Catalogue

27 January 1885 (1) Eleanor Surtees of Hamsterley Hall, spinster (2) The Hon. John Gage Prendergast Vereker (3) George Anthony Fenwick of Bywell Hall, Northumberland, Esquire; the Revd. Charles Blackett Carr of Norham, Northumberland, Clerk in Holy Orders; the Revd. Henry Stewart Gladstone of Lewes Crescent, Brighton, Sussex, Clerk in Holy Orders Draft marriage settlement of (1) and (2) whereby (1) conveys to (2) her moiety of the estates in the parishes of Lanchester, Chester-le-Street and Ryton (1485a) and in the parishes of Bywell St. Peter, Hexham and Ovingham, Northumberland (572a) upon trust for (1) for life, thence upon trust for (2) if he survive her with remainder to their issue as specified

25 May 1921 (1) The Rt. Hon. Eleanor, Viscountess Gort, wife of Staling Meux Benson, late a Colonel in the 17th Lancers (2) The Revd. Henry Stewart Gladstone of Hazelwood, Kings Langley, Hertfordshire, Clerk in Holy Orders (3) John Arthur Keith Falconer of Calmsden Manor, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, Esquire and Henry Wighman Benson of Fairy Hill, Reynoldston, Glamorgan, late a Lieutenant Colonel in HM's Army Draft appointment by (1) and(2) of (3) as new trustees of (1)'s marriage settlement with regard to £6000 cash and £7271 14s.7d stock (the proceeds of land sold by her)

1927 (1) The Rt. Hon. Eleanor, Dowager Viscountess Gort (2) The Hon. Standish Robert Gage Prendergast Vereker of Hamsterley Hall and John Arthur Keith Falconer of Calmsden Manor, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, Esquire Draft appointment by (1) of (2) as new trustees under the within recited marriage settlement of (1) of 1885 as successors to the Public Trustee for the statutory trusts of the Law of Property Act 1925 relative to Stobby Lee Farm (132a.1r.25p) in the parish of Hexham, Northumberland, Apperley Farm (358a.2r.6p) in the parish of Bywell St. Peter, Northumberland, Ewehurst Farm, Low Ewehurst Farm, Lintz Ford and a paper mill and other lands in the Chapelry of Tanfield (137a.2r.7p) and lands in the township of Medomsley, Chopwell, in Westwood, in the parish of Lanchester and Hamsterley Hall and park with various wayleaves and rent charges (730a.1r.23p) and 729a of woodland

19 December 1930 (1) The Hon. Standish Robert Gage Prendergast Vereker of Hamsterley Hall and John Arthur Keith Falconer of Calmsden Manor, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, Esquire (2) Hamsterley Colliery Ltd. Draft Lease by (1) to (2) for 40 years from 1 January 1926 of coals under lands at Hamsterley and Byerside as shewn on the several attached plans with powers to make drifts as specified , with reservations of coals above or in the Top Busty seam for part of the demised area specified, by way of surface support and subject to the rights of the LNER in respect of their railway line. Covenants for the payment by the lessees of insurances to cover the amount of permanent damage to 297 a. of the Hamsterley Estate assessed as specified Rent: £800 p.a. plus various tonnage rates for coal, £10 p.a. for fireclay and other payments specified. A maximum of 200 tons of coal p.a. to be supplied free of charge for use at Hamsterley Hall

19 December 1938 (1) The Hon. S.R.G.P. Vereker (2) Hamsterley Colliery Ltd Draft covenant to be subscribed to D/CG 18/4 raising the royalty payments for coals wrought to 7d. per ton to settle the claims of (1) as landlord for surface damage done by the colliery workings of (2) Covenant to leave unworked minerals under Derwent Cote House, High Hamsterley,South Field and Byerside farmhouses and buildings. Agreement for the surrender of certain insurances.

Plan of the Hamsterley Hall Estate, with inserts of Stobby Lee and Apperley, April 1949 Scale: 1:10560

4 September 1956 (1) The National Coal Board (2) The Rt. Hon. Standish Robert Gage Prendergast, Viscount Gort Draft surrender by (1) to (2) of certain surface works demised to the Hamsterley Colliery Ltd by D/CG 18/4 as delineated on the attached plan