Robert Henley, 2nd Baron Henley (1789–1841), British lawyer and Member of Parliament
Born Robert Henley, he assumed the additional surname of Ongley as heir of his great-uncle, Sir Samuel Ongley, of Old Warden, Bedfordshire.
The delay in raising him to the peerage was due to the hostility of George II, who resented Henley's former support of the Prince of Wales's faction, known as the Leicester House party; and it was in order that he might preside as Lord High Steward at the trial of the Earl Ferrers for murder in 1760 that he then received his patent.
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1764: Robert Henley, 1st Earl of Northington (1708–1772) commissioned Robert Adam to design a kitchen block and an entrance bridge.
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1787: The second Earl died childless and his sisters sold the house to the Drummond banking family.
Born Robert Henley, he assumed the additional surname of Ongley as heir of his great-uncle Sir Samuel Ongley, of Old Warden, Bedfordshire.