page_title: Rowton Hall Hotel
section_title: Residents after 1870
hierarchical_section_title: Rowton Hall Hotel / Residents after 1870
caption_attribution_description: English: Sale notice for Rowton Hall, Cheshire, 1871
context_page_description: Rowton Hall Hotel is a historic stately home, now run as a hotel in Rowton, Cheshire, England. The hall was originally built in the 14th century and was rebuilt in 1779 in the Georgian style. The Battle of Rowton Heath took place in the grounds in 1643. It contains the oak-panelled Langdale Restaurant.
context_section_description: The next resident was Colonel Algernon Robert Garrett (1824-1903) who lived there with his wife Elizabeth Harriet King until about 1889. He was the son of General Sir Robert Garrett. After him the Macfie family became the owners and they remained there for over thirty years.
  John William Macfie (1844-1924) was a member of a family who owned a very large well established sugar refining firm called Macfie and Sons. He was the manager of the Liverpool branch of the company. He was born in 1844 in Liverpool and in 1867 he married Helen Wahab, daughter of Major General Charles Wahab. The couple had ten children one of whom, Robert Andrew Scott Macfie, became famous as an author. When his father died in 1893 he inherited Dreghorn Castle in Scotland but he did not live there instead preferring to remain at Rowton Hall. John died in 1924 and the Hall was sold to James Ryder Heap.
  James Ryder Heap (1865-1954) was born in 1865 in Liverpool. He worked in his family company of Joseph Heap and Sons rice merchants and then established his own firm called James R Heap and Co in Rangoon. The two firms eventually amalgamated and he became one of the Managing Directors. In 1903 he married Margaret Joyce Holmes, daughter of the Rev Henry Comber Holmes. The couple had two children, a son who died young and a daughter. When James died in 1954 the Hall was sold and it became a hotel.
caption: Sale notice for Rowton Hall 1871.
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