George Frederick Stratton

He was the elder son of George Stratton, a nabob who purchased Tew Park in Oxfordshire, and his wife Hester Eleanor Light.

He then in 1803 stood at Coventry, as a supporter of William Pitt the Younger, at a by-election, spent heavily, but was defeated.

[7] He received an honorary degree from the University of Oxford in 1806, and served as High Sheriff of Oxfordshire for 1806–7.

[8] He undertook an experiment in convertible husbandry on the Great Tew estate with John Claudius Loudon, from about 1808.

[9] Loudon had published a pamphlet that year on increasing the income from estates, and Stratton leased Tew Lodge Farm to him.

[4] In 1819 Charles Powell Hamilton sued Stratton in the court of King's Bench to recover money invested in a yellow fever remedy.

[13] In 1832, as a local patron of the British and Foreign Bible Society, Stratton's address was Bourton on the Water, Gloucestershire.

[2] When Stratton left for America to escape his debts, leaving his wife and mother, the residence Park Hall and contents were put up for sale.