Chronological Gazetteer of the works of E.W. Pugin

By GJ Hyland – 11 March 2010          This article is undergoing continual refinement, and is updated periodically.
APPENDIX IV: MEMBERS OF THE PEERAGE AND LANDED GENTRY WHO WERE BENEFACTORS OF EW PUGIN

PEERAGE & BARONETS
  • Duke
    •  William Cavendish (7th Duke of Devonshire) - St Mary in Furness, Barrow-in-Furness.
  • Duchess
    •  Louisa Catherine Osborne (née Caton), Dowager Duchess of Leeds - Holy Trinity Orphanage for Boys, Mayfield, E. Sussex; St Michael's Orphanage for Girls, Rotherfield, E. Sussex; chapel for Convent of the Holy Child Jesus, Mayfield, E. Sussex.
  • Earl
    •  Henry Lowther (3rd Earl of Lonsdale) - St Begh (Bee), Whitehaven.
    •  Henry Beauchamp Lygon (4th Earl Beauchamp) - St Mary the Virgin, Madresfield, Worcs.
    •  Bertram Arthur Talbot (17th Earl of Shrewsbury) - Shrewsbury cathedral.
    •  Isaac Newton Wallop (5th Earl of Portsmouth) - remodelling of Enniscorthy Castle.
    •  Edwin Richard Wyndham-Quin (3rd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl) - Adare Manor, Limerick.
  • Baron
    •  Thomas Pemberton Leigh (1st Baron Kingsdown) - St Catherine, Kingsdown Kent.
    •  William Bernard Petre (12th Baron Petre) - Ss Mary & Ethelburga, Barking, Essex.
    •  Henry Valentine Stafford-Jerningham (9th Baron Stafford) - St Austin, Stafford.
    •  Henry Stapleton (9th Lord Beaumont) - work at Carlton Towers, Selby.
  • Baronet
    •  Sir Henry Page Turner Barron (2nd Bt) - tower and spire for Sacred Heart, Ferrybank, Co. Waterford.
    •  Sir John Esmonde (10th Bt) - Ss Peter & Paul, Kilanerin, Co. Wexford.
    •  Sir Peter Hesketh-Fleetwood (1st Bt) - St Mary, Fleetwood.
    •  Sir James Power (2nd Bt) - chapel at Edermine, Co. Wexford.
    •  Sir Humphrey de Trafford (2nd Bt) - St Ann, Stretford; All Saints, Barton-upon-Irwell.
  • Lady
    •  Lady Rosa Greville-Nugent (daughter of George Nugent, 1st Marquess of Westmeath), and wife of Colonel Fulke Southwell Greville-Nugent, 1st Baron Greville ), of Fore, Co Westmeath, Ireland - restoration of mausoleum.
    •  Tufton (née Lacour), Adelaide Amelie, Lady (wife of Sir Richard Tufton ,1st Bt) - St Teresa of Avila, Ashford.

TITLES OF FOREIGN ORIGIN
  • Baron van Caloen (Belgium) - Kasteel van Loppem, Bruges.
  • Countess Helen Ann Tasker (Papal) - Ss Mary & Ethelburga, Barking, Essex; Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Harwich.
  • Mary Bostock, Countess de Front (Sardinian). Before marrying the Sardinian Ambassador (the Count de Front) Mary Bostock was married to Sir Thomas Fleetwood (6th Bt of Calwich - died 1802), a relative through marriage of Sir Peter Hesketh-Fleetwood (1st Bt of Rossall Hall, loc cit) - Hesketh before 1831. - St Paul, Dover.
  • Jane Charlotte (née Gordon), Baroness Weld (Tuscan). Her first husband, Samuel was granted a barony by the Grand Duke of Tuscany in 1844. - Jesuit church, Oxford; St Joseph's chapel, Southwark cathedral; St Joseph's Convalescent Home, Hanwell, London; memorial chapel, Woolton Hill, Newbury.

LANDED GENTRY
  • Col. William Ince Anderton, of Euxton Hall, Lancs. - St Mary, Euxton, Lancs.
  • Capt. William Michael Ince Anderton, of Euxton Hall, Lancs. - St Mary, Euxton, Lancs.; Euxton Hall chapel.
  • R Biddulph Phillips, of Longworth, Herefords. - Convent of Our Lady of Charity & Refuge, Bartestree, Herefords; presbytery for Longworth chapel near Bartestree and work at the chapel.
  • Anthony John Cliffe, of Bellevue House, Co Wexford, Ireland - estate chapel at Ballyhogue, Co. Wexford.
  • Elizabeth Dalton, of Thurnham Hall, Lancs. - St Anne, Westby. Henry Drummond, of Albury Park, Surrey - Albury almshouses and work at Albury Park, Surrey.
  • George Garstang, of Clayton-le-Woods, Lancs. - St Mary's, Euxton, Lancs.
  • Grace Grace, of Gracefield, Arles, Ireland - Sacred Heart, Arles.
  • Mary Barbara Felicity Hales, of Hales Place, Kent - Carmelite convent church and farm, Hales Place; fittings for Hales Place.
  • John Hubert Washington Hibbert, of Bilton Grange, Warks. - St Marie, Rugby.
  • Ann Hunloke - self-styled Lady Scarisbrick, of Scarisbrick Hall, Lancs. - Poor school, Scarisbrick; work at Scarisbrick Hall; coffin for Lady Scarisbrick.
  • Ambrose Lisle March Phillips De Lisle, of Garendon Park, Leics. - monument in Charnwood Forest; internal alterations and chapel at Garendon Park.
  • James Lomax, of Allsprings, Great Harwood, Lancs. - Our Lady & St Hubert, Great Harwood.
  • John Meagher (Maher) MP, of Ballinkeele House, Ballymurn, Ireland - mortuary chapel, Ballymurn.
  • Maj Thomas Molyneux-Seel, of Huyton Hey, Lancs. - St Agnes, Huyton; Harrington House, Leamington Spa; Seel's Building, Liverpool. Capt Edward Henry & Mrs Mostyn, of Tower House, Arundel. - Ss Henry & Elizabeth, Sheerness.
  • Col. Robert Myddelton-Biddulph, of Chirk Castle. - work on castle and chapel.
  • John Edward Redmond, of Wexford - Ss Peter & Paul, Kilanerin, Co. Wexford.
  • Charles Robert Scott-Murray, MP, of Danesfield House, Berks. - Chapel of St Charles Borromeo, Medmenham, Berks; St Peter's Convent and school, Marlow.
  • John Hyacinth Talbot, MP, of Ballytrent, Co Wexford, Ireland - Church of the Assumption, Our Lady's Island, Co. Wexford.
  • John Francis Tempest, of Ackworth Grange, Pontefract, W. Yorks. - St Gregory, Stratford-upon-Avon.
  • Monica Tempest, of Broughton Hall, Yorks. - Sacred Heart, Blackpool.
  • Col. Charles Towneley, of Towneley Hall, Nr Burnley, Lancs. (Also of Thorneyholme Hall, Whitewell, Lancs.) - Ss Mary & Hubert, Dunsop Bridge, Lancs.
  • John Randolphus de Trafford, of Croston Hall, Lancs. - Holy Cross Chapel and Croston Hall. 
  • William Gerard Walmesley, of Westwood House, Nr Wigan, Lancs. - estate chapel and mortuary chapel.
  • Francis Wegg-Prosser MP, FRAS, of Belmont House, Herefords. - Belmont Abbey and Church; Ss Peter & Paul, Clehonger; extensions and chapel at Belmont House.
  • Thomas Weld-Blundell, of Ince Blundell, Lancs. - St Joseph, Birkdale.
  • Francis Whitgreave, of Burton Manor, Stafford. - St Austin, Stafford; Burton Manor.
  • Sir Thomas Wyse, of St John's Manor, Waterford, Co Waterford, Ireland - manor house.

Many of the old Catholic families, such as Blundell, Howard, Mostyn, Petre, Talbot, Tempest and de Trafford, were inter-related by marriage, as illustrated by the following examples.
  • Julia (née Tichborne), wife of John Hubert Washington Hibbert (loc cit), was the mother (by her first marriage to Lt-Col. Charles Thomas Talbot) of:
    • Bertram Talbot (loc cit) - became 17th Earl of Shrewsbury (loc cit) upon the death of his distant cousin, John Talbot, 16th Earl of Shrewsbury, in 1852. John and Bertram had the same great-grandfather, Hon George Talbot.
    • John Talbot was a grandson of Charles Talbot and his second wife Mary Mostyn, great-aunt of Edward Mostyn (7th Bt) whose first wife was Frances Blundell (of Crosby Hall, Lancs.) Charles was a brother of Francis Jerome Talbot, the father of Julia Tichborne's first husband, Charles Thomas Talbot.
    • Their son Pyers (8th Bt) married Hon. Frances Georgina Fraser whose sister, Hon. Amelia Charlotte, married Charles Scott-Murray (loc cit). Frances and Amelia were daughters of Thomas Alexander Fraser (12th Baron Lovat) and Charlotte Georgina Stafford-Jerningham, sister of Henry Valentine Stafford-Jerningham (9th Baron - loc cit).
    • Pyers Mostyn (8th Bt) was father of Charlotte Mary Barbara who in 1871 became Viscountess Southwell upon her marriage to Thomas Arthur Joseph Southwell (4th Viscount).
    • Another son of the first marriage of Edward Mostyn (7th Bt) was Edward Henry Mostyn (Capt - loc cit).
    • Teresa, daughter of Edward Mostyn (7th Bt) by his second wife, Constantia Slaughter, married Francis Whitgreave (loc cit).

  • Lady Annette Mary Talbot - married Sir Humphrey de Trafford (2nd Bt - loc cit). Humphrey's grandmother was Elizabeth Tempest - wife of John Trafford, whose mother was Frances Dalton of Thurnham, an ancestor of Elizabeth Dalton (loc cit) and aunt of Monica Tempest (loc cit); Monica's mother (also Elizabeth, whose memorial brass was designed by AWN Pugin in 1847) was the second daughter of Henry Blundell of Ince Blundell
    • John Randolphus de Trafford (loc cit) was a brother of Humphrey, and of Jemima de Trafford.
    • Jemima married Henry Tempest (brother of Monica), and their son Charles Henry Tempest (later 1st Bt of Heaton) married Cecilia Elizabeth, one of Julia Tichborne's two daughters by her second husband, John Hubert Washington Hibbert (loc cit).
    • Cecilia's daughter, Ethel Mary, married Miles Stapleton (10th Lord Beaumont), younger brother of EW Pugin's client Henry Stapleton (9th Lord Beaumont - loc cit). Ethel's eldest son, Miles Francis, became the 17th Duke of Norfolk and Earl Marshall of England in 1975, and upon his death in 2002 was succeeded by his son, Edward William Fitzalen-Howard, the present (18th) Duke of Norfolk. Henry Stapleton's great-grandmother was Lady Mary Bertie, daughter of the 3rd Earl of Abingdon.

  • Lady Gwendoline Elizabeth Talbot - married Edward Henry Petre.
    • Edward Henry Petre was a son of Adeliza Maria of the Howard family (Dukes of Norfolk), and a cousin of William Bernard Petre (12th Baron - loc cit).
    • William Bernard Petre's grandmother was Charlotte Georgina Jerningham, aunt of Henry Valentine Stafford-Jerningham (9th Baron Stafford - loc cit). Edward Henry and William Bernard had the same great-grandfather, Robert Edward Petre (9th Bt) who married Anne Howard.
    • Agnes Mary Bedingfeld, sister of William Bernard Petre's mother (Frances Bedingfeld), married Thomas Molyneux-Seel (loc cit).