A much longer and more detailed version of the life of G. Derby , High Sheriff of Derbyshire — Not counting workers who lived in associated cottages, the family had 13 servants including two governesses living in the Hall at the time of the Census, 7 at the time of the Census, 13 at the time of the Census, 12 including a governess at the time of the Census, 7 at the time of the Census and 6 including a governess at the time of the Census.
A photo of the south front of Ogston Hall, taken late in the second half of the nineteenth century or the first decade of the twentieth century. The Turbutts were a well-to-do, politically conservative, Derbyshire family whose name can be traced back to the early seventeenth century.
A house had stood on the site of Ogston Hall since the Middle Ages, but after the Turbutts acquired the estate from the Revells in , a new Hall was built — This was subsequently enlarged —52 and and Turbutt, who trained as an architect from to c. The Hall also contained a fine library see below. A major portion of the estate, some acres, was broken up into 56 lots and sold on 19 March As a committed churchman, William Gladwin had a benevolent attitude towards his tenants and employees that was prefigured, when a senior boy at Harrow, by his ability to recognize every boy in the school.
Although English agriculture was about to experience a slump that would last until the end of the nineteenth century, William Gladwin managed Ogston with care.
Nevertheless, William Gladwin was an active Conservative. In he contested the old East Derbyshire Parliamentary Division created for the election and abolished in under the Redistribution of Seats Act in order to create seven new constituencies , but was defeated by the Liberal Unionist candidate Alfred Barnes, JP — And when the new constituency of Chesterfield was created in , Barnes became its MP, too.
