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Barely a month after the 1901 burglary at Mansion a seldom recalled tragedy struck. Jnr’s widow hosted the Bradford Postmen’s Water Polo match in the lake, watched by 300. How nobody, not even his wife, saw 26 yr old Tom Mirfield drowning remains a mystery https://t.co/fMgG8NbSvQ

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2022-11-15

Married for 21 years, Catherine Salt wife of Jnr was widowed 1887. Son Gordon was born 277 days after the wedding, just in time to quash any rumours. Left with 4 children, the youngest two aged 13 & 11 Catherine sold mansion & moved to Denton Hall. https://t.co/WL7WCdtUNn

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2021-11-20

Hosting the royals at MilnerField in 1887, the strain of the loss-making Jubilee Exhibition in is clearly visible on 44yr old He collapsed fatally in his mansion 6 months later. https://t.co/VUWqcfGAmO

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2021-05-19

SirJames Roberts of & spent 3 months in Russia every year in the 1880s trading for wool & lost a fortune when broke out. He gave £10k to the University of Leeds for a Chair in Russian Language & Literature.

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2020-04-13

windows by the 1859 London firm of Saunders&Co were installed throughout Jnr’s 12thC medieval style mansion nr in 1869.

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2019-01-21

Jnr released 9,000 trout into the beck at 4,000 into the nr & 2,000 into his father’s lake at his Crow Nest mansion Lightcliffe, nr in 1870

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2019-01-05

Suddenly 1887 Jnr, supporter of cremation, found in the billiard room at Heart failure aged 44. Laid to rest in

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2018-11-20