Obituary – Earl of Yarborough – Conisborough Interests – Life Tenant of Castle (picture)

July 1936

Mexborough and Swinton Times July 17, 1936

Obituary
The Earl of Yarborough
Important Conisborough Interests
Life Tenant of Castle

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Picture by Leslie Ward – Published in Vanity Fair, 2 January 1896, as “Statesmen” Number 661.Downloaded from http://www.theakston-thomas.co.uk/acatalog/02011896%20Brockelsby.jpg, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.or/w/index.php?curid=12360570

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

South Yorkshire will share in the general grief which had been occasioned through the country by the death of Lord Yarborough, which took place at a London hotel on Sunday.

Lord Yarborough, was one of the most munificent landlord, was known in this area as a life tenant of ConisboroughCastle and owner of the agricultural land in the vicinity. He was Lord of several of the local manors, including Whitfield, Barnsley, Conisborough and Braithwell.

At the time of his death he was 77 years of age and have been in indifferent health for some time. The Counters of Yarborough, Baroness Fauconberg and Conyers in her own right, died nine years ago.

Lord Conyers, a second son, is the hair, the eldest son, Lord Worsley, having been killed in action in 1914.

A tribute to Lord Yarborough for his services in Lincolnshire was made last year when he was created a Knight of the Garter. Among the offices he held in the county were Lord Lt Vice Admiral, County Alderman, Chairman of the Quarter session, Provincial Grand Master of Freemasons, President of the Lincolnshire Agricultural Society, Colonel of the Imperial Yeomanry, and Honourable Colonel of the Militia. He was a generous donor to the Grimsby, Scunthorpe and Lincoln Hospital.

Not only was he esteemed as a great huntsman but as a kindly unsympathetic landlord. It will be in the latter respect that the tenantry of his 50,000 acre estate will think of him. No reasonable appeal to him was overturned out. One recent example the generosity is that when conditions were looking brighter in agriculture gave local farmers a rebate of 25% already.

Service at Conisborough

Many of Earl Yarborough’s tenantry at Conisbrough, conisborough Fat and the present ConisboroughParish Church yesterday afternoon at a memorial service for the late Earl of Yarborough. They were joined by tenantry from his Lordship’s Waleswood and Kiveton Park estates and by local civic and industrial representatives.