Arthur Heywood-Lonsdale

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Arthur Pemberton Heywood-Lonsdale (9 January 1835 – 24 February 1897) was an English

High Sheriff of two counties and a substantial investor in North Vancouver
.

Lonsdale was the son of Rev. Henry Gylby Lonsdale and his wife Anna Maria Heywood. He was the nephew of John Lonsdale, Bishop of Lichfield. Lonsdale was educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated as B.A. in 1858.[1]

He rowed at Oxford and was in the

Silver Goblets at Henley Royal Regatta.[2] In 1858 the pair lost in the final of Silver Goblets to Herbert Playford and A. A. Casamajor
.

Lonsdale studied law at

With another relation James Pemberton Fell, Heywood-Lonsdale made substantial investments in the

Shropshire County Council in 1889 he served on it as an alderman and as its vice chairman.[9]

Lonsdale married, in Ackworth Church on 28 January 1863, Frances Elizabeth Neilson, of Hundhill. His uncle, the Bishop of Lichfield, officiated.[10] Arthur died in February 1897 aged 62, his widow died at Cloverley, Whitchurch, Shropshire, on 14 April 1902, aged 59.[11] Their son Henry Heywood-Lonsdale inherited the estate. Another son John Heywood-Lonsdale coxed Oxford in the Boat Race from 1889 to 1892.

His great-granddaughter Amanda Heywood-Lonsdale is the Duchess of Devonshire, married to Peregrine Cavendish, 12th Duke of Devonshire.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Foster, Joseph (1888). Alumni Oxonienses, 1715-1886, Volume II. Parker and Company. p. 872.
  2. ^ Henley Royal Regatta Results of Final Races 1839–1939 Archived 9 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Ireland Old News 1877
  4. ^ New Zealand Papers Past – Evening Post 1877
  5. .
  6. ^ Canada North Shore News
  7. ^ Stanley Leighton Shropshire Houses:past and present 1901
  8. ^ "No. 25798". The London Gazette. 20 March 1888. p. 1696.
  9. ^ Burke's Landed Gentry, 1952. Burke's Peerage Ltd. p. 1569.
  10. ^ Parochial History of Ackworth Yorkshire
  11. ^ "Deaths". The Times. No. 36743. London. 16 April 1902. p. 1.
Honorary titles
Preceded by High Sheriff of Shropshire
1888
Succeeded by
John Tayleur, of Buntingsdale, Market Drayton