Siege of Tsingtao
Since that time the Barnardiston Family have owned the Manor passing it to rightful heirs for more than two centuries until recently, when Nathaniel Geoffrey Barnardiston, great great nephew of Major-General Nathaniel Walter Barnardiston, Commander in the Siege of Tsingtao, and son of Colonel Nathaniel Montague Barnardiston passed the Lordship to Datu Sadja Matthew Pajares Yngson, DCPS KCR FRSA, from Dominica and the Philippines, who is a Commercial Diplomat and ambassador and Secretary-General of the Sultanate of Sulu. He is the first Lord of non-English descent.