The Library, Marske Hall, Swaledale

Slide 11: Marske owes its splendid library of books to Mr John Hutton, who died in 1863, aged 84. A view of the room in which the books are stored is now shown. Over the mantle-piece hangs a portrait of Matthew Hutton, who formed the destinies of the Huttons at Marske. By dint of his own persevering efforts, he became successively, in 1561, Professor of Divinity in Cambridge University, and in 1567, he was advanced to the Deanery of York, and in 1589, he was installed Bishop of Durham, until1594, he was elevated to the Archbishopric of York.