Sir Henry, who was High Sheriff of Co. Louth, 1692, and of Co. Armagh, 1708,
was raised to the Irish peerage as Baron Ferrard, of Beaulieu, soon after
the accession of George I. Like his distinguished grandfather, Lord Ferrard
was for some time Governor of Drogheda.f He married, 28th July, 1683, at
Combermere, in Cheshire, Arabella, { daughter of Sir Robert Cotton, 1st baronet
of Combermere. He occupied this house till his death, which took place
from apoplexy on 3rd November, 173 1, at the age of seventy. Both his
sons having predeceased him without male issue, the line of Tichborne
failed, the title became extinct, and the property passed to his son-in-law,
William Aston, M.P., who had married his daughter, the Hon. Salisbury
Tichborne. It was this Mr. Aston, who, in order to give employment during
a time of scarcity, made the two lakes in the demesne, and there is a picture
here representing him pointing towards them. He died of apoplexy at Castle
Bellingham on 23rd August, 1744, and was succeeded by his son, Tichborne
Aston, of Beaulieu, M.P. for Ardee. During his brief ownership the house
had a distinguished tenant in the person of Lord Chief Justice Singleton, a
lawyer of great distinction, and one of the few who enjoyed the favour and
friendship of the fourth Earl of Chesterfield while Lord Lieutenant in 1746 —
a circumstance which probably led to the statement, more than once printed,
that Lord Chesterfield himself had occupied Beaulieu for some months. He
was a man of literary tastes, and extended his patronage to Henry Jones, stated

* See D'Israeli's Curiosities 0/ Literature.
•j- Letter of 13th June, 1728, from Thomas Clutterbuck, to Mr. Tickell, in British Departmental
Correspondence, Public Record Office, Dublin.
