Charles Scarisbrick

Charles Eccleston Dicconson Scarisbrick

  • English

He was an eccentric man they said, and there seems to be an obscurity about the early part of his life; according to some reports he kept a gambling house in Paris, before succeeding to the estate. Neither is it a settled point whether or no he has ever been married ... He is a very eccentric and nervous man, and spends all his time at his secluded hall, which stands in the midst of mosses and marshes; and sees nobody, not even his own steward. - Thomas Eccleston Scarisbrick

Timeline

Y/M/D Description Association Composition Place Locale Food Event
Y/M/D Description Association Composition Place Locale Food Event
1801/00/00 Charles Eccleston is born in 1785 or 1801 in Scarisbrick, Lancashire. Born
1810/00/00 Charles Scarisbrick inherits Wrightington Hall and assumes the surname of Dicconson. Home Wrightington Hall Wrightington
1815/00/00 Charles Dicconson attends Stonyhurst College. Education Stonyhurst College, Old Quadrangle Stonyhurst College
1834/00/00 Charles Scarisbrick inherits Scarisbrick Hall and takes the surname and arms of Scarisbrick. Home Scarisbrick Hall Scarisbrick
1836/00/00 Charles Scarisbrick, hires Augustus Pugin, to make improvements to Scarisbrick Hall. Home Scarisbrick Hall Scarisbrick
1838/00/00 After the death of Thomas Scarisbrick in 1833, Charles fights a legal battle with his sisters over the inheritance to the Scarisbrick estate. In 1838, the case is decided in Charles' favour in the House of Lords. Life Fragments of the Painted Chamber, Old Palace of Westminster Palace of Westminster
1860/05/07 Charles Scarisbrick dies at home. One of the richest commoners in England, his estate was worth 3 million pounds sterling. Died Scarisbrick Hall Scarisbrick
1860/05/12 Scarisbrick's coffin is borne from Scarisbrick Hall by 6 or 8 keepers through the East gate by as direct a route as practicable across vegetable fields thro' the gap left for this purpose in the churchyard wall to Bescar Chapel (razed). In Memoriam Roman Catholic Church Of St Elizabeth Scarisbrick
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