Question: Shireburn or Sherburne Baronetcy, of Stonyhurst a 300 acre rural estate owned by the Society of Jesus was created for whom on 4 February 1686?

St Beuno's College in Tremeirchion, near St Asaph in North Wales, UK, was built in 1848 as a place of study for Jesuits.  It was built as a "theologate", a place where trainee priests study theology, along the lines of a small Oxbridge college.  Up to this time prospective Jesuit priests studied in Stonyhurst College, near Clitheroe in rural Lancashire and for a short time abroad, but the increasing numbers put a strain on the old buildings.  In 1846 Fr Randal Lythgoe, the then Superior of the Society of Jesus in Britain, while visiting a Jesuit parish at Holywell in Flintshire, travelled to see some farm land that the Society owned near Tremeirchion, and immediately decided that this should be the site for a new theologate.  In early Victorian days, when epidemics of typhoid and cholera regularly swept towns and cities killing large numbers, the fresh country air of North Wales was considered to provide a suitable environment in which to prepare young men to go and serve in the new industrial towns and cities.  The dedication of the college – not to a traditional Jesuit saint but to a well-known local abbot, St Beuno – is very unusual in the Society of Jesus. <SEP> Stonyhurst is the name of a 300 acre rural estate owned by the Society of Jesus near Clitheroe in Lancashire, England.  It is mainly occupied by Stonyhurst College, its preparatory school Stonyhurst Saint Mary's Hall and the parish church, St Peter's. <SEP>  It was created on 4 February 1686 for Nicholas Shireburn.  His only son predeceased him and the title became extinct on Shireburn's death in 1717.  The substantial family estates devolved on his only surviving daughter, Maria Winifred Francisca Shireburn, wife of Thomas Howard, 8th Duke of Norfolk.  The Duchess of Norfolk died childless in 1754 when the Shireburn estates passed to the children of her aunt Elizabeth Shireburn, wife of Thomas Weld, of Lulworth. The Shireburn or Sherburne Baronetcy, of Stonyhurst in the County of Lancaster, was a title in the Baronetage of England.  In 1794 the Welds donated the Stonyhurst estate to the English Jesuits whose school on the continent was in danger due to the French Revolutionary Wars, and it became the seat of a Catholic school, Stonyhurst College. <SEP> Kimball Castle is the former summer estate of railroad magnate Benjamin Ames Kimball.  It is located on a prominent hill overlooking Lake Winnipesaukee in the town of Gilford, New Hampshire, United States.  Although portions of the Kimball's original 300 acre estate have been subdivided, much of it remains conservation land managed by the town.  The 20.1 acre subdivided portion on which the 2-1/2 story medieval-style castle stands is privately owned and no longer part of the Charlotte Kimball trust.  Benjamin Kimball, a director of railroad companies operating in the region, built the castle and estate outbuildings beginning in 1894, and used it as his summer estate until his death in 1920, in his home in Concord.  The castle was built by Italian stonemasons using local granite and materials imported from Europe; its construction cost was about $50,000.