His eldest son and heir was Arthur Charles Edward Locke, of Northmoor, who sold Grange[5] which thus in 1903 passed from the ownership of the Drewe family and its descendants.
[6] John Locke built nearby the "Northmoor Chapel" (burned down in 1900) to service the spiritual needs of the estate, and employed Rev.
He was a director of W. D. & H. O. Wills, which later merged into the Imperial Tobacco Company, and was a Liberal Unionist Member of Parliament for Bristol North.
In 1929 his son Sir Gilbert Wills, 2nd Baronet was raised to the peerage as Baron Dulverton "of Batsford in the County of Gloucester".
[12] In 1926 Northmoor was purchased by Colonel Edward Clayton whose son lived there until 1994 when he sold the main house and 100 acres and moved to nearby Kennel Barn, where he established a business making all-terrain Supercat vehicles.