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7 unusual facts about Boughton


Christopher Hatton, 1st Baron Hatton

He married at Hackney, Middlesex, on 8 May 1630, Elizabeth (died 1672), eldest daughter and coheiress of Sir Charles Montagu, of Boughton, Northamptonshire.

Edward Montagu, 2nd Baron Montagu of Boughton

After the Restoration he resided chiefly at Boughton, died on 10 January 1684, and was buried at Weekley.

John Manners, 1st Duke of Rutland

John Manners, 1st Duke of Rutland and 9th Earl of Rutland (Boughton, 29 May 1638 – 10 January 1711, Belvoir Castle) was the son of John Manners, 8th Earl of Rutland and Frances Montagu.

John Montagu, Marquess of Monthermer

One of the Montagu family titles was revived in the person of Lord Brudenell when he was created Baron Montagu, of Boughton in the county of Northampton, on 8 May 1762.

Sidney Montagu

Montagu was the son of Sir Edward Montagu, who was a judge, of Boughton, Northamptonshire and grandson of Sir Edward Montagu.

Thomas Charles

In 1800, when a frostbitten thumb gave him great pain and much fear for his life, his friend, Rev. Philip Oliver of Chester, died, leaving him director and one of three trustees over his chapel at Boughton; and this added much to his anxiety.

Trolleybuses in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire

Three of the former Notts & Derby system trolleybuses are now preserved, one of them at Bournemouth Heritage Transport, Parkstone, Dorset, and the other two in a private collection in Boughton, Nottinghamshire.


Bilton Hall

The house was generally occupied by junior members of the Boughton family and was sold by Edward Boughton in 1711 to the essayist and poet Joseph Addison, who wrote his book Evidences of Christianity while living there.

Burrington, Herefordshire

The cost of rebuilding the nave was borne entirely by the local landowner, Mr A. Boughton-Knight of Downton Castle, while that of the chancel was met by the Vicar and a number of subscribers.

Chapel Brampton

A new build on the site of the former Boughton cold store is named The Windhover after an old name for the Kestrel.

Earl Coningsby

The character of Lady Jane Coningsby in the children's mystery novels, the Lady Grace Mysteries, is probably based on Jane, the daughter of Humphrey Coningsby (1516-1559) of Hampton Court in Herefordshire and his wife, Anne, sister of Sir Francis Englefield of Englefield House in Berkshire; and eventual wife of William Boughton (1543-1596) of Little Lawford at Newbold-on-Avon in Warwickshire.

Enoch Storer

In 1863 he played for Boughton and in 1864 spent a year at Exeter College, Oxford.

Linpark High School

Linpark High School is a co-educational public boarding school situated on Claude Forsyth Rd, in Boughton, a northern suburb of Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

Richard Norwood

In 1622 Norwood married, in London, Rachel, daughter of Francis Boughton of Sandwich.

Sir Theodosius Boughton

Sir Theodosius Edward Allesley Boughton (b. 1760 d. 30 August 1780) was the 7th Boughton baronet of Lawford who died in questionable circumstances.

The Immortal Hour

The Immortal Hour was first performed in Glastonbury on 26 August 1914, at the inaugural Glastonbury Festival which Boughton co-founded.


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