Sir Alvary and Lorna Priscilla returned to Lotherton Hall in 1953 with distinguished reputations (1).
With magnanimity, Sir Alvary recognised the military portrait of his father and the portrait of himself 'the young master’ belonged to the ancestral portraits of the Gascoigne Dynasty.
Gifting Lotherton Hall to the City of Leeds on 25th anniversary of the loss of his son in 1941 serving as a Tank Commander in the Coldstream Guards in Normandy, Captain Douglas Wilder Trench – Gascoigne.

Portrait of Colonel F.R.T Trench-Gascoigne
by Herman Gustave Herkomer

Commissioned in 1903, the portrait is a homage to the military career during the Victorian era. In military uniform, wearing the Companion of the Distinguished Service Order presented by King Edward V11.

Double Portrait of 'Laura Gwendolen and Alvary’
by Edward Hughes (1832 – 1908)

Dated 1898, the affectionate family portrayal belongs to the Edwardian Gilded Age of optimism at the modernised Country House, Lotherton Hall.

Portrait of Cynthia Trench – Gascoigne
by Edward Hughes (1832 – 1908)

Dated 1904, Cynthia is seated in a similar bower and like the portrait of Alvary, the Gascoigne Scottish Landscape is viewed over her shoulder.
The portrait belongs to the Edwardian Gilded Age of optimism at Craignish Castle.

Portrait of Sylvia Gascoigne (nee Wilder 1887 – 1938)
by Flora Lion (1878- 1958)

Commissioned in the 1920’s, the portrait belongs to the 'inter-war heyday of the life of the Gascoignes’ at Lotherton Hall and Craignish Castle.
Sylvia and Alvary married in 1916 and divorced in 1935. Douglas was born in 1917 and Yvonne in 1919 at Lotherton Hall and the family holidayed at the Scottish seat.
The USA military career of Sylvia’s father must have been of interest to Colonel Frederick R.T. Trench-Gascoigne. Brigardier General Wilbur Elliot Wilder negiogated the surrender of Geronimo in the Apache Wars and received the Congressional Medal.