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Sir Hervey Elwes, 2nd Baronet (c. 1683–1763), of Stoke-by-Clare, Suffolk, was a British landowner and Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1706 and 1722. He had the reputation of being an extreme miser.
- The Beginning
- Cary Elwes (1718 – 1772): Landowner and Landlord
- John Meggott (1714 – 1789): Scrooge?
- Valentine Cary Elwes (1832-1908): A Catholic Conversion
- Gervase Elwes (1866 – 1921): The Singer
- Lady Winefride Elwes, Nee Feilding
- Gervase and Winefride Elwes: The Brigg Music Festival
- Gervase Elwes: His Legacy
- Dudley Cary Elwes (1868 – 1932): Bishop
- Lt. Col. Simon Elwes
This exhibition looks at the history of the Elwes Family and their impact on the local area. Discover what it was like to have Cary Elwes as your landlord. What impact did Valentine Elwes’s conversion to Catholicism have on Brigg? Learn about the legacy left by Gervase Elwes, the famous singer. In 1674 Jeremy Elwes bought the Tyrwhitt estates of Wr...
Cary Elwes began to develop the family estates after inheriting in 1752. He saw great potential for Brigg, situated as it was on both the River Ancholme and the turnpike road between Lincoln and Barton. Cary rebuilt the estate’s traditional mud and brick housing in brick and tile. He added a ‘party wall’ between every two residences. This wall was ...
John Meggott changed his surname to Elwes in 1751. This was so he could inherit the estates and fortune of his uncle, Sir Harvey Elwes. He became MP for Berkshire in 1772, a post he held until he retired in 1784. He spent 18 pence on his election campaign. John was so scared of losing his fortune that he survived on about £50 a year, or around £700...
In 1865 Valentine Cary Elwes married his second wife Alice Ward. The couple moved into the Manor House at Brigg in 1869. They had three children, Gervase, Dudley and Maud. Valentine played a big part in the local community. He campaigned to have a national school built in Brigg. He also developed the water supply granted by his father and was the p...
Gervase Elwes was born in 1866 at Billing Hall, Northampton. In 1889 he married Lady Winefride Feilding, daughter of the 8thEarl of Denbigh. Gervase trained as a lawyer and diplomat. The couple spent several years in Brussels before returning to England. Between 1890 and 1904 they had eight children. The family spent their time between the Manor Ho...
Winefride was the daughter of Mary Berkeley and Rudolph Feilding, the 8th Earl of Denbigh. Winefride married Gervase Elwes in 1889, and they had eight children together. She was National President for the Catholic Women’s League for several years. It was through her support that Gervase was able to have such a successful singing career.
In the early 1900s Gervase and Winefride started an annual Musical Competition Festival. The festival was to be in Brigg. Gervase visited local schools and village choirs to conduct practices. The choirs took part in an afternoon concert for children and an evening concert for adults. In 1905 the composer Percy Grainger asked Gervase to include a f...
Tragically, Gervase died on 12 January 1921 in Boston whilst touring America. After leaving a train Gervase realised he had accidently taken another man’s coat. As he ran along the platform to return it he slipped under a train and was killed. Upon hearing of his death Elgar wrote to Percy Hull, the organist and composer, “My personal loss is great...
Dudley was the brother of Gervase Elwes. He was ordained into the priesthood in 1896 at the age of 28. In 1921 he was appointed Bishop of Northampton, in which role he served until his death in 1932.
Simon was the sixth son of Gervase and Winefride. He was a famous war artist and portrait painter. He painted many members of the royal family and was a favourite of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother. In 1933 Simon was elected a member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. He suffered a stroke in 1945 which paralysed the right-hand side of his ...
Sir Harvey left to her son, John Meggot, the whole of his vast possessions, which were then estimated at two hundred and fifty thousand pounds; and he directed that his nephew was thereupon to assume the name and arms of the Elwes'.
Elwes succeeded to his grandfather’s parliamentary seat at Sudbury, but in other respects his inheritance was a disappointment. Although he was ‘nominally possessed of some thousands a year’, the family property proved so heavily encumbered that at first it yielded only £100.
Some sources, however, record a fourth Baronet, Sir Henry Elwes, who was believed to be the younger brother of the third Baronet. He died without heirs in 1787, at which point the baronetcy likely became extinct. [4] According to the Standing Council of the Baronetage, the Elwes baronetcy is not among the vacant or dormant baronetcies. [5]
Mar 17, 2022 · Cary Elwes actually suffered from two different injuries during production, including one that happened while shooting a scene and ended up in the movie.
In 1975, when Elwes was 13, his father died by suicide. [18] He was educated at Harrow School, [11] and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. [19] In 1981, he moved to the United States to study acting at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York. [20]
