FAMOUS RESIDENTS &VISITORS TO THE TOWERS

1199 Last Visit of St Hugh of Lincoln
1248 King Henry III
1291 King Edward I
1483 King Richard III
1501 Margaret Beaufort, Mother of Henry VII
1533 - 1534 Katherine of Aragon
1541 King Henry VIII and 5th Wife - Catherine Howard
1551 Henry and Charles Brandon, sons of the Duke of Suffolk
1619 King James I
1667 Samuel Pepys
1750 Count Zingandorf - First Bishop of the Moravian Sect in England
1790 Hon John Byng, later Viscount Torrington
1814 The Prince Regent, later King George IV

 

A Brief History of the Towers

"Arthur W. Marshall, Owner of Buckden Towers"
A Booklet by David Thomas BSc 

Famous Residents and Visitors

Queen Katherine of Aragon

History of the Parish of St Hugh of Lincoln

The Claretian Missionaries