The family of Sir John, a Groom of the Bedchamber to the Prince of Wales (later King George III), was originally from Heytesbury, Wiltshire.

After the 7th Baronet's death, she married Baron Friedrich von Zandt, who owned Schloss Seehof at Bamburg and was chamberlain to the King of Bavaria.

[2] Upon Baroness von Zandt's death in 1864, Westhope and all Dyer lands in Shropshire, were left to Capt.

[3] The manor house was designed by English architect Guy Dawber, known for working in the late Arts and Crafts style.

Dawber exhibited "two sets of drawings at the Royal Academy in 1902, shortly after its completion, on a virgin site.