Denby Grange, Yorkshire, England. Further historical information.

DENBY GRANGE

DENBY GRANGE, (the seat of Sir John Lister Kaye, Bart.) in the township of Whitley, and parish of Kirkheaton; 6 miles from Huddersfield, 7 from Wakefield.

Denby Grange is seated in a fertile valley, through which winds the river Colne, and bounded by high hills, richly cultivated. The family of Kaye is of great antiquity in this County, being descended from Sir A. Kaye, one of the Knights of the warlike table of Prince Arthur. Sir John Kaye, of Woodsome, Knight, was advanced to the dignity of a Baronet, by King Charles I. He served that unfortunate monarch as colonel of horse and suffered much during the civil wars, but happily survived the usurpation of Oliver Cromwell, and witnessed the restoration of King Charles II. The second son of the second Baronet was George Kaye, Esq. of Denby Grange; he married Dorothy daughter of Robert Saville, and dying in 1707, his son succeeded to the property of his two uncles, Christopher Lister, Esq. and Sir Arthur Kaye, Bart.; he assumed the name of Lister, in addition to his own, and became the fourth Baronet of his family; and upon the death of the late Sir Richard Kaye, L.L.D. Dean of Lincoln, who was the sixth Baronet, without issue, the title became extinct, but was renewed, Dec. 28, 1812, in the person of the present proprietor of Denby Grange, sole heir to the estates of the families of Lister and Kaye, by will. --Betham's Baronetage. --Neale's Views.