Speke
Hall, near Liverpool, Lancashire, England. Ancestral Seat of the Watt
family from 1795 to 1921. This historic 16th Century Tudor country house
and its 2,400 acre estate were purchased in 1795 by Richard Watt, Esq.
(1751-1798), for the then enormous sum of 73,500 pounds sterling. Watt
was a Liverpool Merchant and Jamaican Plantation Owner who had made his
vast fortune from Sugar and Slavery in Jamaica. The last of the Watts to
live at Speke Hall was Miss Adelaide Watt who died in 1921.
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