Harrowby Hall in Harrowby

Harrowby, Lincolnshire

Harrowby was a hamlet of two parts, Harrowby Within, and Harrowby Without, Harrowby Within now being part of Grantham civil parish, and Harrowby Without being part of Londonthorpe and Harrowby. Harrowby Hall is in the hamlet of Harrowby Without...

, Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire is a county in the east of England. It borders Norfolk to the south east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south west, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire to the west, South Yorkshire to the north west, and the East Riding of Yorkshire to the north. It also borders...

, England

England

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, was the family home of the Ryder family and is the former home of Nathaniel Ryder

Nathaniel Ryder, 1st Baron Harrowby

Nathaniel Ryder, 1st Baron Harrowby was a British peer and Member of Parliament.Harrowby was the son of Sir Dudley Ryder, Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench. He was elected to the House of Commons for Tiverton in 1756, a seat he held until 1776. On 20 May 1776 he was raised to the peerage as...

, Earl of Harrowby (1776). The hall was purchased from the Rolt family by Sir Dudley Ryder in 1754.

The estate formed part of the Land Settlement Association Estate containing 59 smallholdings (dispersed in 1971).

The house is currently owned by the Braybrook family.

External links

• "Harrowby", genuki.org.uk. Retrieved 18 August 2011