Five miles outside Bridlington lies Burton Agnes Hall, a beautiful Elizabethan house which is famous for its 17th century carvings and the fine collection of modern paintings, bronzes, furniture and porcelain bought by the previous owner, Sir Marcus Wickham-Boynton, who died in 1989. With no son and heir to take over on his death, responsibility of the farms and estate fell onto the young shoulders of Simon Cunliffe-Lister, who was then just 12 years old. So his mother Susan Cunliffe-Lister, daughter of Viscount William Whitelaw, took over the running of the estate