“…Sir John Mordaunt, for example, assisted his sister-in-law Elizabeth Prowse in her negotiations with her tenants over tithe payments at Wicken in 1796, although in the end he predeceased her and his son inherited. 110 Nephews too sometimes played an active role in helping their aunts to run their estates, an arrangement which both provided practical assistance to elderly property owners and helped to prepare young men for the responsibilities of landownership and familiarise them with the estates they would one day own. A good example of the collaborative management of an estate by an aunt and nephew comes from Wrest Park in the early nineteenth century.…”