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up to Oxford in 1722,* and was elected to Parliament 

 soon after coming of age, serving for Wigan in 1727, 

 and for the county from 1736 to 1741 and from 

 1750 to 1760.' He died in 1762, leaving six 

 daughters. 3 The eldest, Anna Maria, succeeded to 

 Bold and his other estates, and dying unmarried in 

 1813, aged eighty-one, 4 was succeeded by Peter son 

 of Thomas Patten of Bank Hall, Warrington, by 

 Dorothea his wife, younger sister of Anna Maria 

 Bold. Peter, upon succeeding to the family estates 

 in 1814, took the surname of Bold. He served in 

 Parliament for various constituencies, and on his 

 death in 1 8 1 9,* left four daughters as coheirs. Of 

 these Mary, the eldest, succeeded to Bold. She 

 married at Florence, and afterwards at Farnworth, 

 Prince Sapieha of Poland, but died in 1824 without 

 issue. Bold then passed to her sister Dorothea, who 

 married Henry Hoghton, afterwards baronet ; he 

 subsequently assumed the name of Bold in addition to 

 his own surname. 6 Their son, Henry Bold-Hoghton, 

 sold the Bold estates in 1858 and later, and in 1862 

 discontinued the use of Bold as part of his sur- 

 name. The purchaser of Bold Hall, William Whitacre 

 Tipping/ died intestate in March, 1889, the estate 

 passing to the next of kin, Mrs. Wyatt, then of 

 Hawley Parsonage, Hampshire. About ten years 

 later, after various attempts had been made to dispose 

 of the estate, it was purchased by a syndicate, regis- 



tered under the style of the Bold Hall Estate, Limited; 

 the hall, much dilapidated, was taken down, and a 

 colliery opened. 



The mansion was thus described in 1860 : 'The 

 hall stands on a gentle elevation commanding ex- 

 tensive scenery to the south, extending over a fine 

 expanse of park to the distant hills of Cheshire ; to 

 the north and east it overlooks the pleasure grounds 

 and the finely timbered north park with its groves of 

 unrivalled oaks. It is a handsome, uniform, and very 

 substantial edifice, adorned with fine stone columns 

 and corresponding decorative dressings, designed and 

 erected about 1732 under the superintendence of the 

 eminent Italian architect Leoni.' 8 



QUICK? now forgotten, was sometimes styled a 

 vill. About the reign of Henry II Tuger the Elder, 

 as lord of Bold, gave half a plough-land to Albert, 

 which was held by Albert's son Henry in 1212 

 by an annual service of 4/. 6</. 10 This estate is identi- 

 fied as being in the Whike, because Henry son 

 of Albert was a benefactor of Cockersand Abbey," 

 and their lands lay in the ' Quickfield.' A charter 

 of about 1 270 shows that part of the Whike had 

 been recovered by the lord of Bold." Another portion 

 was held by the Rixton family. 13 More than a century 

 later the messuage called the Whike was held of the 

 Bolds by Nicholas Penketh for a rent of 4 6s. Sd'." 

 A local family took surname from it. 14 



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