The manor was once owned by an eccentric Englishman, Sir Robert Walker, Bt.
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In 2002 Sir Derek Bibby, 2nd baronet, and great-great-grandson of the founder and past chairman and president of the firm, was aged 80 and terminally ill with leukemia.