Manor of Hunningham
Hunningham is a medieval manor located in the West Midlands (region) of Warwickshire, England.
The River Leam – located on Hellidon Hill in Northamptonshire, which then flows through rural Warwickshire, including the town of Leamington Spa – forms the Manor boundary between north and west.
The history of the Manor of Hunningham is of great interest because it has been documented continuously for a thousand years, from the time of the Domesday Book to the present day.
However, it is assumed that the creation of the Manor of Hunningham dates back to the 9th century, but there are currently no documents to prove this.
He has also inherited many Cantilupe estates including Aston Cantlow in Warwickshire, one of that family's headquarters.
He fought from 1290 in the Scottish, Irish and French wars of King Edward I of England and simultaneously held the offices of seneschal of Gascony and lieutenant of Aquitaine.
He signed and sealed the Letter of the Barons of 1301 to Pope Boniface VIII, to protest against papal interference in Scottish affairs.
He served in the First War of Scottish Independence under Edward II of England and was also governor of Kenilworth Castle.
He was the son of Sir William Trussell, an English politician and rebel leader in Queen Isabella and Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March's rebellion against Edward II.
[12] In 1353 Isabel wife of Walter de Cokesey, owned the lordship of the Manor of Hunningham.
[24] In 1605 she married Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick, was an English colonial administrator, admiral, and Puritan, who commanded the Parliamentarian navy during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
In August 1619, one of the privateer ships sponsored by the Earl, the White Lion, delivered the first enslaved Africans to colonial Virginia.
The ship, flying a Dutch flag, landed at what is now Hampton, Virginia with approximately 20 African captives from the present-day Angola.
[28] During the early part of the seventeenth century, the lordship of Hunningham passed from Thomas Gibbes to John Woodward.
George Fane married Dorothy Horsey and became Lord of the Manor of Hunningham, as evidenced by the interesting manuscripts of Stoneleigh Abbey at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust registration office in Stratford on Avon.
In 1640, Fane was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Callington in Cornwall, a seat controlled by the Rolle family of Heanton Satchville, Petrockstowe.
The 4th Baron was born in 1713 and in 1736 he married Maria Craven, with whom he had four children, however Lady Leigh died in 1746.
In 1747 Thomas Leigh remarried, this time to Catherine Berkeley, but died shortly thereafter at the age of 36 years, without having other children.
He was very interested in the politics and social issues of the time and took part in debates in the House of Lords, where he could put some of his ideas into practice.
However, although he had shown an interest in liberal politics, he was rarely in the House of Lords but preferred to remain in Warwickshire, where he was a magistrate.
This Baron Leigh, along with his younger brother Edward, inherited his father's interest in politics.
Edward was an adviser to the Speaker of the House of Commons from 1883 to 1907 and William ran as a Liberal candidate for North Warwickshire in 1847.
He was High Superintendent of Sutton Coldfield from 1859 until 1892, when the government ended after a new statute was issued for the district, but was reappointed in September 1902.
He donated the land for the construction of St Alban's Church, Holborn, in central London.
The end is leaning against the angular buttresses and is illuminated by a simple openwork window with two pointed arched lights.
The west tympanum of the nave is the most interesting and unaltered part and is built with rubble of red sandstone with ashlar coverings.
Observation following the removal of two sections of pews and raised flooring on the south half of the nave revealed load-bearing dwarf brick walls.
The joists of the eastern section were oak, original and probably contemporary to the late 19th century, black and red tiled passages between the pews.
