Richard Slater Milnes (1759-1804), of Fryston Hall, Co.York, M.P., City of York, married 30 May 1781, Rachael (d.1835), daughter and (at the death of her sister Marianne, the wife of James Milnes) sole heir of Hans Busk, of Bull House, by Martha his wife, daughter and heir of Richard Rodes, of Great Houghton, co. York, and Martha his wife, sister and heir of Aymer Rich of Penistone. The grandson of Mr and Mrs Richard Slater Milnes was Robert Offley Ashburton Milnes (1858-1945), 2nd Baron Houghton, Earl of Crewe, Earl of Madeley and Marquess of Crewe (see L.G. Pine, The New Extinct Peerage 1884-1971, London, 1972, p.89)

John Smart (1742/3-1811) is considered one of the greatest or even the greatest English miniaturist in his period (Schidlof, The Miniature in Europe, Graz, 1964, p.762)