Farnley Hall, North Yorkshire

After his death in 1786, Farnley Hall was inherited by distant relative Walter Hawkesworth of Hawksworth Hall, who adopted the surname Fawkes by royal licence and commissioned John Carr to build the new range alongside the old.

[4] During his tenure a regular visitor was the Victorian artist and philosopher John Ruskin, who was taken with the enormous collection of paintings by J. M. W. Turner, a close friend of the Ramsden Fawkes.

[5] Ramsden Fawkes owned over 250 Turner watercolours and six large oil paintings.

[6] A selection of Turner's works from the Farnley Hall collection were sold in 1890 for £25,000.

[7] Frederick Hawksworth Fawkes of Farnley Hall was High Sheriff for 1932.