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    The Beauclerks

    Towards the end of the 17th century, the Norris family again began to play a public role in Liverpool affairs. All four of Thomas's sons sat as MP for the city, and the second son, William VI, was appointed Ambassador to the Court of the Mogul emperor Aurangzeb in 1698. Consequently the estate passed to a granddaughter who had married Lord Sidney Beauclerk, son of the Duke of St Albans and grandson of Charles II and Nell Gwynn.

    None of the three generations of Beauclerks took much interest in Speke. The house fell into disrepair, through being 'very much destroyed by the people (farmers and others) that the Beauclerk family allowed to live there'.

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    The Rose Garden and house at Speke Hall
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