Description:Portrait of a boy wearing a dark green jacket and a white tie collar shirt. Sky and trees are depicted in the background to the left. A parrot is sitting on his left hand. Portrait of Thomas Whitby of Haywood Abbey, Great Haywood. Gilt picture frame.
Artist: Michael Dahl I (1656/1659-1743).
Thomas Whitby (1531-1621) aquired Shugborough. His son John Whitby sold Shugborough to the Anson family in 1624 and purchased Haywood Abbey, Great Haywood. His great grandson, John Whitby J.P. purchased Oakedge, Colwich around 1750. His son Rev. Thomas Whitby sold Oakedge to Hon. Thomas Clifford and purchased Creswell Hall prior to his death in 1828.