Noblesse oblige

‘The munificence of the Earl of Scarbrough has been extended, as usual, at this season of the year, to the poor in the neighbourhood of the parishes of Maltby, Stainton and Tickhill, by a plentiful distribution of bread and beef, and a large quantity of bed rugs, besides the completely clothing upwards of fifty poor children.’ (‘Leeds Intelligencer’, Monday, 15 January 1821, page 3.)

‘Earl Fitzwilliam on St Thomas’s day distributed 325 stone of beef and nearly £70 in sixpences each to the poor people in the immediate neighbourhood of Wentworth House. The Earl of Scarbrough has, in addition to the clothing of 70 poor children, distributed 30 cloaks to as many old women, 50 pair of blankets, upward of 1,000 loaves of bread and a large quantity of meat, to the poor families in Tickhill, Stainton, Maltby and Stone. George Saville Foljambe Esq. has, although absent from Osberton, shown that he does not forget the wants of those who usually partake of his Christmas bounty, and has just now gladdened the hearts of numerous poor families in the parish of Worksop and various other parishes where his estates are situated, by the distribution of 150 pairs of blankets, 50/- worth of coals and 2 fat beasts.’ (‘Globe’, Monday, 2 January 1832, page 4.)

 ‘On Friday last the Earl of Scarbrough, with his accustomed liberality, gave his workmen, tradesmen and labourers an excellent dinner at Rufford Abbey to celebrate Her Majesty’s nuptuals. About 200 sat down to dinner which was followed with “English brown ale”….His lordship also gave a dinner of roast beef and plum pudding to upwards of 80 labourers and other persons employed at Sandbeck and to each of the widows of Tickhill, Maltby and Stainton 1/6 each, to the labourers’ wives 1/- and the children were presented with buns.’ (‘Nottingham Review and General Advertiser for the Midland Counties’, Friday, 28 February 1840, page 4.)