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unusual facts about Sir Thomas Gascoigne, 8th Baronet



Arthur Benoni Evans

The Bishop of Lincoln, John Kaye, appointed Evans since in 1829 the 8th Baronet was only a child of 13.

Sir Charles Turner, 1st Baronet, of Kirkleatham

His widow remarried Sir Thomas Gascoigne, 8th Baronet of Parlington Hall, Aberford and their daughter Mary inherited the Gascoigne's Parlington estate.

Sir Thomas Gascoigne, 2nd Baronet

He died in 1686 at Lambspring monastery in Hanover, of which his brother John, who died in 1681, had been Abbot.

Sir Thomas Gascoigne, 8th Baronet

He was a keen breeder and trainer of horses and with Sir Thomas Stapleton won the St. Leger Stakes in 1778 with Hollandoise.

He supported the cause of American Independence and built a commemorative arch to the American Victory in the War of Independence, thought to be modelled on the Arch of Constantine in Rome, at the entrance to his Parlington Hall estate.


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