Aston Hall, Yorkshire

[1][3] The Verelst family owned the Hall and most of the original Aston estate for around 150 years.

[1][4] Harry Verelst had been Governor of Bengal from 1767 to 1769, and returned to England in 1770, marrying in 1771 Ann Wordsworth, with whom he had ten children.

He spent heavily on acquiring from Holderness the Aston estate, as well as the house, causing him later financial problems when his assets in Bengal could not be repatriated.

It was the setting of a celebrated house party in 1813, with its flirtation between his wife, Frances Webster, and Lord Byron.

[9][10][11] Charles' eldest son, Harry Verelst, an amateur first class cricketer, died at the Hall in April 1918.

[12][13] At one period, the house was known as Aughton Court, referring to the building with later additions on the site,[1] around 1872.