Parham Park, near Pulborough was the family seat of the Bisshopp baronets for over 300 years. Lieutenant-Colonel Cecil Bisshopp (1783-1813), eldest son of Sir Cecil Bisshopp (1753-1828) the 8th Baronet was an army officer who was posted to Upper Canada, then a British colony, to defend the borders against American invasion during the War of 1812. He distinguished himself in the Battle of Frenchman’s Creek in November 1812 and was involved in a number of other notable military engagements over the following months, but died in July 1813 as a result of injuries sustained in a successful British military raid on the American camp at Black Rock, near Buffalo in New York state.