 John Scandrett Harford was a partner in the same bank and his son (also called John Scandrett Harford) married Richard Hart-Davies' daughter Louisa.John Scandrett Harford purchased the Peterwell estate from his father-in-law jointly with his younger brother in 1820.It was John Scandrett Harford's nephew John Battersby Harford who commissioned the architect Thomas Talbot Bury of London to build the Italian style villa that currently stands in Falcondale.