Manor House Hotel Manor House Hotel The Manor House is a 14th-century country house hotel in Castle Combe, Wiltshire in the south of England. The Manor House is noteworthy for several reasons throughout history. First of all, its land is the site of an old Norman castle settlement which has hosted a number of Lords throughout its history, the most famous of which was Sir John Oldcastle, the figure Shakespeare based his character of Sir John Falstaff upon in his play Henry IV in the late 16th century. It was also the home of English geologist and political economist George Poulett Scrope throughout
Sir John Pakington, 4th Baronet Sir John Pakington, 4th Baronet Sir John Pakington, 4th Baronet (1671–1727) of Westwood, near Droitwich, Worcestershire was a British politician. He was the only son of Sir John Pakington, 3rd Baronet and educated at St John’s College, Oxford. He succeeded his father to the baronetcy and Westwood House in 1688. He represented Aylesbury and Worcestershire in Parliament, where he was known for his Tory and High Church views. In the latter part of the eighteenth century he was said to be the model for Roger de Coverley, the mildly satirical figure of the Tory gentry guyed in "The Spectator", though