His son Thomas, for services to his country, was created Baron Wallace of Knarsdale.

The family also owned Featherstone Castle, and Hodgson described Knarsdale Hall as having declined in importance — a gentleman's place of the 17th century now and for a long time since occupied by the farmer of the adjoining grounds...

Today, however, the stone buildings on top of a high mound dominate the scene and are strongly built.

The church is dedicated to St Jude, and Hodgson saw it in a ruinous condition, with stone lying about.

There is a fine collection of gravestones and one carried a strange inscription, which Hodgson called 'disgraceful doggerel': All you who please these lines to read It will cause a tender heart to bleed: I murdered was upon the fell, And by a man I knew full well; My bread and butter which he'd lade, I, being harmless, was betrayed.

A man with whom he had a quarrel allegedly left a poisoned wrapped sandwich for him, but there was seemingly no inquest to confirm the accusation.