The Halford Inheritance
Halford was a great grandson of Sir Richard Halford, 5th Baronet (d. 1727), through his maternal grandmother. As such, he became the heir presumptive at the death of his mother's cousin Sir Charles Halford, 7th and last Bt (1732–1780), the last of the original Halfords. However, his widow Sarah née Farnham (md 1769) remained in possession of Wistow, and remarried the Earl of Denbigh. She died only on 2 October 1814, but Halford (then Vaughan) changed his name in 1809 on the expectation of this inheritance.
Halford finally inherited Wistow Hall in 1814 with the death of Lady Denbigh (d. 2 October 1814).
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