 Sir John Young died in 1589, and the Red Lodge was completed in 1590 by his widow Dame Joan.From an ancient Somerset and Devon family, Dame Joan was a sister and co-heiress of Nicholas Wadham, co-founder with his wife Dorothy Wadham of Wadham College, Oxford.She was married firstly to Sir Giles Strangways (1528-1562) of Melbury Sampford and then to John Young (16th-century MP), who was knighted by Queen Elizabeth I when she stayed with the Youngs at The Great House on her visit to Bristol in 1574, and the arms of Young impaling Wadham are carved above the porch entrance to the Great Oak Room at the Red Lodge.