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Lord of Caldicote

The Lordship of the Manor of Caldicote (historically sometimes written as Caldecote or Caucot) is in the parish of Towcester in the administrative county of Northamptonshire. The manor is more particularly described in the History of Northamptonshire by T. Bridges, dated 1791 at pages 278-279, and in Northamptonshire by G Baker, dated 1822-30 on pages 339-340. The manor was, and is, a Berewick of the Capital Manor of Towcester, owing suit to the Hundred Court of that place. It was, for many years, the property of the Fermor-Hesketh family, before passing to the present incumbent, Michael Lindsay Orr, currently residing in Malaga in Spain.

The Earl of Pomfret - the Right Honourable George Richard William Fermor – was the 5th and last Earl of Pomfret. When he died in 1867, his Northampton Estates, including Caldicote, passed to his brother-in-law, Sir Thomas George Hesketh and his descendants, including the Right Honourable Thomas Alexander Fairmore Hesketh. This third Baron Hesketh passed the title of the Lord of Caldicote to Michael Lindsay Orr in 1995.