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Burleigh Hall was a country house situated near Loughborough in the county of Leicestershire. Its land now forms part of the campus of Loughborough University. ==History== An early reference to the Burleigh estate describes how during the March 1644 Battle of Cotes Bridge in the Civil War, Parliamentary forces chased Royalists ''back to their garrison at Burleigh House''〔 http://peoplemakingplaces.org.uk/places/charnwood_places/loughborough/timeline1.htm A timeline of significant events in Loughborough's History earliest times〕 at which time it was in the possession of the Hastings family.〔 Following these events it was the third William Jesson (1650–1711), grandson of William Jesson (1580–1651) the Coventry dyer, Mayor and MP, who established a family seat at Burleigh Hall. He married Penelope Villiers of the influential Villiers family of Brooksby on 23 January 1669, he having been knighted the previous year.〔http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/jessonfamily/biographies.htm Jesson Biographies〕 However this was short-lived as in 1700 the estate was taken over by the Tate family,〔 in 1711 it was held by Henry Tate and stayed directly in the family until the death of George Tate on 18 April 1822.〔Curtis, John (1831). A Topographical History of the County of Leicester: Being the First of the counties of England and Wales. W Hextall, Ashby de la Zouch〕〔Baldwin, Cradock and Joy (1823). The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature of the year 1822〕 George Tate appears to have died with no close relatives, the following is an extract from ''Bulletins and Other State Intelligence for the year 1849'': Whitehall, July 17, 1849 Miss Louisa Pinfold Tate died on 21 July at her residence in Wimpole Street, Marylebone, London, her death being reported in ''The Gentleman's Magazine July–December, 1861''〔Henry, John and Parker, James (1861) The Gentleman's Magazine July–December, 1861. p218〕 The next reference to the Hall's ownership comes in 1847 when there is again an end to the lineage of the owning family, Miss Julia Tate is described as being ''wealthy and without a known living relative'', with the author of an 1847 Tourist Guide describing how Miss Tate ''...is not only a musician, but a linguist; has travelled on the continent, and was desirous of visiting the United States, and seeing a country of which she has read, and heard so much, both for and against.''〔Sherburne, John Henry (1847). The Tourist's Guide; Or, Pencillings in England and on the Continent: With the Expenses, Conveyances, Distances, Sights, Hotels, Etc. and Important Notes to the Tourist, G. B. Zieber & co. Chapter VII, p47〕 In 1958 the then owner of the Burleigh Estate agreed to sell the whole of his land to Loughborough College of Technology, at which time it was around , this included Burleigh Hall which the College had intended to use as its administrative centre but its fabric had deteriorated to such an extent that it was decided that demolition was the best option.〔Cantor, Leonard (1990) Loughborough University of Technology: Past and Present, Audio Visual Services, Loughborough University of Technology, p140, p144-5 ISBN 0-G02761-22-6〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Burleigh Hall」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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