Houghton Hall, East Riding of Yorkshire

Houghton Hall, Sancton, near Market Weighton, is a Grade I listed[1] Georgian country mansion in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, set in an estate of 7,800 acres (32 km2).

Marmaduke was knighted by King Charles I in 1628, appointed Sheriff of Yorkshire for 1639–40 and became a devoted royalist during the Civil War, during which he fought at the Battle of Marston Moor and at Naseby.

On the defeat of the royalist cause, he fled to the continent, where he contacted the future King Charles II and was made by him 1st Baron Langdale "of Holme" in 1658.

Charles Stourton, MP and campaigner for Catholic Emancipation, who assumed by royal licence the surname and arms of Langdale in accordance with the terms of the bequest.

Philip died in 1868 and was succeeded by his eldest son, Charles Joseph Langdale (1822–1895), who had married an Irish heiress and chose to live in Ireland.

[16] On Philip's death in 1950, Houghton passed to his eldest daughter Joyce Elizabeth Mary Langdale (1898 – June 1995), then the wife of Henry FitzAlan-Howard, 2nd Viscount FitzAlan of Derwent (1883–1962), from whom she was divorced in 1955 and re-married in 1956 to Thomas Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 10th Earl Fitzwilliam (1904–1979).

Joyce Langdale had no male progeny and gave Houghton to her nephew Rupert Watson, 3rd Baron Manton (1924–2003), only son of her younger sister Alethea Alys Mary Pauline Langdale, wife of (George) Miles Watson, 2nd Baron Manton (1899–1968), of Compton Verney, Warwickshire, later of Plumpton Place in Sussex.