Barton Hall Hotel, Barton Seagrave

At this time the owner of the property would have been William Humphrey (died 1591) and his wife Jane Lynne.

He also owned land in Swepstone and the church there contains his tomb with his effigy dressed as a knight which is shown.

The couple had twelve children of whom John was the eldest and Charles Bridges, the painter the youngest.

When he died in 1712 his eldest son John Bridges (1666-1724) inherited Barton Hall.

He personally made a circuit of the county and employed several people to make drawings, collect information, and transcribe monuments and records.

The couple had no children so when John died in 1741[4] he left Barton Hall to Margaretta and after her death to his relatives.

[7] In 1793 Charles asked the famous landscaper Humphry Repton to redesign the garden close to the Hall.

As he predeceased his father, Barton Hall was left to his daughter Mary when Charles died in 1830.

In 1849 three years after Samuel’s death Viscountess Hood married George Hall (1801-1854) who was a doctor.

She married thirdly John Borlasse Maunsell in 1858, a retired army officer who changed his surname to Tibbits by Royal Licence that same year.