Sir Richard Newdigate, 3rd Baronet

[1] He was the eldest of two sons and seven daughters born to Sir Richard Newdigate, 2nd Baronet and Mary Bagot.

[7] Coal was found on the Arbury estate in the early 1700s and he introduced Newcomen atmospheric engines in 1716.

[3] Together, they were the parents of at least eleven children, including:[9] Sir Richard died at Arbury on 22 July 1727 and was buried at St Mary the Virgin Church, Harefield, of which his family was patron.

Arbury Hall and Harefield passed to Francis Parker of Kirk Hallam, Derbyshire, a distant cousin of the 5th Baronet, who then adopted the additional name of Newdigate.

Francis moved into Arbury Hall and married Lady Barbara Maria Legge (a daughter of the 3rd Earl of Dartmouth), in 1820.