Lewis Disney Fytche

He changed his name, to Lewis Disney Fytche (ffytche), by Royal Sign Manual eleven days later, for reasons connected with property holdings.

[15] In 1782 Fytche brought a court case over the Essex church living of Woodham Walter, in the gift of his wife and vacant by the death of Foote Gower, and his conditional presentation to it of John Eyre, against Robert Lowth as the Bishop of London.

Technically the legal action was a quare impedit, and Lowth was represented by Richard Burn.

John Disney asked his brother to accept a nominee, Peter Fisher who was then chaplain to Elizabeth, Dowager Countess of Westmorland (later incumbent at Staindrop), for John Lee, a fellow Honest Whig and supporter of Essex Street Chapel.

[24][25][26] Timothy Cunningham published a work The Law of Simony (1784) dealing with the legal debate.

[28][29] Fytche began to dispose of property; in 1789 he sold Flintham Hall, to Thomas Thoroton.

The political situation in France then shortly made his own position uncertain, and his property was considered that of an "enemy alien".

He left for Switzerland, and the Désert de Retz was confiscated by the French revolutionary state: this was despite unavailing legal precautions, and a passport of March 1793 from the Convention.

[40] In 1801 he sold his estate Danbury Place to his son-in-law, and lived in Jermyn Street, London.

[45] Lady Hillary, divorced from her husband by 1812, continued to live at Danbury Place until her father died, when she moved to Boulogne.