Louisa Lucy, Dowager Lady Sitwell (1827-1911)
Raised
in the village of Weston, and at the hall of that name in
Northhamptonshire,  Lady Louisa Hely-Hutchinson married the Third
Baronet Sir Sitwell Reresby Sitwell (1820-1862) in 1857.
Bereaved in 1862 she came to Scarborough with her two infant children,
Florence (1858-1930) and Sir George (1860-1943). At the age of two he
was the nation's youngest Baronet.
At first living in "Sunnyside", a modest villa she had built adjacent
Royal Crescent, from 1867, she moved into this house, Wood End in 1870.
During her 35 years here she used it as the base for her church and
charitable work. The latter is most notably seen in the "Home of Hope",
for destitute girls centred on "Red House", Sitwell Street in
Falsgrave. Supreme was the hospital established at Kings Cliff in 1883.
"Haybrow" at Scalby was purchased in 1893 as a summer residence and place of relaxation for Anglican clergy.
She spent her declining years at Bournemouth, dying there on 31st October 1911.
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