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Newstead Abbey in 1880. Newstead Abbey in 2012 Newstead Abbey in 2007. Sir John Byron of Colwick in Nottinghamshire was granted Newstead Abbey by Henry VIII of England on 26 May 1540 and started its conversion into a country house.
Sir John lived at Colwick in Nottinghamshire, before being granted Newstead Abbey in the same county by Henry VIII of England on 26 May 1540. He was appointed Lieutenant of Sherwood Forest. He was also Steward of Manchester and Rochdale. He was a trusted adviser to Henry VIII, and was at court most of his life.
The earliest references to the estate occur on the death of William de Colwick in 1362, when it passed by the marriage of his daughter Joan to Sir Richard Byron, into the Byron family. The Byrons lived here for over 150 years until about 1660, when they moved to Newstead Abbey and Colwick Hall came into the ownership of the Musters family.
Byron was the son of John Byron by his second wife, Elizabeth Costerdine and lived at Clayton Hall, Manchester, and later Royton, both then in Lancashire [1] and later still at Newstead Abbey in Nottinghamshire, which he inherited from his father. He was High Sheriff of Lancashire in 1572 and High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire in 1596.
The most important building in the parish is Newstead Abbey, which is listed, together with a variety of structures in its gardens and grounds. The other listed buildings consist of a railway bridge, two farmhouses, and a war memorial.
Basford Rural District (part, being the parishes of Bestwood Park, Burton Joyce, Calverton, Lambley, Linby, Newstead, Papplewick, Stoke Bardolph and Woodborough) Carlton Urban District; The new district was named after the old village of Gedling. [3] [4] The civil parish of Gedling had been abolished in 1935 and absorbed into the Carlton Urban ...
1542: Sir John Byron of Colwick and Newstead Abbey [34] 1543: John Hercy of Grove Hall, Nottinghamshire [34] 1544: John Zouch [34] 1545: Sir John Markham II of Cotham [34] 1546: Sir Gervase Clifton of Clifton Hall, Nottingham [38] 1547: Francis Leek [38] 1548: Sir John Hercy of Grove Hall, Nottinghamshire [38] 1549: Sir Thomas Cokayne of ...
Sir John Byron (c. 1562–1623) of Colwick and Newstead, Nottinghamshire, and Clayton, Lancashire, was a Member of Parliament for Nottinghamshire in 1597. Byron was the son of Sir John Byron (died 1600) and his wife Alice Strelley. He married Margaret FitzWilliam, daughter of Sir William FitzWilliam of Gaynes Park. They had 5 sons and 5 daughters.