltshire, 1903. M.P. for Westbury, 1918-22. He added considerably to the
estate. He was married with issue, and died in 1932.
THE LORD GLANELY, D.L.
Sir William James Tatem, St., 1st Baron (cr. 1918). Born 1868. He purchased
the Lackham estate in 1919 from Brig. General Palmer for £62,000, about 1469
acres. He married Ada Mary, daughter of Thomas Williams of Cardiff. No heir.
High Sheriff of Glamorgan, 1911-12. A shipping magnate, and famous racehorse
owner.
MAJOR HERBERT PATON HOLT, M.C.
Born in Montreal, 1890 of Irish descent, eldest son of Sir Herbert Holt.
President of the Royal Bank of Canada.
Joined the 3rd Dragoon Guards, 1910. Married Ada Elizabeth Cairns of
Montreal, and had one son and two daughters. M.P. for Upton Division of West
Ham 1924-29. High Sheriff of Wiltshire, 1935-36. Bought Lackham estate
from Lord Glanely, approximately 1469 acres for £78,000 in 1927, and a few
months later offered outlying portions 1030 acres for sale, retaining only 440
acres. He was the last private owner of Lackham. His only son, Lt. G H P Holt,
Royal Armoured Corps, attached 9th Lancers, waskilled in action in Italy, 25th
November, 1944, aged 21. Memorial tablet to him and to his mother (who died in
1945) in the Lackhani Chapel in Lacock Church,
WILTSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL
In 1945, Major Holt sold the estate, about 600 acres for £42,500, to the
Wiltshire County Council, since when it has become the Lackham College of
Agriculture.[i]