The
History Section of this website has been an attempt to utilise the archive
material to do with Lyndon and the families that have lived there over the last
three hundred years. We have recently made a start on putting everything in
chronological order based on the Conant Family Tree.
The
two families that have been most prominent in the life of Lyndon and played a
leading role are the Barkers and the Conants and therefore we have included
material that pre-dates their connection with Lyndon.
The
Lyndon Estate in its present form was created over 300 years ago when it was
purchased by Abel and Thomas Barker in 1663 for £9,400.00. A few years
later work began on Lyndon Hall and the house was completed in 1677. In the
19th Century the Estate was inherited by Edward Nathaniel Conant from his Uncle
The Reverend Edward Brown who was a cousin of Anne and Mary Barker, the last of
the Barker family to live at Lyndon.
Lyndon remains an Estate Village, as it has been for
centuries, retaining much of its charm and rural character and providing an
almost unique place to live in the the 21st Century. It is surrounded by an
agricultural estate extending to over 1000 acres.
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Richard
Conant |
Born 1548
died 1630 aged 82, married Agnes Clarke, born Colyton (daughter of John
Clarke). |
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Robert Conant
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Born Bicton, married Elizabeth
Morris in East Budleigh 14 October 1607, born Devon. Robert died 1638, Bleton,
Devon. Will proved 23 May 1638 A.C.E. |
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Roger Conant
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Born 1592, baptised 9th April
1592, married 11 November 1618, Sarah Horton at St. Annes, Blackfriars, London.
Emigrated to Plymouth, Massachusetts, 1623. Ancestor of the Conant family in
America. Will recorded in probate records of Essex County. Statue outside the
Witches Museum, Salem, Massachusetts. Died 19th November 1679 , aged
87. |
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John Conant
DD
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Born 18 October 1608 at
Yeatanton, married Elizabeth Reynolds (daughter of Dr. Edward Reynolds). BA 26
May 1631. Fellow 1633-7. Rector 1649-62 Exeter College, Oxford DD 29 May 1654.
Regius Professor of Divinity 1654. Vice-Chancellor Oxford University. Expelled
as Rector of Exeter College, Oxford for non-conformity. Appointed Commissioner
for review of the Book of Common Prayer 1661. Vicar of All Saints, Northampton
1670, Archdeacon of Norwich 1676. Preb Worcester 17 Nov 1681. D 12
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Robert
Conant |
Born 1670
died 1756 aged 86, married Mary Medlicot. Citizen and merchant of
London. |
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Rev. John
Conant |
Born 28 May 1706 died 2nd April
1779 aged 73, married 1733, Mary Wake, (daughter & co-heir of Rev. William
Wake). 1st cousin of Archbishop Wake. Pembroke College Oxford BA 1727 MA 1730
Buried St. George’s Brunswick Square. |
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Sir Nathaniel Conant
Kt.
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Born 10 Apr 1745 died 12 April
1822, married 1776, Sarah Whiston, (daughter of John Whiston). Police
Magistrate, Marlborough Street, Chief Magistrate Bow St. Knighted
1813. |
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John Edward
Conant |
Born 18 October 1777 died 13
October 1848 aged 71, married 1817, Catherine Brown, (daughter of Edward &
Sarah Brown of Barn Hill Stamford). Commander RN. Police Magistrate Marlborough
Street, 1817. |
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Edward Nathaniel
Conant
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Edward
Nathaniel Conant was born on 15 May 1820. He was the son of Commander John
Edward Conant and Catherine Brown. He married Gertrude Mary Proby, daughter of
Reverend Charles Proby, on 27 August 1844. He died on 17 September 1901 at age
81.
Edward Nathaniel Conant was
educated at Rugby School, Rugby, Warwickshire, England. He graduated from St.
John's College, Oxford, England, in 1842 with a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) and in
1845 with a Master of Arts (M.A.).
He was a practising barrister. He held
the office of Justice of the Peace (J.P.). He held the office of Deputy
Lieutenant (D.L.). In 1862 he inherited Lyndon Hall from his maternal uncle,
Reverend Edward Brown. He lived at Lyndon Hall, Oakham, Rutland,
England. |
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Ernest William Proby
Conant
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Born 7 March 1852 Westbourne
Terrace baptised St.James Paddington died 14 August 1920 aged 68. Eton 1865.
Oxford. Justice of the Peace Rutland. High Sheriff of Rutland 1907 . Married 12
July 1898 Eva Mildred Tryon eldest daughter of Lt. Col. Tryon of Bulwick Park.
Buried Lyndon. |
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Sir Roger John Edward
Conant Bt.
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Born 28 May
1899, London, married (1) 9 Nov 1920, divorced 1972, Daphne Lorraine Learoyd,
born 16 May 1888, Huddersfield, (daughter of Alfred Ernest Learoyd) died 1976,
Oakham, married (2) 21 Jul 1972, in Chelsea Register Office, Mary Buchanan (nee
Worth), died c 1982. Sir Roger died 27 Feb 1973, London, buried: Lyndon. 1st
Baronet, created 30 June 1954. Comptroller of the Household 1951-54
(Contemporary of Lord Tryon as Keeper of the Privy Purse). CVO 1953. MP
Derbyshire - Chesterfield, 1931-35. -Bewdley, Worcs 1937-50. -Rutland &
Stamford, Lincs 1950-59. Conservative Whip 1946-51 |
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Sir John Ernest
Michael Conant Bt.
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Born 24 Apr 1923, at Lyndon,
Farmer and Landowner, married (1) 16 September 1950, in Lyndon, Periwinkle
Elizabeth Thorp, (daughter of Dudley Thorp) died 1985 married (2) 11 Jul 1992,
Mary Clare Attwater, born 26 May 1945, Maracaibo, Venezuela, (daughter of
William Edmund Madden). Eton College and Corpus Christi, Cambridge. High
Sheriff of Rutland 1960. |
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Simon Edward
Christopher Conant |
Born 13 October 1958, Oakham,
Farmer and Landowner, Lloyd's Underwriter, married Justine Sarah Preston 20 May
2000. Eton College and Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester.
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Nathaniel Edward
Charles Conant
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Born 25th July 2007
Leicester |
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