. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE ing in the Coke familjr*' until about 1780, when it was sold to Peter Drinkwater of Irwell House, Prest- ; William Dauntesey of Agecroft, who died in 1622," was succeeded by a son " and a grandson, also named William. The last-named, a minor at his father's death in 1637, was succeeded by his brother John, who, dying about 1693,'* was succeeded in turn by his sons William and Christopher.'* The latter of these married Mary daughter of Sir Edward Chisen- hale or Chisnall, and had sev
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE ing in the Coke familjr*' until about 1780, when it was sold to Peter Drinkwater of Irwell House, Prest- ; William Dauntesey of Agecroft, who died in 1622," was succeeded by a son " and a grandson, also named William. The last-named, a minor at his father's death in 1637, was succeeded by his brother John, who, dying about 1693,'* was succeeded in turn by his sons William and Christopher.'* The latter of these married Mary daughter of Sir Edward Chisen- hale or Chisnall, and had several children.^^ Edward, the eldest son, was subject to fits of lunacy, and his younger brother Chris- topher had the management of the estates, and ; He left a son John, in holy orders, who resided at Age- croft'* till his death in 1811, and bequeathed his estate to cousins, the Hulls of ; John son of Richard Hull had but a short enjoyment of Age- croft, dying in 1813, when he was followed by his brother-in- law, the Rev. Richard Buck, who had married Margaret Hull, and their son Robert succeeded.*" His younger brother, John Buck, the next owner, took the name. Dauntesey of Age- croft. Ter Jesse dancetly or and gules a lion ram- pant seizing upon a ivyvern erect counter- changedf a bordure en- grailed ermine. of Dauntesey in 1867,*°' and was followed by his sister Katherine Dauntesey Foxton, who died in 1878, when Agecroft Hall passed to Robert Brown, grand- son of Thomas Hull. Mr. Brown took the name of Dauntesey on succeeding. Dying in 1905 he was succeeded by his brother, Captain William Thomas Slater Hull, who also adopted the surname of Dauntesey.*"'' Agecroft Hall stands on slightly rising ground on the west side of the Irwell valley, where the river flows southwards towards Manchester between the high ground of Kersal and Prestwich on the east and north, and Irlams-o'-th'-Height and Pendlebury on the west. The surroundings of the h
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