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He was cradled in the traditions of Whiggism, and to me one of his most delightful attributes was inability to assimilate the spirit of modern Liberalism, whether in the sphere of politics or of social or religious thought. With Byram my memory associated two neighboring houses Fryston, then the home of Lord Houghton, and Kippax, that of the Blands.
Kippax, which is close to Fryston, was, in the eighteenth century, a fairly large, but not notably large, building, but when Lord Rockingham began the construction of Wentworth the late Mr. Bland's ancestor declared that, whatever happened, he would not be outbuilt by anybody, and that Kippax, in spite of Wentworth, should be the longest house in Yorkshire.
Not many years since, a Mr. Gargrave, believed to be one of them, filled the mean employment of parish-clerk of Kippax. "A similar melancholy narrative applies to another great Yorkshire house.
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