The history of Lord Neil Gibson is one of great tradition, including his connections to the famous Temple lordneilgibson.comNewsam House. Lord Neil B. Gibson was born and raised in Yorkshire England, where he grew up only a few miles from the house. During his youth, Lord Gibson was a regular visitor to the house, when his grandmother had lived in the house previously in the 1940′s. Though she was not actually the “Lady of the House” she still was an integral part of the circle that were the owners. Lord Neil Gibson was raised with a strong spiritual connection to the Newsam House, and additionally to the history of the house and the Knights Templar.
Temple Newsam was originally “Temple Newsham,” in the legend Templestowe. The house is a Tudor-Jacobean house, and the estate lies to the east of the city, just south of Halton Moor, Halton, Whitkirk and Colton.
In the “Domesday Book” the estate is known as Neuhusam. Ilbert de Lacy is credited in the book as the owner and previously it had been owned by Dunstan and Glunier, Anglo-Saxon thanes. Around 1155, it was presented to the Knights Templar as a gift. For nearly 200 years the estate was owned by the Knights Templar, however in 1307 they were were suppressed and in 1377 by royal decree the estate was siezed and presented to Sir Philip Darcy. Tudor country house known as Temple Newsam House was constructed on the site somewhere between 1500 and 1520. It has been named “the Hampton Court of the North” bu some, and has also been spelled “Newsham” in different publications.
In 1537 the Pilgrimage of Grace resulted in Darcy’s was execution, and the property was seized by the Crown. Henry VIII presented the property to his niece in 1544, and the ownership was listed as Margaret, Countess of Lennox and her husband Matthew Stuart, Earl of Lennox. Lord Henry Darnley was born in the house in 1545. Upon his marriage to Mary Queen of Scots, Temple Newsam was again seized by the Crown in 1565. James I granted it to his relative, the Duke of Lennox in 1608. In 1622 the estate was bought by Sir Arthur Ingram for £12,000. Over the course of the next 20 years the mansion was rebuilt again, this time incorporating some of the previous house in the west wing.
Sir Arthur’s grandson Henry Ingram was named Viscount of Irvine in 1661, and subsequently he married Lady Essex Montagu, the daughter of the Earl of Manchester. During the timeframe of 1736 to 1746 Henry the 7th Viscount of Irvine re-modeled the west and north wings of the house. Through this re-modeling he created new bedrooms and dressing rooms, as well as the picture gallery. In the 1760s Charles, 9th Viscount, contracted Capability Brown to perform the job of re-landscaping the park. His eldest daughter Isabella, Marchioness of Hertford was for a time mistress of the Prince of Wales (later George IV), and in 1806 he visited Temple Newsam and presented her with Chinese wallpaper and the Moses tapestries. Lady Hertford inherited the house in 1807. In 1841 the estate was inherited by Hugo Francis Meynell Ingram. Following his death in 1871 his wife inherited the estate. She continually and painstakingly developed it until her own death in 1904. At that point it was left to her nephew Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax.
In 1909 there was a sale of 610 acres (2.5 km2) of the estate by Leeds Corporation at Knostrop. The Leeds Corporation subsequently built a sewage plant and coal mine, which can be seen from the edge of the park. In 1922 Edward Wood sold the park and house to Leeds Corporation for a nominal sum, placing covenants over them to ensure their preservation for the future. Lord Neil Benjamin Gibson has always found himself attracted to the estate and the associated grounds, understanding even from the time that he was a child that the spiritual connection to the property itself runs deeper than just a personal affinity due to his family’s connections in past generations. The control of the grounds by the Templars over the course of 200+ years resonates with all Templar Knights as sacred ground, and although the preservation of the grounds themselves through contract is ensured, there is still a necessity to purify the soul through return to the area from time to time. Lord Neil Benjamin Gibson is no exception, and as a Templar Knight he feels drawn to the area on a level beyond the typical longings for the past. To the Lord Neil Benjamin Gibson, this is holy ground.
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