Now! Then! 2024! - Yorkshire On This Day

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February 4th. – Cyril Arthington, of Arthington, esq., is dead of excessive drinking, because he had an heir born.

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Abbreviations:

• ER: East Riding
• GM: Greater Manchester
• NR: North Riding
• NY: North Yorkshire
• SY: South Yorkshire
• WR: West Riding
• WY: West Yorkshire

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Comment

Taylor, Ecclesiæ Leodienses, says 1729, but I’m assuming that is a Lady Day calendar confusion:

Cyril de Arthington lived about the year 1100, and from this time, up to the year 1681, the estate descended regularly from father to son, upwards of 500 years. In this year Henry Arthington died without issue, and the estate passed to Cyril Arthington, a descendant of a younger branch of the family. He erected Arthington Hall, (for engravings of the south front, and north side of which see Jones’s Harewood, pp. 218 and 231), and furnished it with water, as Thoresby says, “conveyed in pipes of lead from an engine he has contrived at his mill upon the River Wharfe, being an ingenious gentleman, and well seen in hydrostatics,” &c. Cyril Arthington died in 1720, leaving a son Cyril, who died in 1729, leaving a son Cyril, who died a minor, at Oxford, in 1750. The estate then passed into the family of the Rev. Thos. Hardcastle, Canon of Christ Church, Dublin, whose son, Sandford, assumed the name of Arthington. It subsequently became the property of W. F. Carruthers, Esq., whose mother was the daughter of the last Mr. Arthington. This gentleman sold the estate, about the year 1850, to Wm. Sheepshanks, Esq., who erected a fine residence on Rawdon Hill, the extremity of the township. The late occupier of Arthington Hall was Thos. Farrer, Esq. (Taylor 1875).

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February 4th. – Cyril Arthington, of Arthington, esq., is dead of excessive drinking, because he had an heir born.

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• Hobson, John (32), enthusiastically morbid diarist of Dodworth Green (Barnsley), the date of whose own death is unknown ·
• Thoresby, Ralph (1658-1725) (11), Leeds-born antiquarian and its first historian, non-conformist, merchant, fellow of the Royal Society, diarist, author, common-councilman in the Corporation of Leeds, museum keeper ·
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