10 Nov Lordship Title of Renhold ID13959
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There is no mention of Renhold in the Survey of 1086, but RENHOLD MANOR appears later as parcel of the barony of Bedford. The name Renhold is first found in 1227–8, at which date Sybil de Renhold and others were seised of half a virgate of land in this parish which they quitclaimed to Cecilia of Bedford. By the middle of the century Renhold was held as half a knight's fee by William de Beauchamp of the king in chief. On the partition of the barony of Bedford in 1265 among the three co-heirs of John de Beauchamp a share in Renhold Manor was assigned to each. Maud wife of Roger Lestrange appears to have acquired the least important share, and her descendants the Moubrays are found holding here by knight service down to the 15th century. The share of Ela Beauchamp became later known as Hoobury Manor and will be found treated below. That portion of the property which is henceforward called Renhold Manor passed to Beatrice Beauchamp, third sister and co-heir, and through her to the Latimers and Nevills, following till 1538 the same descent as that portion of the barony of Bedford (q.v.). In 1538 Sir John Nevill granted the manor of Renhold to Sir John Gostwick, who died seised of it in 1545. It remained in the possession of the Gostwicks till 1624, following the descent of the manor of Willington (q.v.) till that date, about which time Edward Gostwick conveyed Renhold to Sir William Becher. Sir William held it till his death in 1640, when his son William succeeded, in whose possession it remained till 1694, in which year he died, (fn. 18) leaving the manor to his eldest son William, who was married in 1699 to Jane Clarke of Watford. William Becher suffered a recovery of the manor in 1725, and in 1769 John Becher, probably a younger son of the latter, was in possession of Renhold, which in 1781 passed from this family by sale to Nathaniel Polhill, an eminent banker and tobacco merchant in the borough of Southwark. He made his seat at Howbury Hall and died in 1784, being succeeded by his second son and namesake, who died, however, in his minority in 1802. The whole of the parish except one small farm is said to have belonged to him at this time. Nathaniel's property passed to his younger brother John, who died in 1828, when his third son Frederick inherited Renhold. The latter was Conservative member for Bedford between the years 1831 and 1844 inclusive. He suffered a recovery of his property here in 1831, and held it till his death in 1848. His only son, Frederick Charles Polhill-Turner, J.P., D.L., High Sheriff of Bedfordshire in 1885 and M.P. for Bedford from 1874–80, inherited from him and held Renhold till he died in 1881. It then passed to his eldest son Frederick Edward Fiennes Polhill-Turner, who held it in 1900, being succeeded on his death by his brother Cecil Henry, the present owner, late lieutenant 2nd Dragoon Guards, who in his early years went as a missionary to China and lived for some time in Tibet.
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