. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. LEYLAND HUNDRED STANDISH in ^ He died while consul at Nantes in 1828, and was ultimately succeeded by his daughter Henrietta wife of General Robert Browne, who assumed the surname of Clayton.* Their only son, Richard Clayton Browne- Clayton, died at Bournemouth in November 1886, and, his only son having fallen in the attack on the Redan at Sebasto- pol, Adlington Hall went to Mr. James Robert Browne Clayton Dawbeny,^ now lord of the manor. No manor. Clayton of Adling- ton, baronet. Argent a cross engrailed sable be- ttv
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. LEYLAND HUNDRED STANDISH in ^ He died while consul at Nantes in 1828, and was ultimately succeeded by his daughter Henrietta wife of General Robert Browne, who assumed the surname of Clayton.* Their only son, Richard Clayton Browne- Clayton, died at Bournemouth in November 1886, and, his only son having fallen in the attack on the Redan at Sebasto- pol, Adlington Hall went to Mr. James Robert Browne Clayton Dawbeny,^ now lord of the manor. No manor. Clayton of Adling- ton, baronet. Argent a cross engrailed sable be- ttveen Jour torteaux. courts are held, but such courts were held a century ago.* Adlington Hall^ is a modern classic mansion of brick and stone, standing on high ground, erected about 1770 by Sir Richard Clayton, bart., on the site of an ancient timber and plaster house. The front, which faces south, has a projecting middle part with rusticated base and pediment, and is two stories in height with an attic. The Duxbury moiety of the manor appears to h:ive been sold or otherwise alienated early in the 14th century, becoming much subdivided.'' Among the later holders,' some probably holding fractions of this moiety, are found the families of Asshaw^ and Radcliffe,^ Allanson,'*" Aughton'' and Anderton,'* Crosse '^ and Breres,'* Lancelyn '* and Worthington of Crawshaw.^^ Lands once belonging to St. Nicholas* chantry in Standish ^ There is a memoir of Sir Richard Clayton, first baronet, in Diet. Nat. Biog. \ he published essays and transla- tions. - See Raines in Notitia Cestr, iii, 393, and Baines, Lanes, (ed. 1836), iii, 515 j Sir Robert, a younger brother of Sir Richard, had a life interest in the manor. Pedigrees of the family will be found in the older Baronetages and in Burke's Landed Gentry^ but they are erroneous, and have been superseded by that of Mr. R. Stewart-Brown in the Genealogist. Thomas Clayton, the younger brother of Robert Clayton of Fulwood, was described as '
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