Sir John Gell, 1st Baronet
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Sir John Gell was an English military officer who acted as local Parliamentarian commander for most of the First English Civil War from 1643 to his resignation in 1646. He was notorious for parading t
Sir John Gell
St Mary's Church, Wirksworth, where Gell was buried in 1671
Sir William Brereton, 1st Baronet, was an English religious Independent, author, and landowner from Cheshire. He was Member of Parliament for Cheshire at various times between 1628 and 1653, and durin
Sir William Brereton, 1st Baronet
The family home, Handforth Hall, Cheshire
Modern example of a duck decoy, similar to those installed by Brereton
State apartments of Croydon Palace, now part of a private school