On Thomas Davis`s
death in 1783 George Hayward Tugwell comes into his inheritance and is shown as
the new owner of Freshford House. George Hayward Tugwell, was the eldest of the
children born to William and Elizabeth Tugwell. His childhood was full of tragedy,
with his father and brother-Daniel, both dying when he was just 7 and then his
mother Betty dying 4 years later.He would have spent a few brief years at Freshford
Manor, before moving to his grand parents home in Bradford on Avon.He was to inherit
both his parents and Grandparents substantial properties in Freshford, Bradford
upon Avon and He is still only 16 and the property is let to Henry Fisher, who
in the same year inherits part of the large estate in Limpley Stoke previously
owned by George Dyke of Waterhouse. He himself goes into banking with Robert Clement
at the High Street Bank and is subsequently mayor of Bath in 1817 and 1827. He
is also shown as one of the main shareholders in the Kennet and Avon Canal. In
1804 he moves to Crowe Hall in Widcombe where the family continued to live until
1919 as wealthy Bankers. George later lets the house to a Mr Wilmot and then Mr
Gilpin until 1795 when it is bought by Thomas Joyce.
Westwood. He married Sarah, daughter of Daniel Clutterbuck in 1798. Daniel was
a successful attourney in Bradford upon Avon and formed one of the first banks
in Bradford and Bath. The building in Trym Street,Bath now known as General Wolves
House, designed by Thoomas Greenway has almost the same front as Freshford Manor.
He bought a large house in Widcombe -Crowe Hall, which was to be the home of the
Tugwells until the 1930`s. His property in Freshford was leased to Henry Fisher
who rented the Manor until the year of his death in 1795. The following year George
sold the house and grounds to Thomas Joyce.
George Clutterbuck
, the son of George Hayward Tugwell was born at the family home in Bath and was
baptised in Holy Trinity, Bradford-on-Avon, on the 29th November 1799. He entered
Harrow School in May 1813 and went on to become a succesful banker. On 20th August
1828, at Brighton, he married Christiana Cranstoun Metcalfe and they had four
children: George Tugwell (1829- 1910), Thomas Cranstoun Tugwell(1830-1839),Charles
Crartstoun Tugwell (1830-1839)and Henry William Tugwell (1833-1919).
The eldest son, George, went to Eton College in 1844 and on to Oriel College,
Oxford in 1848 and was Rector of Bathwick, with Woolley 1871-1904. He had no children
from two marriages.
Henry William was a partner in Tugwell, Mackenzie and Clutterbuck, bankers in
the High Street, Bath; subsequently Tugwell & Co., 1850; Tugwell, Brymer Clutterbuck
& Co., 1833; Prescott, Dimsdale Cave, Tugwell & Co. Ltd, 1899.
Tragically, on 24thJanuary 1839, at Bath, Christiana Tugwell died accidentally
of prussic acid poisoning together with the 8 year old twins, Thomas and Charles,
leaving George Clutterbuck Tugwell with two young children.
On 4th May he married Virginia Arnold, daughter of Major General George Mackie
C.B. at Exeter. She was born in Nova Scotia, Canada and died in Salcombe, Devon.
After the death of George she re-married Edward Hamilton Anson of the Bengal Service.
Arthur Bryan was the only son of George and Virginia. Born at Bath he entered
Eton College in 1868 and Christchurch, Oxford in 1870, B.A. 1874; M.A. 1879. He
was a student at Lincoln's Inn. In 1871 he married Eleanor Sasy Maud and they
both died in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. Elizabeth Dorothy Maud Tugwell was their only
daughter, who died, a spinster.