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    Sir Peter Hesketh-Fleetwood, 1st Baronet, (9 May 1801 – 12 April 1866) was an English landowner, developer and Member of Parliament who founded the town...
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    939 at the 2011 census. Fleetwood acquired its modern character in the 1830s, when the principal landowner Peter Hesketh-Fleetwood, High Sheriff and MP,...
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    for Peter Hesketh-Fleetwood, of Rossall Hall, a politician and landowner. He was a descendant of the youngest son of William Fleetwood of Hesketh through...
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    some furniture designed by Decimus. Another early member was Sir Peter Hesketh-Fleetwood, a close friend of the Burtons. 51 members of the club have won...
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  • Lieutenant-Colonel Roger Fleetwood Hesketh OBE TD DL JP (28 July 1902 – 14 November 1987), born Roger Bibby-Hesketh, was a Conservative Party politician...
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    employed by Peter Hesketh-Fleetwood in 1836 to lay out the new planned town of Fleetwood. It is protected as a Grade II listed building. Fleetwood is a 19th-century...
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    as visitor. As a result of Peter Hesketh-Fleetwood's financial problems from over-investing in the development of Fleetwood, he agreed to lease his ancestral...
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    Class Radicalism (Breviary Stuff Publications, 2012) p. 212. Bradshaw, Peter (1 September 2018). "Peterloo review – force, grit and brilliance". TheGuardian...
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    commissioned three years previously by Sir Peter Hesketh Fleetwood as the architect of the new town of Fleetwood. Construction was completed in 1840. Unusually...
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    Fleetwood, a distant relative of Peter Hesketh-Fleetwood, the founder of Fleetwood. A slate plaque bears the wording "Erected 1842 by H.P. Fleetwood Esq"...
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