| The next experiment was to entrust the leadership to a triumvirate of Granby, Disraeli and the elderly John Charles Herries. |
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| The Herries series begins in the 18th century and follows a Lakeland family through the generations up to modern times. |
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| In 2013 a new stage version of Rogue Herries was presented by the Theatre by the Lake company in Walpole's adopted home of Keswick. |
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| Ripcord, trained by Lady Herries and the mount of Racing Post editorial director Brough Scott, finished seventh. |
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| He completed a fifth novel in the Herries series and began work on a sixth. |
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| Sir Hugh Walpole, author of the Lake District novel Rogue Herries, was a visitor in the 1920s and 30s and used the house as the scene, set in 1854, of the murder by Uhland. |
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| His range included disturbing studies of the macabre, children's stories and historical fiction, most notably his Herries Chronicle series, set in the Lake District. |
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| With the Herries stories Walpole restored the popularity of the historical novel, a form for which Scott was famous but which had been out of fashion for decades. |
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