The Northampton Mercury Friday 10 February 1899
SALE OF THE HORTON ESTATE £90,000
We learn officially from Messrs. Knight, Frank, and
Rutley, of 9 and 10, Conduit-street, London, that
the well-known Horton Estate, near Northampton,
formerly the seat of Sir Robert Henry Gunning, Bart.,
has just been sold by them for a sum approaching
£90,000. The estate, curtailed by the sale ten years
ago of Quinton Manor Farm, containing five hundred
acres, to Mr. Owen Gumbly, for £15,600, consists of
about 3,300 acres. It was successively possessed four
hundred years ago by William Salisbury, who was suc-
ceeded by his daughter Mary, wife of Sir William Parr,
and consequently aunt of Queen Catherine, the sixth
and last wife of Henry VIII. This Sir William became
Lord Parr of Horton. From him it passed to one of
the Lanes of Orlingbury, and from the Lanes to Sir
Henry Montague, Chief Justice of the King's Bench,
and Lord High Treasurer, of England. The Earl of
Halifax, a member of the Montague family, friend and
patron of Doddridge, in time became the owner. Then
the Gunnings possessed it, and after that it was
purchased by Mr. Pickering Phipps. The pre-
sent mansion was erected by one of the Earls. It
is a spacious building of much beauty. The portico,
supported by six lofty pillars, display some excellent
carvings. In the beautiful park are the building formerly
used as a menagerie, and two temples supported by
ornamental pillars. The entrances to the park are
very beautiful. The purchaser, we understand, is Mr.
G. Harold Winterbottom, formerly the head of the
important bookbinders’ cloth and tracing cloth manu-
facturing firm of Archibald Winterbottom and Son,
now a limited liability company, Manchester.
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