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==Gledhow Hall==
==Gledhow Hall==
[[File:GledhowHall07b.JPG|thumb|Gledhow Hall]]
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bf/GledhowHall07b.JPGIn 1885 Kitson purchased Gledhow Hall<ref>{{cite web|last1=Bradford|first1=Eveleigh|title=Headingley: 'this Pleasant Rural Village' ; Clues to the Past|url=https://books.google.com.au/books?id=hIdc1pziHmoC&pg=PA110&lpg=PA110&dq=gledhow+hall+purchased+by+james+kitson+1885&source=bl&ots=XaWwzx0zsT&sig=cDHjjJF929v7JRCQqgMVKtGcRs4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjCo7bk89HOAhUEn5QKHSypDXk4ChDoAQgkMAI#v=onepage&q=gledhow%20hall%20purchased%20by%20james%20kitson%201885&f=false|publisher=Jeremy Mills Publishing, 2008 (Page 110)|accessdate=21 August 2016}}</ref> and estate in [[Gledhow]], Leeds, between [[Chapel Allerton]] and [[Roundhay]]. It was the subject of a painting by the artist, [[J.M.W. Turner]] in 1816. Kitson's great grandson, Guy Kitson Nevett would later inherit the painting.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Reed|first1=Michael|title=Gledhow Hall|url=https://houseandheritage.org/2016/09/05/gledhow-hall/|publisher=House and Heritage - David Poole |year=2016|accessdate=15 August 2016}}</ref> During the [[First World War]], Kitson's son, [[Albert Kitson, 2nd Baron Airedale]], offered the hall for use as a Voluntary Aid Detachment hospital. Kitson's granddaughter, the Hon Doris Kitson, was a volunteer nurse at the hall.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Gledhow Hall scrapbook |url=https://secretlibraryleeds.net/2014/07/25/the-gledhow-hall-scrapbook/|publisher= Leeds Libraries|date=25 July 2014|accessdate=25 August 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Reed|first1=Michael|title=Gledhow Hall|url=https://houseandheritage.org/2016/09/05/gledhow-hall/|publisher=House and Heritage - David Poole |year=2016|accessdate=15 August 2016}}</ref> His daughter-in-law Florence, Lady Airedale maintained an interest in nursing after the [[Great War]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Lady Airedale’s Interest|url=https://www.genesreunited.com.au/searchbna/results?memberlastsubclass=none&searchhistorykey=0&keywords=st%20lute%20%20lady%20airedale%20%20clergy&county=west%20yorkshire%2c%20england|accessdate=20 November 2017|publisher=Leeds Mercury, West Yorkshire, England|date=5 July 1922|quote=I hear that Lady Airedale is interested in tommorrow's ball in aid of the Hostel of St Lute. The Hostel is a nursing home for the clergy, their wives and children. One of Lady Airedale's daughters is married to a doctor.}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Rayner|first1=Gordon|title='Middle-class' Duchess of Cambridge's relative wore crown and attended George V's coronation|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/kate-middleton/10307469/Middle-class-Duchess-of-Cambridges-relative-wore-crown-and-attended-George-Vs-coronation.html|work=Daily Telegraph|date=13 September 2013|page=7|accessdate=15 February 2015|quote=Baroness Airedale was a (second) cousin of Michael Middleton’s grandmother, Olive. She lived in a grand country house near Leeds called Gledhow Hall, which was once painted by JMW Turner, and was also invited to the coronation of the Queen’s father, George VI.}}</ref> Kitson had redecorated the hall upon purchasing it and had entertained lavishly, including playing host to [[William Ewart Gladstone|Prime Minister William Gladstone]] and his son, [[Herbert John Gladstone|Herbert]], who was a witness at Kitson's second marriage in 1881, to Mary Laura Smith.<ref>{{cite web|last=Web|first=Kanga|title=James Kitson|url=http://fretwell.kangaweb.com.au/pdfs/James%20Kitson%20Jnr.pdf|work=History of Kitson family|publisher=Kangaweb Pty Ltd|accessdate=23 August 2013}}</ref> He commissioned [[Burmantofts Pottery]] to create an elaborate bathroom of faience ([[glazed architectural terra-cotta]]) in honour of a visit from the Prince of Wales (later [[Edward VII]]) circa 1885.<ref>{{cite book|last=Campbell|first=Gordon|title=The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts|year=2006|publisher=Oxford University Press|page=162}}</ref>
In 1885 Kitson purchased Gledhow Hall<ref>{{cite web|last1=Bradford|first1=Eveleigh|title=Headingley: 'this Pleasant Rural Village' ; Clues to the Past|url=https://books.google.com.au/books?id=hIdc1pziHmoC&pg=PA110&lpg=PA110&dq=gledhow+hall+purchased+by+james+kitson+1885&source=bl&ots=XaWwzx0zsT&sig=cDHjjJF929v7JRCQqgMVKtGcRs4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjCo7bk89HOAhUEn5QKHSypDXk4ChDoAQgkMAI#v=onepage&q=gledhow%20hall%20purchased%20by%20james%20kitson%201885&f=false|publisher=Jeremy Mills Publishing, 2008 (Page 110)|accessdate=21 August 2016}}</ref> and estate in [[Gledhow]], Leeds, between [[Chapel Allerton]] and [[Roundhay]]. It was the subject of a painting by the artist, [[J.M.W. Turner]] in 1816. Kitson's great grandson, Guy Kitson Nevett would later inherit the painting.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Reed|first1=Michael|title=Gledhow Hall|url=https://houseandheritage.org/2016/09/05/gledhow-hall/|publisher=House and Heritage - David Poole |year=2016|accessdate=15 August 2016}}</ref> During the [[First World War]], Kitson's son, [[Albert Kitson, 2nd Baron Airedale]], offered the hall for use as a Voluntary Aid Detachment hospital. Kitson's granddaughter, the Hon Doris Kitson, was a volunteer nurse at the hall.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Gledhow Hall scrapbook |url=https://secretlibraryleeds.net/2014/07/25/the-gledhow-hall-scrapbook/|publisher= Leeds Libraries|date=25 July 2014|accessdate=25 August 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Reed|first1=Michael|title=Gledhow Hall|url=https://houseandheritage.org/2016/09/05/gledhow-hall/|publisher=House and Heritage - David Poole |year=2016|accessdate=15 August 2016}}</ref> His daughter-in-law Florence, Lady Airedale maintained an interest in nursing after the [[Great War]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Lady Airedale’s Interest|url=https://www.genesreunited.com.au/searchbna/results?memberlastsubclass=none&searchhistorykey=0&keywords=st%20lute%20%20lady%20airedale%20%20clergy&county=west%20yorkshire%2c%20england|accessdate=20 November 2017|publisher=Leeds Mercury, West Yorkshire, England|date=5 July 1922|quote=I hear that Lady Airedale is interested in tommorrow's ball in aid of the Hostel of St Lute. The Hostel is a nursing home for the clergy, their wives and children. One of Lady Airedale's daughters is married to a doctor.}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Rayner|first1=Gordon|title='Middle-class' Duchess of Cambridge's relative wore crown and attended George V's coronation|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/kate-middleton/10307469/Middle-class-Duchess-of-Cambridges-relative-wore-crown-and-attended-George-Vs-coronation.html|work=Daily Telegraph|date=13 September 2013|page=7|accessdate=15 February 2015|quote=Baroness Airedale was a (second) cousin of Michael Middleton’s grandmother, Olive. She lived in a grand country house near Leeds called Gledhow Hall, which was once painted by JMW Turner, and was also invited to the coronation of the Queen’s father, George VI.}}</ref> Kitson had redecorated the hall upon purchasing it and had entertained lavishly, including playing host to [[William Ewart Gladstone|Prime Minister William Gladstone]] and his son, [[Herbert John Gladstone|Herbert]], who was a witness at Kitson's second marriage in 1881, to Mary Laura Smith.<ref>{{cite web|last=Web|first=Kanga|title=James Kitson|url=http://fretwell.kangaweb.com.au/pdfs/James%20Kitson%20Jnr.pdf|work=History of Kitson family|publisher=Kangaweb Pty Ltd|accessdate=23 August 2013}}</ref> He commissioned [[Burmantofts Pottery]] to create an elaborate bathroom of faience ([[glazed architectural terra-cotta]]) in honour of a visit from the Prince of Wales (later [[Edward VII]]) circa 1885.<ref>{{cite book|last=Campbell|first=Gordon|title=The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts|year=2006|publisher=Oxford University Press|page=162}}</ref>


==Honours==
==Honours==

Revision as of 07:50, 22 November 2017

Sir James Kitson c1895
Lord Airedale,
Oil on canvas, John Singer Sargent 1905

James Kitson, 1st Baron Airedale PC, DSc (22 September 1835 – 16 March 1911) was a British politician of the Liberal Party, first a Member of Parliament and then a peer. He was known as Sir James Kitson from 1886, until he was elevated to the peerage in 1907. He was a prominent Unitarian in Leeds.

He was the younger son of James Kitson of Elmete Hall (1807–1885), a locomotive manufacturer who founded Kitson and Company, and his wife Ann Newton. James (Jnr) went to school in Wakefield and studied chemistry and natural sciences at University College London.

Career

With his elder brother, Frederick William (b.1829), James (Jnr.) developed the iron foundry that their father bought for them into a large company; Monkbridge Iron and Steel Works. Its gave James the time, money and influence to pursue other interests including politics, becoming President of the Leeds Liberal Association, and running the election campaign for William Ewart Gladstone. He became an MP in 1892, continuing to 1907, supporting education, Irish home rule, and old age pensions. Kitson was a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers and the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. He supported the Mechanics' Institute and the Yorkshire College, the forerunner of the University of Leeds, which awarded him an honorary doctorate (DSc) in 1904. He was the first Lord Mayor of Leeds (1896 and 1897).[1]

The Kitsons were closely linked to Mill Hill Chapel, the Unitarian church on Leeds City Square made famous by the ministry of Joseph Priestley a century before. In 1897 he paid for an extension to the vestry. William Morris designed a window which was dedicated to Kitson's mother Ann, who died in 1865. After his death, Archibald Keightley Nicholson created a window in his name, representing the continuation of Christianity.[2] In the early twentieth century the chapel was described as having "a small but politically active and very influential congregation led by the Revd Charles Hargrove and Sir James Kitson".[3]

Gledhow Hall

Gledhow Hall

In 1885 Kitson purchased Gledhow Hall[4] and estate in Gledhow, Leeds, between Chapel Allerton and Roundhay. It was the subject of a painting by the artist, J.M.W. Turner in 1816. Kitson's great grandson, Guy Kitson Nevett would later inherit the painting.[5] During the First World War, Kitson's son, Albert Kitson, 2nd Baron Airedale, offered the hall for use as a Voluntary Aid Detachment hospital. Kitson's granddaughter, the Hon Doris Kitson, was a volunteer nurse at the hall.[6][7] His daughter-in-law Florence, Lady Airedale maintained an interest in nursing after the Great War.[8][9] Kitson had redecorated the hall upon purchasing it and had entertained lavishly, including playing host to Prime Minister William Gladstone and his son, Herbert, who was a witness at Kitson's second marriage in 1881, to Mary Laura Smith.[10] He commissioned Burmantofts Pottery to create an elaborate bathroom of faience (glazed architectural terra-cotta) in honour of a visit from the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) circa 1885.[11]

Honours

Kitson was created a baronet on 28 August 1886, and on 17 July 1907 was raised to the peerage as the first Baron Airedale, of Gledhow in the West Riding of the County of York. He died in Paris on 16 March 1911.[12] His body was brought to Leeds for a funeral and burial at Roundhay.

Family

He married (1) Emily Christina Cliff, on 20 September 1860. They had five (surviving) children.

He married (2) Mary Laura Smith, on 1 June 1881. They had two children.

Lord Mayors

His older brother's son, Frederick James Kitson of Gledhow Grove was Lord Mayor of Leeds in 1908.[14] He died in 1935.[15] His wife, Florence, died on 26 April 1943,[16] the year that the lord mayor of Leeds was Jessie Beatrice Kitson (b.1877) - his first cousin. Jessie Kitson was the daughter of his younger brother, John Hawthorn Kitson (d.1899). Like his father, niece and nephew, James Kitson (Jnr.) had been Mayor/Lord Mayor of Leeds: in 1896 and 1897.[17]

References

  1. ^ "List of Mayors and Lord Mayor". Leeds Council.
  2. ^ Memorial Window to the Late Lord Airedale. Report of the Proceedings at the Unveiling Ceremony ... Together with a Description of the Window. 8 page booklet published by the chapel.
  3. ^ Stuff, Good. "Mill Hill Chapel, City and Hunslet, Leeds".
  4. ^ Bradford, Eveleigh. "Headingley: 'this Pleasant Rural Village' ; Clues to the Past". Jeremy Mills Publishing, 2008 (Page 110). Retrieved 21 August 2016.
  5. ^ Reed, Michael (2016). "Gledhow Hall". House and Heritage - David Poole. Retrieved 15 August 2016.
  6. ^ "The Gledhow Hall scrapbook". Leeds Libraries. 25 July 2014. Retrieved 25 August 2017.
  7. ^ Reed, Michael (2016). "Gledhow Hall". House and Heritage - David Poole. Retrieved 15 August 2016.
  8. ^ "Lady Airedale's Interest". Leeds Mercury, West Yorkshire, England. 5 July 1922. Retrieved 20 November 2017. I hear that Lady Airedale is interested in tommorrow's ball in aid of the Hostel of St Lute. The Hostel is a nursing home for the clergy, their wives and children. One of Lady Airedale's daughters is married to a doctor.
  9. ^ Rayner, Gordon (13 September 2013). "'Middle-class' Duchess of Cambridge's relative wore crown and attended George V's coronation". Daily Telegraph. p. 7. Retrieved 15 February 2015. Baroness Airedale was a (second) cousin of Michael Middleton's grandmother, Olive. She lived in a grand country house near Leeds called Gledhow Hall, which was once painted by JMW Turner, and was also invited to the coronation of the Queen's father, George VI.
  10. ^ Web, Kanga. "James Kitson" (PDF). History of Kitson family. Kangaweb Pty Ltd. Retrieved 23 August 2013.
  11. ^ Campbell, Gordon (2006). The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts. Oxford University Press. p. 162.
  12. ^ Iron & Steel Trades Journal and Iron Trade Circular. Vol. 88. 1911. p. 264.
  13. ^ "Rt Hon Sir James Kitson, 1st Baron Airedale of Gledhow". Red1st.com. Retrieved 19 September 2015.
  14. ^ "LONG DELAYED SCHEME". Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer. West Yorkshire, England. Retrieved 14 February 2016. ...the patients at Beckett's Park. Last summer His Majesty's Office of Works purchased from Mr. F. J. Kitson, Gledhow Grove, formerly the residence of the Hon. Sir Gervase Beckett, M.P. for North Leeds. The house and grounds, which occupy an area of about acres..
  15. ^ "Latest Wills FORMER LEEDS LORD MAYOR Mr. F. J. Kitson Leaves £l,OOO for Hospitals £115,000 ESTATE Mr. Frederick James Kitson,". Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer. West Yorkshire, England. Retrieved 14 February 2016. LORD MAYOR Mr. F. J. Kitson Leaves £l,OOO for Hospitals £115,000 ESTATE Mr. Frederick James Kitson, of Quarry Dene, Weetwood, Leeds, a former Lord Mayor of Leeds, and a nephew of the first Lord Airedale, who died on November 19, 1935, aged 74, left (net....
  16. ^ "Obituary MRS. F. J. KITSON EX-LADY MAYORESS OF LEEDS Mrs. Florence (James) Kitson, widow of Mr. Frederick James Kitson (a former Lord Mayor of Leeds 1908)". Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer. West Yorkshire, England. Retrieved 14 February 2016. Obituary (26 April 1943) MRS. F. J. KITSON EX-LADY MAYORESS OF LEEDS Mrs. Florence Kltson, widow of Mr. Frederick Jumes Kitson (a former Lord Mayor of Leeds, and (a first) cousin of Miss J. B. Kltson. present Lord Mayor of the city), died yesterday at her residence, Hill Court....
  17. ^ "Formal Election". Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer. West Yorkshire, England. 14 November 1942. Retrieved 23 September 2015. (Beatrice Jessie Kitson came from a) distinguished Leeds family. She was born in Hyde Terrace 1876, the daughter of the late Mr John Hawthorn Kitson (son of James Kitson Senior born 1807), head of the famous Airedale Foundry, who married Miss Jessie Ellershaw, a member another well-known Leeds family...
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Colne Valley
1892–1907 		Succeeded by
Party political offices
Preceded by President of the National Liberal Federation
1883–1890 		Succeeded by
Peerage of the United Kingdom
New creation Baron Airedale
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Baronetage of the United Kingdom
New creation Baronet
(of Gledhow)
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