William Sykes died just a few months later in August 1697. However he did not lead them into battle, as his particular talents were needed by the Intelligence department of the War Office working for Lord Kitchener, the Secretary of State for War. The Sykes Baronetcy, of Cheadle in the County of Chester, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 10 July 1918 for Alan Sykes, Member of Parliament for Knutsford. Another son, Christopher Sykes (19071986), was a distinguished author and official biographer of Evelyn Waugh. This meant the Alexandretta Plan to roll up Syria, in order to reshape the Middle East on nationalist lines. Sykes Family of Sledmere - Family History - LiquiSearch ", Fitzgerald, Edward Peter. 8 Mar 1946; Christopher Simon Andrew Sykes + 5 b. As a young man he was made articled clerk to a London law firm, but quickly developed an interest in racing rather than the law. He had a living at Roos and was resident there when his brother died. Here the family built up its wealth in the cloth trade (Foster, Pedigrees; Legard, The Legards, p. 191; Syme, `Sledmere Hall', p.41; Ward, East Yorkshire landed estates, p.13). He disliked the sight of women and children lingering out the front of houses and made the tenants bolt up their front doors and only use back entrances. [36] His remains were of interest because he had been buried in a lead-lined coffin, and this was thought likely to have preserved Spanish flu viral particles intact. His last journey to Palestine had raised many doubts, which were not set at rest by a visit to Rome. He married Deborah Oates, daughter of the mayor of Pontefract where both he and his wife were later buried. (5th Baronet ) family, on Ancestry. Sledmere House "lay like a ducal demesne among the Wolds, approached by long straight roads and sheltered by belts of woodland, surrounded by large prosperous farmsornamented with the heraldic triton of the Sykes familythe mighty four-square residence and the exquisite parish church. The comments below have not been moderated. The second Baronet was Member of Parliament for Beverley. The Yorkshire Wolds are often considered the least attractive of our great countys wide-open spaces. Richard Sykes married Mary Kirkby (1681-1714) whose brother Mark Kirkby, a wealthy Hull merchant, acquired the whole of the large township of Sledmere in twelve separate purchases over some 25 years from 1721. Behind the scenes: Hugh Bonneville (right) during the filming of Downton Abbey. Sein Name ist vor allem mit dem Sykes-Picot-Abkommen verbunden. [26] Across Whitehall, Sykes became known as "the Mad Mullah", even so he was summoned to No.