Soughton Hall is a Grade II* listed country house hotel in Sychdyn, Flintshire, Wales.
Notable guests that have stayed include Luciano Pavarotti, Michael Jackson and King Juan Carlos I of Spain.
His family had owned the estate for several generations and he inherited the land when his father John Conway died in 1689.
[6] In 1834 on the death of his father he inherited Kingston Lacy and again he commissioned Charles Barry to make major alternations to this property.
George died in 1856 and Soughton Hall was inherited by his younger brother Reverend Edward Bankes.
[8] In 1869 when they were 22 years old they had their portrait painted by Henry Tanworth Wells who was a well-known English painter of that time.
Frederica married Major John George Skene (later Colonel) of the 77th Regiment of Foot who two years later inherited his father's estate called Lethenty in Scotland.
[11] Emma married her cousin Edward Alexander Cameron who was a civil engineer and the couple lived in a house called “The Towers” in Buxton.
He employed John Douglas who refaced the house in red brick, and redesigned the façade.