Nicholas Leke, 4th Earl of Scarsdale

In 1724 Leke asked the Warwick architect Francis Smith to transform the ancestral home at Sutton Scarsdale to a Georgian style that would rival houses such as Chatsworth House.

[3] Smith employed the best craftspeople including Francesco Vassalli, the Atari brothers and Robert Adam.

Three of the panelled rooms are now in an American museum whilst the ruins of the building are still there in 2009 as a monument to their ideas.

[5] Leke died unmarried and the earldom became extinct.

Although unmarried, he fathered three children by Madame Margaret Seymour of Yaxley.