Clement-Jones family - Person Sheet
NameSir Henry St John HALFORD 3rd Bt, 7371
Birth1828
Death1897
Notes for Sir Henry St John HALFORD 3rd Bt
The first Chairman of
Leicestershire County Council (established
1889) and a very prominent Volunteer and marksman.
He married Elizabeth Ursula Bagshawe (27 October 1829-30 January 1897), daughter of W.J. Bagshawe,of The Oaks near Sheffield.[10] The last Sir Henry had no direct descendants.
On his death, Wistow Hall was inherited by his friend the
3rd Lord Cottesloe, who as T F Fremantle had joined with him and W E Metford in their experimental work on the rifle.
The 4th Baron Cottesloe, whose daughter and son-in-law inherited Wistow Hall in 1958, was named partly for this friend of his father.