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Ormathwaite Estate Records,
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Ormathwaite (BRA Group),

Deeds and documents received from Farrer & Co. of Lincolns Inn Fields, London, solicitors, per the British Records Association (parcel 2749) in October 1999 (NLW acc. no. C1999/12). These papers are supplemental to the Ormathwaite Papers, and mainly relate to the marriage settlement, mortgages, bankruptcy, receivership and executorship of Arthur Henry John Walsh (1859-1937), third baron Ormathwaite. The papers were accumulated by partners of Farrer & Co. who acted for Marquis Camden, Ormathwaite’s brother-in-law and main creditor, as well as acting as Ormathwaite’s estate receiver after his bankruptcy, and acting for his executors after his death. Included are papers relating to estates in Radnorshire, the Warfield Park estate (Bracknell, Berkshire), the Ormathwaite Hall estate (Keswick, Cumberland) and various freehold and leasehold properties in London and Middlesex, as well as a very few papers relating to the unsaleable remnants of an Irish estate (Counties Cork and Kerry). For a history of the estate, see the introduction to the schedule to the NLW, Ormathwaite Papers, pp. i-xi.

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Draft deeds,

Original bundle of draft deeds relating to the letting of the keeper’s cottage called Newhouse in p. Gladestry and the sporting rights over Lord Ormathwaite’s Gladestry estate in p's Colfa, Gladestry, Glascgwm, Llanfihangel Nant Melan and Old Radnor, all co. Rad. (schedule of the holdings, tenants and acreages, 4,447a. in all). The cottage and the rights were let to John Morgan Thomas of the Royal Oak Hotel, Leominster, Herefordshire, hotel proprietor for five years in 1924, surrendered by him in 1925, and re-let in 1926 to Charles Thomas Jones, retired major, and Rhys John Jones, esq., both of Tynewydd, Cwm-du, Breconshire.

Requisitions on title,

Original bundle of requisitions on title relating to the sale by Lord Ormathwaite of premises in the Radnorshire estate, including in p's Colfa and Glascwm, including The Bailey, Bronllys, The Cloggy, Cwmkesti, an allotment on Llandeglau Rhos, part of Penllan Farm, and Rhos Swydd cottage and lands, and including lots 1-7, 11-12, 17, 19-23, 27-28, 30-32 and 35-36.

Draft conveyances,

Original bundle of draft and copy draft conveyances by Arthur Henry John, baron Ormathwaite of Warfield Park, Berkshire, and Gerald Walsh of Burton Hill Close, Leicestershire and the Public Trustee (his trustees), of properties in p's Betws-Disserth (17 properties), Cefnllys, Colfa, Gladestry, Glascwm, Llanbadarn Fawr, Llanbister, Llandeglau, Llandrindod, Llanddewi Ystradenni, Llanfihangel Nant Melan, Llanfihangel Rhydeithon and Llangynllo, all co. Rad., and p. Huntington, in Herefordshire. The sales were sold under a Chancery order dated 19 Jan. 1921, reference 1920 W.3724. Several of the deeds are endorsed with a lot number, being lots 2-7, 9-11, 13, 17, 19-24, 27-28, 30-33, 36 and 70.

Deeds and documents,

A six-inch Ordnance Survey map, Radnorshire XVI NE (second edition, 1904), and three undated plans, of Rhos Swydd, Canoldre House and Liverpool House, have been tranferred to the Department of Pictures and Maps (acc. nos 0200008303, 8307, 8311 and 8321). The last two plans were drawn by Addie & Son of Shrewsbury, and are only assumed to relate to Radnorshire.

Contracts for sale,

Original bundle of contracts for sale of (among others) lots 1-7, 9-17, 19-24, 27-28, 30-33 and 35-36 in p's Cefnllys, Colfa, Glascwm, Llanbadarn Fawr, Llanbister, Llandeglau, Llandrindod, Llanddewi Ystradenni, Llanfihangel Nant Melan, Llanfihangel Rhydeithon and Llangynllo in Radnorshire and p. Huntington in Herefordshire. Each of the deeds contains a plan.

Loose papers,

Loose papers, including relating to a property in Princes Street, p. St George-in-the-east, 1868, 22 Cadogan Square, Chelsea, 1891-1894, properties in Redmead Lane and Sampsons Gardens, Wapping, 1912-1914, and 35 Inglis Road, Ealing, Middlesex, 1934-1937.

Deeds and documents relating to 40 Lowndes Street,

Original bundle of deeds (mainly copies and drafts) and documents relating to 40 Lowndes Street, p. St George Hanover Square, Middlesex. In 1843 the parcel of land was let by William Lowndes of Cheshunt, Buckinghamshire, esq., to William Turton Newton and John Kelk of Cavendish Square, builders, for 86 years. The following year they sold the house that they had built to Henry William Barnard, lieutenant-colonel in the 1st Regiment of Grenadier Guards. After divers assignments of the residue of the term of years (including the will of Rev. William Midleton Snell, dated 1881, proved 1899), the lease was bought by Lord Ormathwaite in 1920. Lord Ormathwaite then spent £1,875 re-decorating the house.

Irish estate,

According to the schedule to the 1888 Montague mortgage (see W 2), the Ormathwaite estates included properties in Ballygroman, Classis, Coolaclarig, Fergus, Grange and Knockane, Co. Cork, and in Ballydubrig, Ballyhaurigan, Ballyrehan, Cloggercannon, Clonsillagh, Derirehand, Derrimlaught, Derrindaff, Derriorin, Forehan, Fullamore, Gortshannavor, Inchinagulleragh, Lessihane, Kiltean, Killaridd, Knockburrane and Pouldelly, Co. Kerry. The schedule includes the names of the tenants in 1858. Ormathwaite appears to have sold his estate at Ballygroman Lower, Fergus and Grange, all in the barony of Muskerry East, Co. Cork, in 1912, with some at least of the purchase money coming from the Land Purchase Aid Fund under the Irish Land Act 1903. The estate in Co. Kerry appears to have been sold in 1913, when Ormathwaite was credited by the Irish Land Commission with £38,743 2¾% stock and £896 3% stock. Some Irish stock had later to be sold, as it was considered an unauthorised holding by the (British) Public Trustee. A set of observations and answers to the Estate Duty Office of the (British) Inland Revenue, 1922, includes “it [the real estate in Ireland] has all been sold except a few unsaleable holdings value at say £150. All southern Ireland”, and an Irish Free State probate of Ormathwaite’s will (F 5/4) certifies that his estate in the Irish Free State amounted to £71.

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