Hugh Fortescue, 1st Earl Clinton was an English peer and landowner. He built the Palladian English country house of Castle Hill, which survives to this day.
Hugh Fortescue, 1st Earl Clinton
Castle Hill in 2014
Hugh Fortescue (1665–1719)
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Hugh Fortescue of Filleigh and Weare Giffard Hall in Devon and of Ebrington Manor in Gloucestershire, was a British landowner and Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons be
Hugh Fortescue, 1st Earl Clinton
…and landowner. He built the Palladian English country house of Castle Hill, which survives to this day. He was the eldest surviving son and heir of Hugh Fortescue, MP (1665–1719) of Filleigh, Weare Giffard and Ebrington, by his first wife Bridget Boscawen (d. 1708), daughter and sole heiress of Hugh Boscawen, MP…
St John the Baptist Church, Hagley, memorial statue to Lucy Lyttelton (née Fortescue, died 1747), the first wife of George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton
St John the Baptist Church, Hagley, memorial inscription to Lucy Lyttelton (née Fortescue, died 1747)
St John the Baptist Church, Hagley, information panel at statue to Lucy Lyttelton (née Fortescue, died 1747)