George White

He was the last member of this line to reside at and to own Hutton Hall in Essex.

(Realtor's listing, 14 October 2010) The present hall, listed Grade II, dates from the 1720s, and is the third house known to have existed on the site, which dates back to Roman times. According to local historian Mary Kenyon, the original dwelling was a moated Saxon homestead at the heart of a substantial estate valued at £6 in Domesday, the rents from which were used by William the Conqueror to help build Battle Abbey in Sussex. During the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, Jack Straw, the leader of the Essex peasants, burned down the manor before advancing with his followers on London. Hutton Hall was rebuilt in Tudor times, and, following the dissolution of Battle Abbey in 1538, Henry VIII gave the estate to the infamous Richard Rich, Chancellor of the Exchequer, as reward for his betrayal of Sir Thomas More. Thereafter, Hutton Hall had a succession of occupiers until 1720, when it was owned by Robert Surman, deputy cashier of the ill-fated South Sea Company, which collapsed that same year. The interior of the house was seriously damaged by fire again around this time.