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Catton Hall

Catton, GB

Catton Hall

Catton Hall is a country house near the boundary between Derbyshire and Staffordshire, within the civil parish of Catton. It gives its postal address as Walton-on-Trent although there was a village of Catton at one time. It is a Grade II* listed building. The Manor of Catton was acquired at the begi

nning of the 15th century by Roger Horton. Members of the family served as High Sheriff of Derbyshire. In 1765 Christopher Horton (d.1768) married Anne, daughter of Simon Luttrell, 1st Earl of Carhampton and later wife of Prince Henry, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn (brother of King George III). In the 19th century Anne Beatrix Horton, heiress of the estate, married Robert Wilmot thus creating the Wilmot-Horton family. On the death of the fifth Wilmot-Horton Baronet in 1887, the estate passed to his niece Augusta-Theresa who married in 1851 to Rev. Arthur Henry Anson, rector of Potterhanworth, Lincolnshire and son of Hon. Rev. Frederick Anson, Dean of Chester, born at the Anson family home Shugborough Hall. Catton Hall is now owned by the Neilson family, descendants of Anson-Horton family, descendants of the fifth Baronet, Rev. Sir George Wilmot-Horton. The manor house which had been...

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