Catalogue description Lister Family, Barons Ribblesdale, Family and Estate Records

Deeds of the Lister estate in Gisburn and Malham, other estate records including rentals, accounts and correspondence; family records notably include correspondence and accounts.

Bradfer-Lawrence wrote in 1948 that he collected the Lister records together from three distinct sources. The greater part came to light in a solicitors' office during wartime paper salvage operations and he purchased those. Another large portion were turned over for similar use on the final break-up of the Gisburn Park estate, and a third section came from another wartime clearance from a private house, the owner of which may have been a descendant of an attorney and banker of the Lister family.

Thomas Lister of Gisburn Park [1752-1826]: Thomas Lister was the only son and heir of Thomas Lister [died 1761], by Beatrix, daughter of Jessop Hulton of Hulton Park, Lancashire. Born at Gisburn on 22 March 1752, educated at Eton and Westminster 1764-1769; matriculated at Brasenose College, Oxford May 1769, MA June 1772. On his coming of age in 1773, his uncle Nathaniel Lister who had represented the family borough of Clitheroe since the death of his brother, Thomas Lister [1723-1761], accepted the Chiltern Hundreds, leaving the way clear of Thomas Lister to be returned to Parliament, where he was re-elected at the three next general elections of 1774, 1780 and 1784, retiring at the next election in 1790. During the American War of Independence he raised a regiment 'Lister's Light Dragoons'; and was colonel of the Craven legion of Yeomanry Cavalry, 1790-1826. He was Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1794 and was created Baron Ribblesdale of Gisburn Park on 26 October 1797. Coat of arms: ermine, on a fesse sable, three mullet or, with crest and supporters; motto: 'Retinens vestigia fame': 'Retaining the acheivements of ancestral fame'. His children were Thomas [born 1790], Catherine [born 1793], and Rebecca Adelaide [born 1799/1800]. Nathaniel Lister [c.1726-1793]: Son of Thomas Lister of Gisburn Park [who died in 1745]; Member of Parliament for Clitheroe, 1761-1773; resided at Armitage Park, Staffordshire. As soon as his nephew, Thomas Lister, came of age, he accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. Thomas Lister, 2nd Baron Ribblesdale [1790-1832]: Educated at Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford. In 1826 he married his 2nd cousin Adelaide Lister, daughter of Thomas Lister of Armitage Park, Staffordshire. Their children were Thomas [born 1828], Adelaide [born 1827], Isabel [born 1830] and Elizabeth [born 1833]. His widow in 1835 married Lord John Russell, later 1st Earl Russell, and died in 1838. Thomas Lister, 3rd Baron Ribblesdale [1828-1876]: Born at Armytage Park, the only son and heir of the 2nd Baron Ribblesdale; educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. In 1853 he married Emma Mure, daughter of Colonel William Mure of Caldwell, Ayrshire, and his wife Laura. Appointed cornet Royal Horseguards 1849; deputy lieutenant of the West Riding, 1850. He committed suicide in 1876 when at Leukerbad [Loeche-les-Bains], Switzerland, having fallen on hard times due to his indulgence in racing. His children were Thomas [born 1854], Beatrix, or Beatrice, [born 1856], Martin [born 1857], Adelaide [born 1863], and Reginald [born 1864]. Thomas Lister, 4th Baron Ribblesdale [1854-1925]: Educated at Harrow. Captain in the Rifle Brigade, lord in waiting to Queen Victoria, 1880-1885; and master of H.M.'s buckhounds, 1892-1895; J.P for West Riding of Yorkshire. He married Charlotte ['Charty'] Monkton, daughter of Sir Charles Tennant of The Glen, Peebles-shire, in 1877 and outlived his two sons, Thomas [born 1878] and Charles [born 1887]; also had three daughters: Barbara [born 1880], Laura [born 1892], and Diana [born 1893]. His London residence was at 32 Green Street. His brothers were Martin Lister [1857-1897, resident in Straits Settlements] and Reginald Lister [1865-1912, secretary to the British Legation, Copenhagen 1904, minister plenipotentiary at Paris 1906-1908, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary at Tangier and consul-general in Morocco 1908-1912]. Thomas Lister [1878-1904]: Captain in the 10th Hussars, served throughout the South African War 1899-1902 at the battles of Paardeburgh, Poplar Grove, Driefontein, Diamond river and the relief of Kimberley (mentioned in dispatches, D.S.O.); and with Somaliland Field Force as a Special Service officer, 1903-1904; killed in action in Jidballi, Somaliland, aged 25. Charles Lister [1887-1915]: Educated at St Aubyn's School in Rottingdean, Eton and Balliol College, Oxford; served in the diplomatic services in Rome and Constantinople; 2nd lieutenant in the Middlesex Hussars 1914, Royal Naval Division 1915; died from wounds sustained in the Dardanelles.

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