The
Manor of Ingleby was part of the Barony of Stokesley, granted by William Rufus to Guy de Baliol shortly after the
Domesday survey. In the early 1200's Ada, daughter of Hugh de Baliol, was given the Ingleby Estate as a wedding
gift from her father when she married into the powerful Eure family .
The Church of St Andrew, at the entrance to the manor drive, dates from Saxon times and there was probably an important house here then, but the present house was built in the mid-1500's when the Eure family had acquired great wealth under Henry VIII. Ralph, 3rd Lord Eure, was forced to sell the Ingleby Estate in 1608 after incurring huge debts under Elizabeth I.
Sir David Foulis, who bought Ingleby from the Eures, was a courtier of James VI of Scotland and came south of the border when James became King of England. It seems likely that Sir David chose Ingleby because it was half-way between his old home, Edinbrough, and the new Court in London. Sir David was imprisoned in the Fleet in 1633 under Charles I because he objected to certain tax-raising measures and some of his estates had to be sold to pay his fine. He died shortly afterwards and is buried in Ingleby Churchyard.
In the mid 1800's Lady Mary Foulis, only child and heiress of the last Foulis baronet, married the 2nd Lord de L'Isle & Dudley of Penshurst in Kent, a decendant of Sir Philip Sydney the famous Elizabethan poet, soldier and courtier. The 4th Lord de L'Isle sold the Ingleby Estate in 1950 and Stanley Stephenson Cumbor bought Ingleby Manor and the surrounding land and farm. It is now the home of his daughter and grand-daughters.
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