Hopwell Hall

Their eldest son Thomas Pares II (1746-1824) was a wealthy lawyer and banker in London, who owned numerous properties including Narborough Hall and Greyfriars, Leicester.

His eldest son Thomas Pares III (1790-1866) was a lawyer and MP for Leicester from 1818 until 1826 and he inherited Hopwell Hall.

[3][4][5] In 1921 Cecil Henry Pares gave Hopwell Hall and 15 acres of its land to Nottinghamshire County Council as a special residential school for boys.

He had inherited the estate after his elder brother Lieutenant Thomas Edward Pares was killed in action in 1917 during World War I. Cecil chose to live at the family's home at Calvi in Corsica, rather than at Hopwell Hall.

[2] The archive of documents from the Pares family and the Hopwell Hall estate was donated to the Derbyshire Record Office in 2000.