When Sir Harry James succeeded to his paternal estates in Yorkshire he was a child of four and a half years. His guardians were his mother, Dame Charlotte Goodricke, Viscount Clermont, Peregrin Dealtry Esq., and Edward Wolley Esq., who in due time sent their charge to Eton College for education. There his character apparently developed itself without much discipline or control and he became distinguished, not for his good or clever qualities, but, unfortunately, for the very reverse, and he was spoken of, in after life, by a gentleman (Mr. George John Serjeantson, J.P., N. & W. Ridings Camphill, Yorks.) who had been a fellow student at Eton and who knew him intimately as,
"as bad a fellow as ever lived."
Such a beginning in youth did not promise well for manhood. On attaining his majority (September 1818) he became master of Ribston and, on the death of his maternal uncle, Viscount Clermont in 1829, he inherited very large estates in Ireland and is said to have enjoyed an income of upwards of £40,000 plus pounds a year.
Sir Harry's ample means and his social position was able to provide for indulging his inherited tastes for the turf and the hunting field, to say nothing of mean sorts of excitement and amusement to the utmost, and indulge them he did.
He became a popular member of the Quorn Hunt very early in life and the records of that sport are full of his exploits between the years 1824 and 1833. In the former year he is spoken of as having several hunters in the field, but in 1829 when he succeeded to the Fortescue Estates in Ireland and his income became so largely increased, he threw himself with greater zeal than ever into the hunting field. In 1831 he bought the celebrated hunter "Segar" which beat the whole field in what was considered the most notable run enjoyed by the Quorn (March 1831) during the time Lord Southampton was master.
Lord Southampton resigned the Master ship of the Quorn in April 1831 and at a meeting held at the "Three Crowns," Leicester, Sir Harry Goodricke was unanimously elected to succeed his Lordship. Sir Harry named his own terms, which were that he would hunt the country at his own cost and would hold himself alone accountable for his manner of doing it.
Sir Harry's invincible passion for hunting made him a
very willing successor to Lord Southampton and he began his term by promptly
building new kennels at Thrussington, about five miles from Melton. No expense
was spared, of course.
The season of 1831 saw Sir Harry duly installed as the M.F.H., a dinner in his
honour being held at the George Hotel Melton, on 6th October. More than eighty
guests were present and the chairman, Mr. Thett, of Kettleby, proposed Sir
Harry's health. Among the toasts of the evening was one to the memory of
Meynell the founder of the Quorn Hunt. After dinner, Mr. G. Marriott, Jun.,
gave the following song written for the occasion: -
That Sire
of the Chase - our crack Nimrod, old Meynell,
once said to a famed brother sportsman at Quorn,
"the fame and the fun of a Le'stershire kennel
should cease - when the sun ceased to gladden the morn."
He's gone, but each year proves how true the prediction;
Unmarred is our sport - undiminished our fame,
He's gone, and this day shows his words were no fiction,
For "Hunting and le'stershire still mean the same.
Chorus (after each verse).
Then round with the bottle, and let it not tarry,
While we hail, while we honour, the man of our choice;
In a bumper, come pledge me - the gallant Sir Harry
Whom we love in our hearts, as we hail with our voice.
Other
masters we've had, in the days of our glory-
Osbaldeston, Sefton, Tom Smith, and "The Graeme,"
Southampton the last, not the least in our story,
Giving Melton its mainspring and Le'stershire fame.
And if for a season our joy has been clouded,
A day like the present's too happy for pain;
In the prospect before us what pleasures are crowded,
For oh, in our Goodricke we've Meynell again.
The Coplow
again shall be famous in story,
And high be the deeds we shall do from Seg's Hill;
And Melton once more, in the blaze of its glory,
Under Goodricke shall flourish - Under Goodricke shall fill;
Again shall our coverts like Courts be attended;
Again shall our "Field days" boast many a Star,
The friends shall return who have Melton befriended,
Thyne, Forester, Kinnaird, Moore, Maxse, and Maher.
And
Alvanley too - shall Meltonia forget thee?
Oh never - while wit, and while wine, have a charm;
Thou too wilt return, blithe as ever we met thee,
And with joke, fun and glee, still old sorrow disarm;
And Chesterfield too, and our honoured De Wilton,
With Plymouth and Stanley, shall come in the train,
And the Lord of the Chase, and the Monarch of Melton,
Shall be Harry of Ribston, success to his reign.
In the hands of Sir Harry Goodricke the Hunt was kept up
in first-rate style. He had upwards of fifty hunters of his own in the stables
and about one hundred couples of hounds, and the maintenance of these, together
with the payment of other expenses, which he took upon his own shoulders were
estimated to cost him over £6,000 a year and probably did cost a considerably
larger sum.
Sir Harry was always super-excellently mounted and his open handed extravagance
made his deservedly popular. A contributor to the Leicester Journal took the
trouble to make the round of the Melton stables in 1833 and found that no fewer
than 450 horses were quartered in the district, Sir Harry heading the list with
52.
His "princely hospitality" at Melton Mowbray and his extravagant expenditure in other ways began to tell severely on his means - large as they were. Fortunately he had not the power to do more than enjoy the income of the Clermont estates, but it was not so with Ribston, his paternal acres, every penny of income from which property, and indeed much more, being spent on horses alone. Sir Harry naturally became involved in debt, though this fact was not known at the time, and another mortgage of the whole of his Goodricke patrimony became necessary in order to meet his ever increasing and reckless extravagance. True it is that his father, the sixth Baronet, whose eccentricity was notorious, found it necessary on 21st August 1795 (Wakefield Registry) to assign every acre of his inheritance to Trustees for the benefit of his creditors, but the long minority of his son Harry James, should have rendered it possible to largely diminish, if not extinguish, that debt.
It is not my intention to repeat the account of Sir Harry's doings during his master ship of the "Quorn." Those who are interested will find much about him between pages 114 and 160 of "The Quorn Hunt and its Masters" by William C. A. Blew, 1899.
In July 1833 Sir Harry sailed in his yacht to Ireland, and while there it is said he caught a severe cold when indulging in one of his favourite sports, otter hunting, and this proved fatal in forty-eight hours. He had then just completed, in his customary extravagant style, all arrangements for the shooting season, inviting a number of noblemen and gentlemen to join him at his shooting box, Mar. Lodge, in Scotland, and his guests were considerably upset at the news of the unexpected demise of their popular host. (We will come back to Mar Lodge in a moment).
Sir Harry James Goodricke died at Ravensdale Park, Co. Louth his Irish seat, 21st August 1833. He was unmarried. His body was brought over for burial in the family vault at Hunsingore, and the following story was current for long after. On arrival at Wetherby, those who were accompanying the remains rested at an inn in the town and called for refreshments, and, after these had been partaken of, cards and boxing gloves were produced for their further enjoyment. The landlord of the inn thought it was now high time to remonstrate and he gently reminded them of the solemn occasion which brought them there and that such conduct as they were indulging in, particularly the boxing, was unseemly indoors while the body of their master awaited their pleasure in the road. The only reply he received was: -
"Nonsense, man, if Sir Harry had been burying all of us he would have done just the same."
The Leeds Mercury of 7th September 1833 records that Sir Harry's funeral took place at Hunsingore two days after the remains had arrived at Ribston and that it was attended by Captain Graham, Mr. Francis L. Holyoake, Mr. Shafts and Mr. Gilmour as mourners, all "Quorn" associates, the service being read by Mr. Bellasis, who had only just then been presented by Sir Harry to the living of Hunsingore. It is a significant fact that not one of Sir Harry's relatives attended his funeral but it is on record that he was not on good terms with any of them. A rather unfortunate occurrence took place immediately after Sir Harry's death. Mr. William Hamilton Williamson, (second son of Sir Hedworth Williamson, 6th Bart. of Whitburn Hall Co. Durham) who was a "sporting friend" of Sir Harry's was informed that he had succeeded to the Ribston estates under Sir Harry's will. This was, of course, incorrect, but Mr. Williamson never forgot nor ceased to talk about his disappointment.
It was soon discovered that Sir Harry had signed a Will just one month before his death (25th July 1833) under which the whole of the Goodricke family estates were bequeathed to his sporting friend and schoolfellow Mr. Francis Lyttleton Holyoake. This gentleman received permission on 12th December 1833 to assume the additional surname and arms of Goodricke and he was afterwards created a Baronet, 31st March 1835.
"Sic transit gloria mundi"
The Louth and Armagh estates which Sir Harry had enjoyed from his uncle, Lord Clermont, passed, as provided, to Thomas Fortescue, Esq. of Dromisken, afterwards Lord Clermont.
This Will was proved in London on 27th November 1833 and Mr. Holyoake took possession of Ribston. It was stated at the time that Holyoake assumed the additional surname of Goodricke.
INSERT Clermont Lodge Little Cressingham Church of St Andrew.
Not all of the Clermont estate escaped unscathed by Harry’s Will Clermont Lodge, Cressingham, Co, Norfolk was eventually sold by Holyoake I have included an account of the History of this very interesting property for the following reasons Clermont Lodge is in its self and its history a most interesting and fascinating property it came under the Goodricke influence when Henry Goodricke married Charlotte Fortescue doughter of James Fortescue of Ravensdale Park, Ireland on November 30, 1796. Henry having a strong sporting interest used the hunting lodge to entertain his numerous sporting acquaintances. Harry was born on September 26, 1797 and followed in his late fathers foot steps I will not add more to this well recorded part of the family history other than to say that strangely enough Holyoake is buried at Little Cressingham Church of St Andrew under his assumed name by Harry’s Will and I record the following notes taken at the Church of St Andrew Lt Cressingham.
Little Cressingham Church of St Andrew by Frederick H Sutton C1860.
The floor slab of Sir F. Goodrick Bart, 1847, was moved from the ruins after the storm damage as can be seen by the way it is now set across the church and not East to West.
The arms in the East window of the South aisle are those of Holyoake-Goodricke, a Baronet.
The classical wall tablet on the South wall is to Viscount Clermont Earl of Clermont, Dromisken and Ravensdale, Co. Louth Ireland. The Motto, Forte scutum salus ducum. (A strong shield is the salvation of leaders). The founder of the family, Sir Richard Le Forte, protected William the Conqueror at Hastings, by bearing a shield before him, from which event the French word “escue” was added to the original word of “Forte;” and to the same circumstance the motto refers.
The shield on this tablet indicates that this is the Lord Clermont branch of the Fortescue family descended from the second son. Inscription reads In this place Lieth The body of William Henry Fortescue Viscount Clermont Earl of Clermont Ireland Who departed this life on the XXIX day of September MDCCCVI in the LXXXV Year of his age This monument is erected in obedience to his will by his Executor William Charles Fortescue now Viscount Clermont who was in Ireland at the time of his decease.
And now onto Clermont Lodge.
CLERMONT LODGE, NORFOLK
Built in the 1770s for the Earl of Clermont as a shooting box and extended by William Pilkington for his nephew in 1812, Clermont Lodge, near the village of little Cressingham, was derelict and threatened by demolition when Mr. Philip Jones bought it in 1973 and restored it.
Trim white stucco Regency villa is an unexpected sight in Norfolk, a county where flint and red brick predominate, superseded by white brick in the 19th century. Yet Clermont Lodge’s unlikely appearance is a direct result of its location on the edge of Breckland, an area of sandy heaths and generally poor farmland that in terms of Georgian land improvement represented frontier territory. Then resent house was built by outsiders, apparently designed in two stages by London architects for successive metropolitan patrons, whose Irish estates were their main bases and support, and whose interest in Norfolk lay, chiefly in its sporting potential.
Things had seemed very different early in the 18th century, when the local family of Knopwood was successfully building up a moderate estate in the area. Robert Knopwood farmed 120 acres, two miles south in the heart of Breckland. He died in 1723 and his son, also Robert, rose to become High Sheriff in 1751, the year before his death. He acquired land northwards, buying the Threxton estate in 1724 for £3,200, and then its neighbour, Little Cressingham. The third Robert Knopwood, who succeeded in 1752, died 20 years later leaving the estate heavily mortgaged to the tune of £8,200, principally on account of agricultural improvements. The mortgages were called in and Robert’s widow put the estate up for sale, but not without difficulty. When a neighbour considered buying Cressingham, or which the Knopwood trustees were seeking about £8,500, he was advised that there would be little return for the money needed to rebuild the farm and barns as “they are now in a sad ragged condition”.
This presented no problem for the actual purchaser, Lord Clermont, who was mainly interested in the shooting. It was also only 25 miles from his beloved Newmarket. Clermont, born William Henry Fortescue, was the leading sporting figure of the day and an Irish political personality of some influence, largely due to the dazzling marriage he had made in 1752 to Frances Murray heiress to vast Co. Monaghan estates. Already in control of one Irish parliamentary seat in Co. Louth on the basis of his father’s estates, Fortescue thus gained two more. An MP from 1745, almost invariably of the government’s party, he was appointed to the Irish Privy Council in 1755; secured the sinecure of Postmaster-General for Ireland (worth £1,000 a year) in 1763; and was elevated to the peerage in 1770.
From then on he spent most of his time in England or France, where he formed an unlikely friendship with the French king and queen. Horace Walpole, who had little time for Clermont or his wife, writes of how they were superlatively inflated at the odours which flowed on them” at the French court. In England, the raffish circle that surrounded the Prince of Wales took up Clermont. Sir Nathaniel Wraxall in his Posthumous Memoirs had “scarcely ever known a man more fitted for a companion of Kings and Queens than was Lord Clermont”.
It is as a gamester, great shot and man of the Turf that Clermont is most memorable and attractive. He was prepared to bet on almost anything, as Brooks’s betting book attests. He once shot 50 brace of woodcock in a day and also cut a prominent figure at Newmarket. By the 1780s, Clermont’s stud was one of the most successful in the country. In 1785, he won the Derby with Aimwell and from 1794 was acknowledged as father of the Turf.
At Little Cressingham, Clermont regularly entertained the Prince of Wales; for his own enjoyment and for entertaining such guests, he built a shooting box, styled Clermont Lodge. Extending 88ft 9in by 33ft 6in and with ground-floor room’s 15ft 6in high, over a sunken basement, it was of tuck-pointed red brick (as became apparent in the recent restoration). Partial accounts for 1777-78 show that the roof tiles were bought second-hand from Oxburgh Hall, where Sir Richard Bedingfeld had started demolition of the hall range in 1775. The accounts followed the death in September 1777 of Robert Freegard, the builder, in the middle of the contract. Samuel Burcham, surveyor, on behalf of Freegard’s executors, measured the work done thus far and W. Hay for Lord Clermont measured further work, restarting in October. Nearly 160,000 bricks were delivered on site and 10,000 carted away, presumably from the demolished former farmhouse.
The new lodge’s basically rectangular plan was enlivened by a canted bay projecting from the two longer fronts: that on the north comparatively shallow and of full height; the opposing one on the south front deeper, but of one storey only, capped by a cornice and balustrade. With an enfilade of doors running from end to end of the house on the south side and a very deep saloon allowing only a shallow hall in the canted entrance bay this ground-floor plan was similar to that at Deepdene, in Surrey, built from l769 to 1775.
William Grove of Piccadilly designed Deepdene, but at Clermont the subsequent employment of William Pilkington may point to the identity of its original architect. Pilkington was a pupil and assistant of Sir Robert Taylor, and on his death he succeeded to many of his appointments (including surveyor to the Earl of Radnor, the Duke of Grafton and the Foundling Hospital in London) and afterwards worked or a number of his private clients. Hallmarks of Taylor’s style found at Clermont include the provision of service rooms in the basement, lit and kept dry by a narrow trench encircling the building, and a combination of full-height and single storey canted bays. Although the tucking of the staircase into the northeast angle (rather than its being placed centrally) might seem unlikely for Taylor, the stair at Mount Clare, Surrey (1770-73), is sited similarly.
There is no documentary evidence of Clermont employing Taylor, but there are circumstantial links between them. In the 1770s Taylor was engaged for the Duke of Grafton’s development of 14 houses in Grafton Street, and it was to Grafton as Prime Minister that Fortescue applied for his peerage, contravening established form by going over the head of the viceroy in Ireland. In addition, Lady Clermont was a friend of Mrs. Howe, who not only lived (from1771) in one of Taylor’s Grafton Street houses but also managed the work by Taylor in 1772 at Spencer House and Althorp for Lady Spencer, who stayed with the Clermont’s in Norfolk in 1786 and 1797.
Being childless, Lord Clermont was anxious to secure the continuance of his title. In the trafficking in honours over the Irish general election of 1776, he obtained a viscountcy with special remainder to his brother’s male heirs. The following year he was created Earl of Clermont, but with no special remainder, so that his nephew succeeded as 2nd Viscount Clermont in 1806.
It was the new viscount who called in William Pilkington to extend and remodel the house in 1812. He added the stucco covering and replaced the pantiles with slate. A signed “plan of the New Addition at Clermont’, now in the Norfolk Record Office, confirms that Pilkington added the two pavilion ends to the house. These provided a large dining room with kitchen below and a morning room, besides extra bedrooms. The Venetian windows (with a glazed over-arch) to the south aspect of these rooms are a development of his master’s ideas, but here lightened by the omission of an entablature over the sidelights. An academic touch is found in the use of the Delos order for the columns of the curious segmental-shaped Tuscan portico.
On Viscount Clermont’s death in 1829, his title became extinct and the estate, along with the Irish estates, passed to his nephew Sir Harry Goodricke, 7th Bart, of Ribston, Yorkshire (I will deal with Harry in more detail in a separate document). Goodricke died young in 1833, and while the Irish estates reverted to Fortescue cousins, his English properties were left to his sporting companion of the hunting field, Sir Francis Holyoake; Bt. Clermont was soon for sale. Holyoake withdrew from negotiations with the 5th Lord Walsingham at £60,000 in 1845 on suspicion of Goodricke’s mother’s imminent demise, later selling the estate (no longer encumbered by her life interest) in 1858 to the 2nd Duke of Wellington for £87,000.
The shooting presumably attracted the duke, MP for Norwich from 1837 to 1852, he also bought the neighbouring estate of Hilborough. He subsequently sold them both in 1863 to John Remington Mills, a brewer, whose family held Clermont until 1933. The next owner, Reginald Foster, a tea planter, greatly extended the service quarters to the north-east, introduced a good deal of decoration in fibrous plasterwork and pushed the main bedroom out over the drawing room bay on the south front. His widow sold in 1963 to Sir Richard Prince-Smith, Bart, who was unable to live in the house due to family circumstances, Instead, Clermont, was let to a boys’ school, for which a number of utilitarian alterations were carried out. The school’s sudden departure in 1970 was followed by a period of neglect. Rapidly clogged parapet gutters led to galloping dry rot that was so bad by mid-1972 that a plan was considered to have the army from the neighbouring military training area dynamite the house.
This was prevented by the intervention of Mrs. Charlie Mills. The house was listed and put to auction in 1973, with 20 acres. With no supporting estate, Clermont seemed doomed. The house was derelict, in part open from cellar to roof Space, and many of the fittings had been removed with the fortuitous exception of most of the chimneypieces. Despite this, Mr. Philip Jones, a painter who trained at the Slade under William Coldstream, bought it. During his restoration he later extensions were removed, returning the house to the appearance of Pilkington’s villa, although the south front still sports a hill-height canted bay. Because of rot, all the plaster and door surrounds had to be stripped out, although the original doors were salvaged and, in the dining room, Pilkington’s cornice survives. The arched openings from hall to north corridor were reduced down to door-cases to conserve heat. The one chimneypiece that was lost (in the dining room) has been replaced by a Soanian one from nearby Letton Hall.
Mr. and Mrs. Jones’s courageous restoration over the past 30 years has, for the first time in its history, rendered the house the principal residence of the family that owns it. Acting as his own decorator, and using his own paintings, notably in the drawing room, Mr. Jones has created a classic country-house interior that belies Clermont’s chequered past.
Notes taken from an article in Country Life 1993 with an Acknowledgment to Dr Antony Malcolmson and Edited by Michael B Goodrick 2003.
Back to Sir Harry James Goodricke and Mar lodge, 
his
life was finally sacrificed to his ardour in all the pursuits of the sportsman.
As stated perversely he had experienced an attack of influenza, from which he
had scarcely recovered, when he sailed in his yacht to visit his Irish estates.
He was there superintending considerable improvements, and when indulging in his
Favourite sport, otter hunting, caught a severe cold, which proved fatal in
forty-eight hours, He had promised to join a numerous circle of noblemen and
gentlemen in the Highlands during the present shooting season. Many of them had
already arrived at his shooting-box, Marr Lodge, Braemar on the river Dee
Aberdeenshire which he recently purchased of the Earl of Fife, and" the feelings
of the guests may be better conceived than described, on the intelligence of the
premature demise of their hospitable host."
The present Mar lodge the foundation stone of which was laid by Queen Victoria in 1895 for her grand-daughter the Duchess of Fife. The building was restored, having been partially destroyed by fire in 1991, and now provides a range of holiday flats.
In the Middle Ages, the estate was used as a hunting forest by the Earls of Mar, and small farming communities were established in the glens. In the late 1700s the farmers and their families were cleared from the land for deer forest when Mar Lodge became a sporting estate. At this time three outlying lodges were built at Derry, Bynack and Geldie. The National Trust for Scotland acquired the estate in 1995. The present estate consists of 72,500 acres and is part of the core area of the Cairngorm Mountains, internationally recognised as the most important nature conservation landscape in the British Isles. The estate contains four of the five highest mountains in Britain: it also includes the upper watershed of the River Dee and remnant Caledonian pin e forest of national importance a prime example of a Highland estate.
MAR LODGE, BRAEMAR, ABERDEENSHIRE.
Ridgeway’s Baronetage of the United Kingdom 1857
131 Baronetage .
SIR FRANCIS LYTTLETON HOLYOAKE-GOODRICKE.
Bart. of RIBSTON HALL, county of York, and STUDLEY CASTLE, county of Warwick; created a Baronet. Born, Nov. 13, 1797. Married, August 2, 1827, Elizabeth-Maria, daughter of George Payne. Esq., and has issue, Harry, born Aug. 7. 1836; and other children.
Sir Francis, by royal sign manual, dated Dec. 12, 1833, took the surname and arms of Goodricke out of respect to the memory of Sir Henry Goodricke, Bart, who left him the Goodricke estates.
Heir-Apparent—His son, Harry. — Creation—Feb. 17, 1835.
—Arms—--See plate 34. (See below)
"out of respect for the memory of Sir Harry".
Memories of rollicking and disreputable scenes Holyoake doubtless had in
abundance, but none of real respect. At all events Holyoake showed his
pretended respect for Sir Harry in a curious way for, instead of taking up his
residence at Ribston as might have been expected he immediately let the
residence furnished and set about the disposal of it and every Goodricke acre as
early as decency would permit. I will here refer the reader to my History,
(page 42,) at the end of this volume merely adding that Ribston was eventually
sold in 1836 to Mr. Joseph Dent of Appleby in Lincolnshire for the sum of
£180,000. Mr. George Robins, the agent who carried out the sale was so
disgusted with Holyoake for cheating him out of £1,000 of his remuneration that
he published in 1840 a fifty page pamphlet describing the whole transaction
"for the benefit and edification of the friends of Sir Francis."
To his great credit Mr. Joseph Dent preserved everything at Ribston with jealous care. His son, the late Mr. John Dent took the greatest interest in all that pertained to the old owners, the Goodricke’s. In a letter to me dated 4th May 1880 Mr. Dent said:
"This place is now so much to me that I like to know about the people to whom it formerly belonged almost as much as if I belonged to them."
It is to this gentleman's love of antiquities that so many relics of the Goodricke’s are now to be found at Ribston, and to his courtesy and kindness that I have been able to add to my work the important information derived from the family Bibles still preserved in the Ribston Hall library, and other interesting items.
It will be of interest to record here that, with the exception of six of the Goodricke family portraits at Ribston, Mr. Holyoake removed the whole collection to his own residence in Warwickshire. When that gentleman changed his residence to Malvern these portraits were either sold or given by him to Lord Clermont to whom they were sent but I have as yet failed to trace them. (This information from Miss Caroline Holyoake-Goodricke of Taunton in 1902.)
The six portraits left at Ribston in 1836 were: -
1. Sir John Goodricke, 5th Bart. Pastel by Lundberg, painted in 1766.
2. John Goodricke, Astronomer, Pastel, 1785, by Scouler, vide page
3. Rev. Richard Goodricke, oval oil.
4. Capt. William Goodricke, same.
5. Henrietta Goodricke, same.
6. Sir Harry James Goodricke when a boy.
I acquired the two first mentioned from Mr. George Wilson of Gilling Castle, in the year 1898. The portrait of Sir John I have bequeathed to the Leeds Corporation Art Gallery and that of Mr. John Goodricke I have recently presented to the Royal Astronomical Society as stated in the last chapter. On the acquisition of Gilling Castle by Mr. Wilson, Mr. H. C. Fairfax-Cholmeley removed the portrait of Sir Harry James Goodricke to Brandsby Hall. The remaining three portraits (of children of Sir John, 3rd Bart) are still hanging on the walls of the gallery at Gilling Castle and can be seen in their several positions in the pictures of that apartment which appeared in "Country Life" of September 26th 1908.
The portrait of Sir Harry James Goodricke, which I present at the beginning of this chapter, is a reduced photograph of a well known pencil drawing by Baron D'Orsay done in 1833, published by Mitchell, 33 Old Bond Street, London.
The library of the Goodricke’s at Ribston has been carefully preserved and was greatly valued by the late Mr. John Dent. The volumes generally contain the Goodricke bookplate and many of them bear on the flyleaves the autographs of various members of the family during the past two and a half centuries. The two family Bibles and the French Bible purchased by Sir John at Tours in the year 1638 are still among the treasures at Ribston, and one of the many Goodricke relics there was the original grant of (altered) Crest to Sir Henry Goodricke, 2nd Bart. dated 27th August, 1694. This handsomely illuminated parchment part of which is Left (full document illustrated in Arms For Goodricke part 3 by Michael B Goodrick) was most considerately and courteously presented to me in August 1907 by the present (1912) owner of Ribston, Major John William Dent, (late of the 4th Dragoon Guards), and in order that a document of such great interest and value of the family might be carefully preserved in perpetuity, I had it encased in morocco binding and presented it to the Manuscript department of the British Museum Library, 18th May 1911; where it will hereafter be available for inspection under the Library regulations. Its official reference catalogue number is Additional M.S. 38, 168. A copy of this Grant of Crest is contained in "Misc. Gen. et Herald. "
