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The Manor of Lackham IV : 19 th & 20 th century owners 42 Relationship of Galite Islands to Biserts and Tunis 149 Appendices 1 Military career of Frederick William Rooke RN 130 2 An account of the wreck of HMS Avenger and the 142 actions of Lieut F Rooke RN 3 10 th Armored Infantry Division Reports up to D-Day 155 (USA and Lackham) 4 Comparative land values 1835 -1945 157 5
The Manor of Lackham IV : 19 th & 20 th century owners By the nineteenth century the Wiltshire manor of Lackham, secure in its bend of the River Avon between Chippenham and Lacock, had only known three families since the Norman Conquest, the Bluets, the Baynards and the Wiltshire branch of the Montagu family. The Montagu tenure of Lackham didn’t so much end as fizzle out after the death of James Montagu VI, in 1797. Following court cases between James’ brother George, and George’s son George Courtney Montagu, the estate was held in trust under Chancery rules 4 . The estate remained in Montagu hands, under the supervising control of the Trustees appointed by the Court, until 1835 when it was sold. However the estate was rented out, from as early as 1817, by Lt Col Tufnell The Tufnells at Lackham This date is supported by an entry in the Gentleman’s Magazine in that year - “ at Lackham House Hants [sic] the wife of Lieut-Col Tufnell a dau 5 The Hants is a mistake, Tufnell’s daughter Charlotte Bonella Caroline Tufnell, was baptized at St Cyriac’s on October 16 th 1817 6 . 4 For details of this (complicated) period see Pratt, T (2003) The Manor of Lackham : Two Georgian Montagus Wiltshire College Lackham online at http://www.lackham.co.uk/history/two_georgian_montagus.pdf 5 Gentleman’s Magazine vol 87 (1818) pt 2 p274 “Births” 6 Lacock Parish Registers, Baptisms 6
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