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Edward Bull, 1836
 

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88 psl. - Sheriff of Denbighshire in 1828. The Heskeths were established in England by one of the companions in arms of the Conqueror, and have flourished in the county of Lancaster for more than seven hundred years, being now in the actual enjoyment of the greater part of the landed property acquired at the commencement of that remote era. The family became eventually separated into two distinguished branches — the Heskeths of Rufford, now represented by Sir Thomas Dalrymple Hesketh, Bart; and the Heskeths...

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