West Bretton is a village and civil parish in the Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. It lies close to junction 38 of the M1 motorway at Haigh. It has a population of 546, reducing to 459 at the 2011 Census.
Bretton Hall is a country house in West Bretton near Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. It housed Bretton Hall College from 1949 until 2001 and was a campus of the University of Leeds (2001–2007). It is a Grade II* listed building.
Earl of Carlisle is a title that has been created three times in the Peerage of England.
Viscount Allendale, of Allendale and Hexham in the County of Northumberland, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 5 July 1911 for the Liberal politician Wentworth Beaumont, 2nd Baron Allendale. The title of Baron Allendale, of Allendale and Hexham in the County of Northumberland, had been created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom on 20 July 1906 for his father, the Yorkshire mining magnate and Liberal Member of Parliament, Wentworth Beaumont. The first Viscount's son, the second Viscount, notably served as Lord Lieutenant of Northumberland between 1949 and 1956. As of 2017 the titles are held by the latter's grandson, the fourth Viscount, who succeeded his father in 2002.
Lieutenant-General Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, KG, also known as in Jacobite Peerage as the 1st Duke of Strafford and 3rd Baron Raby from 1695 to 1711, was an English peer, diplomat and statesman who served as First Lord of the Admiralty.
Wentworth Henry Canning Beaumont, 2nd Viscount Allendale, was a British peer, Lord Lieutenant of Northumberland, and army captain.
Wentworth Canning Blackett Beaumont, 1st Viscount Allendale PC, JP, DL, styled The Hon. Wentworth Beaumont between 1906 and 1907, and Lord Allendale from 1907, was a British Liberal politician.
Walter Ramsden Hawkesworth Fawkes was a Yorkshire landowner, writer and member of parliament (MP) for Yorkshire from 1806 to 1807.
Ralph Edward Blackett Beaumont CBE, TD, DL, JP, styled The Honourable from 1907, was a British soldier and Conservative Party politician.
Lt.-General Godfrey Bosville Macdonald, 3rd Baron Macdonald of Sleat was a Scottish aristocrat.
Wentworth Blackett Beaumont, 1st Baron Allendale, was a British industrialist and Liberal politician.
Henry Frederick Beaumont DL JP was a British Liberal and Liberal Unionist politician.
Sir George Armytage, 3rd Baronet was a British politician.
Thomas Wentworth Beaumont of Bretton Hall, Wakefield in Yorkshire, and of Bywell Hall in Northumberland, was a British politician and soldier. In 1831, at the time he inherited his mother's estate, he was the richest commoner in England.
Somerset Archibald Beaumont DL, FRGS was a British Liberal politician.
Beaumontia is a small genus of evergreen woody vines in the milkweed family. It is native to China, the Indian subcontinent, and Southeast Asia.
John Smyth was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1783 to 1807.
Rev. John Swete of Oxton House, Kenton in Devon, was a clergyman, landowner, artist, antiquary, historian and topographer and author of the Picturesque Sketches of Devon consisting of twenty illustrated journals of Devon scenery. He was a connoisseur of landscape gardening, and much of his Travel Journals consist of his commentary of the success or otherwise of the landscaping ventures of his gentry friends, neighbours and acquaintances in Devon. He himself undertook major building and landscaping works at Oxton.
Julian Charles Marsham, 8th Earl of Romney, is an English peer.
Sir William Wentworth, 4th Baronet (1686–1763), of Bretton Hall, West Yorkshire, was a British landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1731 to 1741.
