Sandywell Park is an Jacobean Georgian manor house, five miles east of Cheltenham in Gloucestershire, England.

In the mid-eighteenth century the Sandywell Park estate acquired the Whittington Court building.

He was a witty and charming companion, welcomed by the theatrical and literary celebrities whose society he sought.”[4] He became a politician and one of his close friends made the following observation about the reason for this career.

He said: “As he had an uncommon share of social wit, and was a handsome person, with a sanguine bloom in his complexion, no wonder they persuaded him that he might have a better chance of fortune by throwing such accomplishments into the gayer world (of politics) than by shutting them up in a study.”[5] In 1701 he married Anne Mason the daughter of Sir Richard Mason of Bishop's Castle.

An engraving of his estate was made in about 1712 showing the elaborate gardens and house which at that time did not have the two wings.

He constructed the north and south wings to the building and added the adjoining Whittington Court property to the Sandywell estate.

[6] He was a wealthy landowner who also owned the stately home called Ragley Hall in Warwickshire.

She did not leave a will so after prolonged court cases her enormous fortune was left in 1806 to three sisters from the Timbrell family who were her distant relatives.

Judith, Patience and Rebecca Timbrell lived at Sandywell Park until 1823 when the last sister died.

From about 1847 he Sandywell Park to doctors who used it as a sanitorium until 1883 when the Lawrence family returned to live in the house.

The 1939 Census records the couple living at Sandywell Park with eleven servants including a butler and footman.

His obituary describes him as “a celebrated big game hunter, racehorse owner, fisherman and master of hounds.