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3 unusual facts about Baron Hatherton


Anna Brownell Jameson

Anna Murphy was governess to the children of Edward Littleton, later created Baron Hatherton, from 1821 to 1825, when she married Robert Simpson Jameson.

Baron Hatherton

His wealth was based landed estates centred on Penkridge in southern Staffordshire, mines at Great Wyrley and Bloxwich, quarries and sandpits, brick yards and residential housing, mainly in Walsall.

Penkridge railway station

Baron Hatherton allowed to trains run across his land on the condition that two trains a day stopped at Penkridge.



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