Jacques Bichsel, Lord of Hackford, Norfolk, born 11 July 1941, father Ernest Bichsel, (Scottish whisky importer), mother Irène Montandon (Courrier du Val-de-Travers), who married during WWII.
Jacques married 1967 Aniela Heer, daughter of Jean Heer.
Child : Anthony, MA, Cambridge University, England, banking and finance law.
Godchildren : Alexandre de Senger-Bichsel, runs a business operating a network of digital screen.
Sebastien Rytz, manager of medico-social establishment, private pilote.
Jacques Bichsel, education : mathematics, École Polytechnique, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, Federal Diploma in Real Estate and LL.D of Laws.
Wrote a novel on thermonuclear fusion which was expected to replace nuclear fission in the 21th century, published in 1964.
(Particules en procès).
1970 founded a fiduciary and advisory business, Geneva, specializing in Real Estate, sold in 1993, moved to Monaco until 2004, flew single engine aircraft for a dozen or so years ; collection of classic Italian cars exhibited at Geneva’s Automobile Museum.
2006 elected a knight of the Dynastic Order of the House of Savoie.
« Cavaliere nell’ordine dei Santi Maurizio e Lazzaro. »
1986, the late Earl of Kimberley, Baron Wodehouse, conveyed the Lordship of Hackford by fine to Mr Bichsel.
Jacques Bichsel, Lord of Hackford, Norfolk, born 11 July 1941, father Ernest Bichsel, (Scottish whisky importer), mother Irène Montandon (Courrier du Val-de-Travers), who married during WWII.
Jacques married 1967 Aniela Heer, daughter of Jean Heer.
Child : Anthony, MA, Cambridge University, England, banking and finance law.
Godchildren : Alexandre de Senger-Bichsel, runs a business operating a network of digital screen.
Sebastien Rytz, manager of medico-social establishment, private pilote.
Jacques Bichsel, education : mathematics, École Polytechnique, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, Federal Diploma in Real Estate and LL.D of Laws.
Wrote a novel on thermonuclear fusion which was expected to replace nuclear fission in the 21th century, published in 1964.
(Particules en procès).
1970 founded a fiduciary and advisory business, Geneva, specializing in Real Estate, sold in 1993, moved to Monaco until 2004, flew single engine aircraft for a dozen or so years ; collection of classic Italian cars exhibited at Geneva’s Automobile Museum.
2006 elected a knight of the Dynastic Order of the House of Savoie.
« Cavaliere nell’ordine dei Santi Maurizio e Lazzaro. »
1986, the late Earl of Kimberley, Baron Wodehouse, conveyed the Lordship of Hackford by fine to Mr Bichsel.
Hackford, Norfolk, also known as Hakeford, or Hackford by Hingham. It was owned by Ketel in Edward the ConfessorŌs time (1042-66).
By the time of the Domesday Survey, Tovil was holding the Manor when it was three furlongs long and two broad. It was taxed at 7d. It was soon afterwards held by the Barons of Horsford Castle.
In 1205, Simon Fritz-Walter and Sarah, his wife, released the third part of the village, which Sarah then held in dower of her first husband, Thomas de Burgh, in exchange for his granting them lands in Somerton. It belonged to John de Hackford in about 1340.
Sir Robert Berney was executor of Ralph de VernonÕs will and sold the Lordship in about 1401 to Thomas de Bockying who held it of the Manor of Horsford as the heirs, but he left only a daughter, Margaret, who married John Fox of Castle Acre, who died seized of the Lordship in 1484. He gave the Manor to his wife for her life and it was sold to Sir John Windham at her death.
Edmund Windham sold the Lordship in 1572 to Richard Johnson and the Manor changed hands on numerous occasions at the end of the 16th and beginning of the 17th centuries until it passed into the possession of Sir Henry Hobart, Attorney-General. It remained in the Hands of the Hobarts until 1663 when it was sold to Robert Long of Spixworth. Due to some now unknown family disagreement, Robert disinherited his eldest son, Francis.
Francis died leaving a son who in 1739 was a minor and the estate was sold by his trustees to Lord Wodehouse. The late Earl of Kimberley, Baron Wodehouse, conveyed the Lordship by fine to Mr Bichsel in 1986.
Address : c/o The Manorial Society of Great Britain.
