The eagle lectern dates from 1909, and was given in memory of members of the Shafto family killed in the Boer War.
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John's son Robert Shafto (1732-1797) was a politician known famously as 'Bobby Shafto'.
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William's nephew George Shafto (later George Shafto Delaval) married a daughter of George Delaval of North Dissington and sister of Admiral George Delaval.
It became home to a branch of the Shafto family of Bavington Hall until the 1770s, when it was sold by Robert Shafto (the son of Bobby Shafto, immortalised in the song of the same name).
The park includes Whitworth Hall, a Grade II listed stately mansion (the ancestral home of Bobby Shafto an 18th century MP) hotel, deer park, lake and Shafto's Inn.
Two sons of Mark Shafto junior represented Durham City in Parliament: Robert Shafto 1712/3 and 1727/30 and John Shafto 1729-42.