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Sir Tatton Sykes, 5th Baronet (13 March 1826 – 4 May 1913) was an English landowner, racehorse breeder, church-builder and eccentric.
He was the elder son of Sir Tatton Sykes, 4th Baronet and Mary Ann Foulis, and succeeded to the Sykes baronetcy on his father's death in 1863. His brother was the Conservative MP Christopher Sykes. He lived at Sledmere, near York and served as Deputy Lieutenant of the East Riding of Yorkshire, and later High Sheriff of Yorkshire for 1869–70.
On 3 August 1874, at the age of 48, he married novelist Christina Anne Jessica Cavendish-Bentinck (d.1912), daughter of George Augustus Frederick Cavendish-Bentinck and Prudentia Penelope Leslie. His wife was 30 years younger than him, and was later convicted of issuing cheques in her husband's name. They had one son, Sir Tatton 'Mark' Sykes (1879-1919).
Sykes died in May 1913 at age 87, and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son. He owned 34,000 acres (14,000 ha) of land in the East Riding of Yorkshire.
Churches
Between 1856 and 1913, 18 rural churches were built, rebuilt or restored in East and North Yorkshire, chiefly in the Wolds, by Sykes, and his father, the fourth baronet.
Sykes worked with architects C. Hodgson Fowler, G.E.Street and Temple Moore. The churches included St Michael and All Angels, Garton on the Wolds, St Edith at Bishop Wilton and St Andrew’s at Weaverthorpe. Sykes has been described as "England’s greatest 19th century church builder".
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