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UNIVERSITY OF WINCHESTER
A Country House or a House in the Country?
A study of country houses in the New Forest and their residents, c.1851 to c.1923
Catherine E. M. Glover
MA in Regional and Local History and Archaeology
FACULTY OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
September 2012
This independent study has been completed as a requirement
for a higher degree of the University of Winchester.
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UNIVERSITY OF WINCHESTER
ABSTRACT
A Country House or a House in the Country?
A study of country houses in the New Forest and their residents, c.1851 to c.1923
Catherine E. M. Glover
MA in Regional and Local History and Archaeology
FACULTY OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
September 2012
This independent study has been completed as a requirement
for a higher degree of the University of Winchester.
This is a study of the country houses of the New Forest and their residents, based primarily on contemporary histories and guidebooks, sales notices, trade directories, newspapers, and census records. The aims were, firstly, to determine when and where the houses were built, compiling a gazetteer of information about their size and other characteristics; and, secondly, by examining the backgrounds of the people who built, bought, sold, or rented them, to determine to what extent the nouveaux riches, whose fortunes were based on industry, trade, commerce or the professions were joining the traditional land-‐owning classes in their enjoyment of a country lifestyle. Was the increase in their numbers part of a process of suburbanisation? Was the New Forest an extension of the ‘retirement belt’ of the South Coast? To what extent were these houses thought of by their residents as traditional ‘country houses’ or were they rather the ‘houses in the country’ of modern times? Methodologically, this is a case study in using records that are widely available on the Internet or in country record offices and local studies libraries.
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Table of Contents
List of Figures 5 List of Maps 6 List of Tables 7 Acknowledgements 8 Abbreviations 9 Introduction 10 Chapter 1. Methodology 16 Chapter 2. Location and Chronology 15 Chapter 3. Sizes, Facilities, Attractions and Styles 46 Chapter 4. Conversions, Building Leases, and Letting 57 Chapter 5. Residents 68 Conclusion 80
Appendices
Appendix A. Gazetteer 87 Appendix B. Houses by Area and Date 112 Appendix C. House Sizes 114 Appendix D. House Facilities and Styles 122 Appendix E. Residents and their Property 162 Appendix F. Residents and their Backgrounds 179 Bibliography 212
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List of Figures
Figure 1.1. A page from the original ms of Georgina Bowden-‐Smith’s memoir 17 Figure 1.2. OS County Series 1:2500, showing details of Lyndhurst 19 Figure 1.3. Property record 22 Figure 1.4. Person records. 23 Figure 1.5. Property-‐person data-‐entry view. 23 Figure 1.6. Property-‐person results view. 24 Figure 2.1. Canterton estate: plan showing lots for sale, 1887. 34 Figure 2.2. The Glasshayes estate, 1895. 37 Figure 3.1. Sales notices for Malwood, 1925 and 1927. 46 Figure 3.2. Acreage attached to ‘new’ and ‘rebuilt’ houses 49 Figure 3.3. Room numbers in ‘new’ and ‘rebuilt’ houses 50 Figure 3.4. Sales notices for Boldre Grange, 1921 and 1929. 51 Figure 3.5. Sales notices for Stydd House, 1928. 53 Figure 3.6. Littlecroft. 56 Figure 4.1. Glasshayes from the lawn at the rear. 57 Figure 4.2. Ground plan of Glasshayes. 58 Figure 4.3. Malwood, showing the old lodge. 61 Figure 4.4. Sales notice for Bramble Hill Lodge, showing the east elevation. 62 Figure 4.5. West elevation of Bramble Hill Lodge. 62 Figure 4.6. Plans for improving Whitley Ridge Lodge. 63 Figure 4.7. Plan for a house at High Coxlease. 64 Figure 4.8. Plan showing Holmfield and its grounds. 66 Figure 5.1. Littlecroft, Emery Down, home of Morton Kelsall Peto. 72
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List of Maps
Map 2.1. Boundaries of the New Forest. 26 Map 2.2. New Forest walks, sites of keepers’ lodges, and ‘private lands’. 28 Map 2.3. Communications in the New Forest. 30 Map 2.4. Areas in which houses are located. 31 Map 2.5. Distribution of country houses in the northern New Forest. 32 Map 2.6. Distribution of country houses around Lyndhurst. 35 Map 2.7. Distribution of country houses in Lyndhurst village. 36 Map 2.8. Distribution of country houses in the southern New Forest. 38 Map 2.9. Distribution of country houses in Brockenhurst village. 39 Map 2.10. Distribution of country houses in the Boldre area. 40 Map 2.11. Distribution of country houses in the western New Forest. 42 Map 2.12. Distribution of country houses in the south-‐eastern New Forest. 43 Map 2.13. Distribution of country houses in Beaulieu. 44
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List of Tables
Table 2.1. Land in the New Forest. 26 Table A.1. Houses in alphabetical order with brief histories 87 Table C.1. Houses in alphabetical order with acreage, number of rooms, etc 115 Table C.2. Sizes of ‘new’ and ‘rebuilt’ houses in order of building date 120 Table C.3. Number of bedrooms by house size 121 Table C.4. Number of bathrooms by house size 121 Table D.1. Houses in alphabetical order with facilities, architecture and pictures 123 Table D.2. Facilities offered 160 Table E.1. Residents and property 162 Table F.1. Residents and their backgrounds 180 Table F.2. Total residents in each background category 207 Table F.3. Number of residents in each category with at least 20 rooms or at least four bathrooms 208 Table F.4. Number of residents in each category with billiards rooms, tennis lawns or courts, or glasshouses 209 Table F.5. Wealth at death 210
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Acknowledgements
I am grateful to Richard Reeves at the Christopher Tower New Forest Reference
Library whose enthusiasm for and knowledge of New Forest history seem to
have no limits, to the staff at the Hampshire Record Office, and to my
supervisors, initially Dr Mark Allen and latterly Professor Michael Hicks, for their
advice and support. I must also thank Anthony Pasmore, who led me to Mrs
Georgina Bowden-‐Smith’s memoirs and the Bennet annuary and diary, the
receptionists at Retail Manager Solutions Ltd, who let me photograph Castle
Malwood house, and Julie P. Moore whose talk on her work on Hertfordshire was
so stimulating. Finally, my gratitude goes to Richard Hoyle for his inspiration and
encouragement, and especially his patience on those long walks in the New
Forest, hoping not to get arrested while peering with me over hedges in an
attempt to photograph – or even see – the surviving houses.
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Abbreviations
DNB Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan. 2008) [www.oxforddnb.com]
DS Deputy Surveyor of the New Forest. F 10 The National Archives series entitled ‘Forestry Commission
and predecessors: Director of Forestry for England, Correspondence and Papers, New Forest’
HCC Hampshire County Council
Proc. HFCAS Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological Society HRO Hampshire Record Office
MFH Master of Foxhounds
NFRL Christopher Tower New Forest Reference Library OW Office of Woods
OS Ordnance Survey VCH Victoria County History
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Introduction
Many gentlemen have their houses in its interior parts; and their tenants are in possession of well cultivated farms. For tho the soil of New-‐forest is, in general, poor; yet there are some parts of it, which very happily admit culture.
William Gilpin, 17911 The landscape of the New Forest today comprises woodlands and open heath,
with villages often bustling with activity, all now more or less suburbanised. The
eyes and cameras of visitors are drawn towards ponies grazing on the unfenced
common and pretty cottages. Less often associated with this landscape are its
country houses. From the late eighteenth century, and the publication of William
Gilpin’s Remarks on forest scenery in 1791, interest in the area as an attractive
place to visit and to live in grew.2 If one walks in the Forest today, especially near
the villages of Lyndhurst, Brockenhurst, and Burley, but also in more remote
locations, one is aware of the existence of many substantial pre-‐First World War
houses, set beyond lawns and concealed by hedges, with lodges, gates, and
carriage drives. This aspect of the New Forest has rarely, if ever, been remarked
upon. This dissertation is the first attempt to describe what we should
understand as a process of rural suburbanisation. From only a handful of country
seats in 1800, the study finds that the number of substantial houses in the area
had increased by 1920 to well over 100. Although most of them survive, many as
hotels, schools and nursing homes, or divided into flats, these houses have never
been studied as a group, nor their builders and residents identified.
The geographical scope of the study is the nineteenth-‐century
‘perambulation’ of the Forest, the area within which common rights could still be
exercised. The chronological scope roughly coincides with the period between 1 W. Gilpin, Remarks on forest scenery… illustrated by the scenes of New Forest in Hampshire, ed., S. Lyall (3 vols, 1791, repr. 1973) III, 38. 2 Gilpin, Remarks, III, 38.
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the Deer Removal Act, 1851, and the transfer of Forest administration from the
Office of Woods to the Forestry Commission, following the Forestry (Transfer of
Woods) Act, 1923. But this study is about neither common stock keeping nor
forestry, important though both those activities were. It is about the origins of
the Forest in its ‘non-‐productive’ phase, as it started to become a rural escape
from urban life.
The houses of the New Forest are not on the scale of the stately homes of
dukes and earls although several demonstrate aspirations towards that style of
living. Most of the houses are more typical of the seats of the landed gentry:
many look as they have strayed from a prosperous late nineteenth-‐century
suburb and are really bourgeois homes.
This leads to a problem of definition: how big or small does a house need
to be before we can consider it to be a ‘country house’? Similar studies in other
areas have used more than seven bedrooms as minimum for a country house,
and this was initially used as the entry criterion. 3 However, the number of
bedrooms was known for only 87 houses, leaving a large number of candidate
houses for which other inclusion criteria had to be found. One was the total
number of rooms recorded in the 1911 census. 4 Allowing for two reception
rooms and a kitchen, ten rooms seemed to be an absolute minimum.
Disappointingly, this data was not available for all houses (particularly the larger
ones), the reasons for which are discussed in Chapter 2. There were still some
houses that had to be included on the basis of their ‘footprint’ on early large-‐
scale Ordnance Survey maps. If this seemed at least as large as those of houses
included on the basis of room count, the house was included. This gave a total of
129 houses.5
The dissertation was also seen as an exploration of the wealth of material
made available through the digitisation programmes of the last decade. The
3 G. Sheeran, Brass Castles: West Yorkshire new rich and their houses, 1800-‐1914 (1993); J. Vale, ‘The country houses of Southampton’, Proc. HFCAS 39 (1983) discusses the difficulty of deciding which houses to include, and lists various criteria, but points out that all of them varied over time, and that data that can be measured against the criteria is not uniformly available, 171. 4 Using the find my past Web site at www.findmypast.co.uk. 5 These criteria seem no less shaky than the elaborate system of ‘units … of a hundred square feet of floor-‐space of living quarters’, adopted by the Stones (L. Stone and J. C. F. Stone, An open elite? England 1540-‐1880 (1984), 440.
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materials made available and searchable include not only the census but some
newspapers, periodical literature, and maps. In a whole variety of ways, the
searchable nature of these sources has yielded a rich harvest of information
about both the houses and their inhabitants that could not have been realised in
a pre-‐digital age. Other sources in traditional formats used in the study include
contemporary histories and guidebooks, sales notices and trade directories.
Comparative studies could easily be conducted in other areas using equivalent
materials. In addition, some records in the F 10 series of The National Archives
were used.6 Chapter 1 discusses the methodology and sources in more detail.
The first aim was to define the sample of houses and determine when and
where the houses were built. How many old houses were enlarged or otherwise
altered? How did the land for new built properties become available? What was
the peak period for building new houses? These questions are discussed in
Chapter 2, with details and data being presented in appendices A and B.
Questions about the houses themselves are discussed in Chapter 3 and
presented in Appendices C and D. What acreages of land were attached to the
properties? Did the size of houses and the number of rooms or the facilities
offered, change over time? What facilities and attractions were advertised when
the properties were for sale or to let? Chapter 4 discusses the conversion of
cottages, farms and lodges into country houses – particularly using building
leases – and the letting market.
The second, and historiographically more important, aim was to examine
the backgrounds of the people who built, bought, sold, or rented the houses, to
determine to what extent the nouveaux riches, whose fortunes were based on
industry, trade, commerce or the professions were joining the traditional land-‐
owning classes in their enjoyment of a country lifestyle. Were the houses used as
6 Lack of time prevented the consultation of two ‘snapshot’ sources: the Return of owners of land, 1873 (the so-‐called ‘new Domesday’) and the Inland Revenue valuation of 1909 (although many of the key series of these records for Hampshire were destroyed in the Second World War). Neither was Country Life Illustrated consulted systematically, although use was made of many sales notices that appear in it. The death duty indexes and registers are available, up to 1903, in TNA IR 27 and IR 26 respectively, though many of the registers for the 1890s were destroyed by fire, but neither they nor the National Probate Calendar 1858-‐1966 could be consulted, although some probate information was gathered from other sources. All these records could have added further information about the residents of the houses. Building plans are available for almost none of the houses: those that must have been submitted to New Forest Rural District Council after 1888 do not appear to have survived.
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holiday homes or were they permanently occupied? Was the development of
country houses part of a process of suburbanisation, with people travelling to
business in Southampton? Did the wealthy elite bring up families here? Or was
the New Forest an extension of the ‘retirement belt’ that was developing on the
South Coast, the preserve of the retired admirals and majors of conventional
wisdom? Were businessmen and industrialists attracted by the opportunities for
field sports? The information collected about the residents is discussed in
Chapter 5 and presented in Appendices E and F.
And finally we ask to what extent were these houses thought of by their
residents as traditional ‘country houses’ or were they rather the ‘houses in the
country’ of modern times?
The answers to these questions, it is hoped, will contribute to the debate
about gentrification and Britain’s economic decline. Launched in 1981 by Martin
Wiener’s influential book, English culture and the decline of the industrial spirit,
this debate was continued by F. M. L. Thompson and W. D. Rubinstein among
others.7 The debate is about the relationship in Britain between commerce and
land. Wiener maintained that it was the aspiration of successful entrepreneurs to
settle down on country estates and adopt the lifestyle of the gentleman.
Industrial capitalists, Weiner insists, saw success in terms of their acquisition of
rural estates and lifestyles, including hunting and shooting. This was particularly
the case in the second generation when the university-‐educated sons of
industrial capitalists dropped out of management of the parental company and
embraced rural lifestyles and preoccupations. 8 For Wiener, this sapped the
entrepreneurial spirit and contributed to Britain’s economic decline. Wiener
maintains that the culture of Industrial Britain remained essentially pastoral: he
draws our attention to the many figures in nineteenth-‐century British high
culture, including Hardy and Kipling, who were anti-‐progress, anti-‐urbanisation,
and anti-‐industrialisation.9
7 M. J. Wiener, English culture and the decline of the industrial spirit, 1850–1980 (1981); F. M. L. Thompson, Gentrification and the enterprise culture (2003); W. D. Rubinstein, Capitalism, culture and decline in Britain, 1750–1990 (1993). 8 Wiener, English culture, 137. 9 Ibid, 51-‐64.
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Wiener exploited a whole range of literature to support his case.
Attempts to prove or disprove his argument statistically by Thompson and
Rubenstein have largely floundered. The problem with the data used by both
authorities is that they were looking only at millionaires and their acquisition of
large landed estates.10 Less wealthy people were also clearly spending capital on
building, buying and renting houses. The New Forest is not an area of large
landed estates: for this reason there was little to attract the industrialist seeking
to buying hundreds of acres but it offered opportunities for people with more
limited means and the same rural aspirations, especially if they wanted to have
reasonable access to the Metropolis. These were people who did not buy land on
any scale, but who built, rented or purchased houses that were themselves
substantial.11
This dissertation approaches Wiener’s contentions from a different
direction: instead of concentrating on the extremely rich, it looks at all the larger
houses in one locality and aims to discover the background of the people of their
builders or residents, in order to establish the degree to which commercial or
professional success was rewarded by the acquisition of a rural lifestyle. Others
too have based their research on country houses. Vale looked at Southampton’s
country houses from 1700 to the present, finding that the last one was built in
1854: did the wealthy of Southampton then turn their attention to the
neighbouring New Forest area? Stone and Stone studied the infiltration of landed
society by businessmen over three centuries (1540-‐1880), studying country
houses in three specific areas and concluding that the continuous upward
mobility of English society at this level is largely mythical and that the basis of
social stability was the relative homogeneity of culture among landed and
commercial elites. Sheeran studied a sample of late nineteenth-‐century houses,
based on the area the owners came from (West Yorkshire), not where they
moved to, and again he was mostly interested in those of people of ‘superior
wealth’ to ‘millionaire’ status (i.e. those leaving estates worth £100,000-‐
£1,000,000). He concluded that what most businessmen wanted was ‘a good
10 Thompson, Gentrification, 162-‐94. 11 This was recognized at the time: see R. C. De Crespigny, and H. Hutchinson, The New Forest : its traditions, inhabitants and customs (1899), 18.
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house and garden, a country place for relaxation’ and that ‘few thought it
desirable to emulate the nobility and gentry’. Although none of Sheeran’s West
Yorkshire industrialists chose the New Forest, its lack of large landed estates
should not therefore have been an impediment to others of the same mindset.
Conversely, Rothery focused on the other side of the equation, the society of the
smaller landowning gentry that was ‘reconfigured’ by merger with the non-‐
landed professional and commercial middle classes. Moore, too, has looked at
newcomers moving into a rural area from the view point of those already there:
her starting point was the impact of the agricultural depression on Hertfordshire,
but she found that while farmers may have suffered financially, the county was
revitalised by the new wealthy from nearby London who bought and rented its
country houses, as well as professional families who started a process of
suburbanisation in its garden cities. Was the experience of the south-‐west corner
of Hampshire, relatively far from the capital, similar to that of Hertfordshire?12
12 Vale, ‘Country houses’, 171; Stone and Stone, Open elite?, 423-‐4; Sheeran, Brass Castles (1993), 8, 115; M. Rothery, ‘Transformations and adaptations: the English landed gentry, 1870-‐1939’ (unpubl. Ph.D. thesis, 2004); J. P. Moore, ‘The impact of agricultural depression and landownership change on the County of Hertfordshire, c.1870-‐1914’ (unpubl. Ph.D. thesis, 2010).
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Chapter 1. Methodology
The methodology adopted was first to find all the large country houses in the
period and area of study.1 This was not a straightforward process as it involved
finding references to candidate houses and then determining exactly where they
were, when they were built and in some cases demolished, and whether they
were large enough to qualify. After – or sometimes in parallel with – listing and
locating the houses, it was necessary to discover the names of the occupants and
their backgrounds. These phases are described in this chapter.
1. Listing the houses Walking in the countryside as a method of identifying houses is pleasurable but
not reliable. In the New Forest, a fenced-‐off area densely planted within may
indicate the presence of a house, but it is often hard to tell the size of the house
or even its name. Some have been demolished. Nevertheless, some are still
visible from roads and footpaths, and this provided a starting point. Further
houses were discovered using trade directories, maps, census records, sales
notices, guidebooks and other literature both contemporary and later. These
sources are now discussed in more detail.
Trade directories are a useful way of finding the houses and
simultaneously discovering the names of the occupants. The Hampshire Record
Office (HRO) has a good collection of directories, for 1832, 1859 and thereafter at
least one for each decade. The last one consulted for the study was Kelly’s, 1923.2
Besides listing, for each parish, the ‘private residents’ and, in most cases, the
names of their houses, these volumes also list the ‘principal landowners’ and the
‘principal seats’ and their owners. From this it is possible to surmise the status, if
not the size, of the house.
1 The delimitation of the area is discussed in chapter 3. 2 The directories are listed in the bibliography.
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Other primary sources that were consulted in the search for houses
include Jacob’s Hampshire: at the opening of the twentieth century, published in
1905, Volume IV of VCH Hampshire, published in 1911, and Campion’s Recent
history of Hampshire, Wiltshire, and Dorset, published in 1922. 3 More limited in
geographical scope, but nonetheless valuable was Georgina Bowden-‐Smith’s
memoir, ‘Of what I remember of Lyndhurst, 1850-‐1906’ (Figure 1.1).4 For
background information about the New Forest and the keepers’ lodges, the
autobiography of the Deputy Surveyor, Gerald Lascelles, was useful.5
Figure 1.1. A page from the original ms of Georgina Bowden’s Smith’s ‘Of what I remember of
Lyndhurst, 1850-‐1906’, showing a watercolour of Brockenhurst Lodge. Source: NFRL.
One of the most fruitful secondary sources was Coles’s Messuages and
mansions around Lymington and the New Forest (1998). Although self-‐published,
this is a useful compilation of information gleaned from estate agents particulars
3 W. H. Jacob, Hampshire: at the opening of the twentieth century, ed. W. T. Pike (1905); W. Page (ed.), The Victoria History of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, IV (London, 1911), hereafter referred to as VCH; P. Campion, The Wessex Series: A recent history of Hampshire, Wiltshire, and Dorset (Poole, 1922). 4 Christopher Tower New Forest Reference Library (hereafter referred to as NFRL) N.750 LYN SC, Georgina Bowden-‐Smith, ‘Of what I remember of Lyndhurst, 1850-‐1906’ (typescript of original ms), 1906. 5 G. Lascelles, Thirty-‐five years in the New Forest (1915).
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and in many cases provided at least a starting point. It cannot be denied that the
Web too is a useful point of departure for research of this type, provided that
references can be verified: Walmsley’s New Forest Explorers’ site provided
several leads. Works covering smaller areas were consulted, including: Sturgess’s
Bramshaw within living memory (2000), Babey and Roberts’s Lyndhurst (2003),
Pinnell’s Country house history (for Boldre and Brockenhurst), Hardcastle’s
Records of Burley (1987), Widnell’s Beaulieu record (1973), and Holland and de
Rothschild’s Our Exbury (1982).6
2. Locating the houses Knowing that a house existed, and its name, does not necessarily mean that one
knows where it was. To determine the location of many of the houses, the
Ordnance Survey (OS) County Series 1:2500 maps published from the 1860s to
the 1910s were used.7 At this scale, most of the larger houses in the countryside
are shown, and an attempt appears to have been made to indicate the shape and
size of the buildings (Figure 1.2). Often the houses were named. In addition, the
gardens and parks were drawn in some detail and can also be used to determine
the status of the property. County Series 1:10560 maps are also available for the
area, published in slightly different years: sometimes a house is not on the large-‐
scale map but appears on the small-‐scale one a year or so later. After the second
revision of 1909–10 the next maps on which houses can be identified date from
the 1930s to 1970s, depending on the area.8 Maps from the 1960s and 1970s are
more likely than the earlier maps to name the houses, and were therefore useful
in locating some of the more elusive ones. The modern OS map can also be used
6 R. Coles, Messuages and mansions around Lymington and the New Forest: an A-‐Z miscellany of local property (1998); A. Walmsley, New Forest explorers’ guide [www. Newforestexplorers guide.co.uk]; J. Sturgess (ed.), Bramshaw within living memory (2000); G. Babey and P. Roberts, Lyndhurst: a brief history and guide (2003); B. Pinnell, Country house history: around Lymington, Brockenhurst and Milford-‐on-‐Sea (1987, repr., 2002); F. Hardcastle, Aspects of a New Forest village: records of Burley (rev. edn, 1987); H. E. R. Widnell, The Beaulieu record (1973); A. J. Holland and E. de Rothschild, Our Exbury : life in an English village in the 1920’s and early ‘30’s (1982). 7 The County Series 1:2500 first edition maps are dated between 1868 and 1885: the Beaulieu and Boldre areas, 1868; Brockenhurst, 1868 and 1869; Canterton, Minstead, Bartley, Ashurst and the southern part of Lyndhurst, 1869; Bramshaw, 1871; Burley, 1871 and 1872; the northern part of Lyndhurst, 1885. The first revision maps of the area are dated 1897, and the second revision, 1909. ‘Ancient Roam’ on Edina’s Historic Digimap site [digimap.edina.ac.uk] was used to access these maps. 8 ‘Ancient Roam’.
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for locating houses, although even on the 1:25,000 maps, they are rarely named.
Satellite photographs can also be useful in locating houses or even sites of
demolished houses.9 As a last resort, a visit on foot to the area where the house is
thought to have been, can help to locate it.
Figure 1.2. Ordnance Survey County Series 1:2500, part of tile 14072011 (1885), showing details of Rosière, Haskells, Hill House, Forest Bank, Elcombes, Gascoines, and Shrubbs Hill in Lyndhurst.
After they had been located, some houses were eliminated for one of the
following reasons: they were outside the area of study, they appear to have been
too small or were simply a farm; they were built at a later date; or they were
used as an official residence.10 To determine whether a house was outside the
9 Ordnance Survey, New Forest, 1:25,000 (Explorer Map OL22, 2007); Google Maps [maps.google.co.uk]. 10 Examples of the last are Eyeworth Lodge, which was the residence of the Superintendent of the Schultz Gunpowder Works, and Queen’s House, Lyndhurst, which was the residence of the Deputy Surveyor.
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perambulation, in some cases, the detailed map published to accompany the
1788/9 survey of the New Forest was used.11
The HRO has a useful Index to Hampshire Country Houses. This card
index includes cuttings, mostly from Country Life, advertising houses for sale.12
The sales notices in many cases give quantitative information about the houses
and their grounds. Sometimes, there is also interesting qualitative information,
for example: ‘Thousands spent on improvements, beautiful country seat (former
home of well-‐known statesman) … surrounded by grandly timbered lands’.13
Naturally, however, this source of data has its limitations: the card index is
limited to houses that were sold during the period 1913 to 1955, but it has been
supplemented with earlier sales notices found in The Times and other
periodicals.14
The size criteria for inclusion are discussed in the introduction, and one of
these was the total number of rooms recorded in the 1911 census. Respondents
were to record this regardless of house size (the 1891 and 1901 censuses only
recorded the number of rooms if there were five or fewer). The instructions
were to ‘count the kitchen as a room but do not count scullery, landing, lobby,
closet, bathroom; nor warehouse, office, shop’. This number was entered at the
bottom of the page, after the occupants’ names. For the majority of the houses,
therefore, systematic information as to house size should be available. Of the
potential problems with this data, the most important is that, on the form used
for a large household (more than 20 names), the number of rooms was recorded
on a second page, which has not been scanned or transcribed. This applies to
some 15 houses in the area of study, but all of them can be defined on the basis of 11 F 20/48, Survey book of the New Forest, 1787; T. Richardson, W. King, A. Driver and W. Driver, A Plan of His Majesty’s Forest, called the New Forest … Engraved and published … by William Faden, Geographer to the King (1789). There are several versions of the map in The National Archives: in F 17, ‘Maps, plans and drawings of the Forest of Dean, the New Forest, and other forests, 1608-‐1943’. At least two versions have been scanned and are available online (Cooper, G., ‘Historic Maps’, in The New Forest [www.newforest.hampshire.org.uk/historic_maps/ maps_intro.html, accessed 27 Jan. 2011 and ‘Richardson 1789’, in HantsMap Map Collection [www.geog.port.ac.uk/webmap/hantscat/html/h0104712.htm], accessed 10 Aug. 2010.] Following Cooper’s practice, this map is referred hereafter as the ‘Drivers’ map’. 12 Hampshire Record Office 159M88, Index to Hampshire Country Houses. The card index is said to have been compiled by a Harrods employee; it covers the whole country and has since been divided up among the county record offices. 13 HRO 159M88/972. 14 Using ‘The Times Digital Archive’ and ‘19th Century British Library Newspapers’ in GALE CENGAGE Learning [find.galegroup.com].
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other criteria as large country houses; moreover, in most cases, the number of
occupants recorded is sufficient to conclude that the number of bedrooms must
have exceeded seven. The data does not exist for houses demolished before or
built after 1911, and appears to be missing for a few houses known to have been
standing in 1911. Nevertheless, the census does provide an interesting source of
relatively uniform data for the majority of houses in the sample, and can be
pooled with the data from sale notices.
To date the houses, all the types of sources mentioned so far were used.
The appearance of the houses on the maps helps to date their building,
rebuilding or, in a few cases, demolition. Appearance in the ‘private residents’ list
in a directory similarly signals the building of a house, and change of use is
indicated by movement from the ‘commercial’ list, where the resident may have
been described as a farmer, to the ‘private residents’, or a name change from
‘farm’ or ‘cottage’ on the map. Occasionally, there is a wall plaque on the house
itself showing a date, which might possibly be the building date.
3. Identifying the residents The trade directories were the main source for names of residents. Indeed all the
sources mentioned in Section 1 provided detail about residents. Other sources
included a voluminous archive in The National Archives (TNA), F 10, which
relates to the Office of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues (OW), 1851-‐1924.
This comprises correspondence, mostly between the Deputy Surveyor for the
New Forest and his superiors in the OW itself, or between the OW and other
interested parties, including officials in the Treasury. Various books and
memoirs were also used, and these are referenced in the succeeding chapters.
Once the names were known, the details were fleshed out using the
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and Who Was Who, notices (especially
obituaries) in newspapers, census records, and deaths records. For the purposes
of this dissertation the goal was to establish the source of income for supporting
a country-‐house lifestyle, whether this was landowning, industry, commerce or
professional, and, if possible, the wealth at death. Two of the aforementioned
sources can provide the latter: DNB and newspaper obituaries.
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The database A Filemaker Pro database was used to store the information. This has the
advantage of being able to record structured data, make rough notes, and keep
images all in one place. Three tables were used: Properties, People, and
Property-‐Person. Each entry in the Properties table was used to store
information about a single house (Figure 1.3). Each entry in the People table was
used to store information about a single person (Figure 1.4). Each entry in the
Property-‐Person table was used to store information about the relationship
between a person and a house. Figure 1.5 shows the ‘data entry’ view of the
Property-‐Person record. It has drop-‐down lists containing all person names and
all house names (from the other two tables); check-‐boxes are provided for each
census and each directory, together with a few of the other sources. Figure 1.6
shows the ‘results’ view of the Property-‐Person table, which pulls in additional
data from the People table.
Figure 1.3. Property record.
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Figure 1.4. Person records.
Figure 1.5. Property-‐Person data-‐entry view.
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Figure 1.6. Property-‐Person results view.
Conclusion The consultation of sources to find houses, residents, their sources of income and
their wealth was essentially a linear process but throughout the process, new
houses were being discovered and residents and their details were being
identified, from all sources, and not necessarily in that order, and a considerable
number of serendipitous discoveries were made.
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Chapter 2. Location and Chronology
These are so spotted about, and so irregular in their forms, that we can attempt little more than a rude indication of their positions, with regard to each other, and to the Forest.
Robert Mudie, 18391
This chapter introduces the factors affecting the development of large houses in
the New Forest in the nineteenth century. The ‘positions’ of the houses ‘spotted
about’ the Forest are then discussed. The ‘forms’ of the houses – their size and
facilities – are discussed in Chapter 3.
The nineteenth-‐century New Forest The New Forest is in the south-‐west corner of Hampshire: Gilpin called it ‘a kind
of peninsula’.2 The interior of this ‘peninsula’ is delimited by the perambulation
of the Forest: the area of mostly unenclosed land where common rights can be
exercised. This is the area of study for the present dissertation (Map 2.1). People
in the market for a country house during this period were not concerned about
whether they were inside or outside the perambulation itself. Nevertheless, the
nineteenth-‐century perambulation has the merit of being a well-‐defined and
historically relevant area.
1 R. Mudie, Hampshire : its past and present condition, and future prospects, II, The northern, eastern, and southern slopes and the New Forest (3 vols, 1839, repr., n. d.), 302. 2 Gilpin, Remarks, III, 8.
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Map 2.1. Boundaries of the New Forest. After F. E. Kenchington, The commoners’ New Forest: an outline of the folk-‐history of the New Forest in the county of Southampton, its peasant pastoral
industry and its possibilities (1944), endpapers.
Landownership and land use in the New Forest In his autobiography, Gerald Lascelles, Deputy Surveyor of the New Forest from
1885 to 1915, summarised land use in the New Forest as in Table 2.1.
Table 2.1. Land in the New Forest.
Acres Open heath and pasture 39,678 Open lands with timber 5,300 Plantations enclosed 11,138 Plantations open 6,532 Freehold lands of the crown 2,089 Private property within the Forest 27,658 92,395
Source: G. Lascelles, Thirty-‐five years in the New Forest (1915), 8.
The ‘open’ Forest (including open plantations) was, and is still, subject to
common rights, which would be compromised by any kind of development. The
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crown was allowed to have only a limited area of plantations enclosed at any one
time: in order to enclose new areas, old plantations had to be thrown open, so,
again, these areas could not be developed.3 Only about 30,000 acres were
therefore available for any kind of building: on the freehold lands of the crown
and the private property within the Forest. The following sections provide a brief
introduction to these categories.
Freehold lands of the crown The freehold lands of the crown included the sites of the keepers’ lodges and
some other areas. Keepers were responsible for superintending the game in the
New Forest. Lascelles wrote that in 1851 there were 13 head keepers (or ‘master
keepers’), who ‘drew very good salaries and had good lodges’.4 It had been
envisaged that after the Deer Removal Act of that year, the keepers would no
longer be needed and that their lodges could be leased by the crown as a source
of income.5 Map 2.2 shows the New Forest area, divided into ‘walks’ each of
which had a master keeper and a lodge.6 Not all of these lodges were developed
into country houses and Lascelles laments the ‘disappearance of all these
charming old residences’, observing that it was a ‘great pity that they were not
preserved and utilised on sounder condition’.7 We shall look in Chapter 4 at how
the crown exploited some of the freehold sites for profit.
3 Nevertheless, in 1859, the Office of Woods put out to tender: ‘47 acres, comprised in 17 lots, being portions of the open WASTELANDS of the New Forest … Some of the lots are undulated, and command views of the adjacent rich forest scenery, and are thus adapted for the erection of villas and other building purposes.’, The Times, 23 Apr. 1859. It is unclear why the OW felt at liberty to sell or, more likely, lease these plots, but it is possible that houses such as Shirley Holms and Hurstly were built on some of them. 4 Lascelles, Thirty-‐five years, 59. 5 Ibid, 54. 6 Lodges had to be provided because the office of master keeper was, from the fourteenth century, typically granted as a favour rather than to men whose holdings were in the locality. R. P. Reeves, ‘Administration of larger holdings in the New Forest, Hampshire, 1130-‐c.1430’ (unpubl. MA dissertation, 2010), 30. 7 Lascelles, Thirty-‐five years, 125.
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Map 2.2. New Forest walks, sites of keepers’ lodges, and the various encroachments, freeholds, copyholds, leaseholds and purlieus that are collectively referred to as ‘private lands’. After the
annotated 1849 plan of the New Forest in F 10/180.
Private property within the Forest By the late nineteenth century, over 27,000 acres of Forest land had been
alienated one way or another: by grants of land on the part of the crown and
incroachments by other people. Many of the larger enclaves of (fenced) arable
and pasture in the Forest have medieval origins as the holdings of Foresters of
Fee, serjeanties and their dependencies, or vaccaries.8 They include Fritham,
Canterton, Minstead, Bartley Regis, Bisterne Closes, Brookley Tithing,
Battramsley, Exbury and Lepe. The incroachments tend to be smaller, piecemeal
8 Reeves, ‘Administration’, 12, 33, 45
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holdings on the Forest side of the perambulation or boundaries with larger
private lands.
Communications in the New Forest Land ownership and use were the most important factors in determining where
houses tended to be built, but road and rail communications also played their
part (Map 2.3). The Forest section of the London and Southampton Railway,
continuing on towards Dorchester, was opened in 1847, with stations at
Lyndhurst Road, Beaulieu Road, Brockenhurst, and Holmesley. 9 Of these,
however, only Brockenhurst developed much beyond a halt and started to
facilitate commuting.10
Before 1883, according to Lascelles, the road system was almost uniquely
bad. The main roads were the responsibility of the turnpike trusts, which were
now expiring, and because much of the area was extra-‐parochial, there were no
parish rates that could be used to pay for repairs. Even in 1866, when townships
were constituted in the extra-‐parochial areas under the Poor Relief Act, local
ratepayers made sure that they would not have to pay for highway maintenance
on the grounds that the crown should ‘be compelled for its own sake to maintain
the roads’. The Treasury, however, was disinclined to do so and ‘the greater part
of the New Forest was rapidly becoming impossible for wheeled traffic’.11 In
1883, to remedy this situation, the New Forest Highways Act was passed, to
ensure that the crown would put the roads in order and build new ones.
Unfortunately, due to opposition to the crown in the western New Forest, it was
not until the formation of Hampshire County Council in 1888, when that body
took over responsibility for the main roads and the crown accepted its
responsibilities as ‘a liberal landowner’, that the whole Forest road system
became completely serviceable.12
9 ‘Railways of Hampshire’, in Hantsweb: Hampshire museums [www3.hants.gov.uk/railways-‐of-‐hampshire], accessed 25 July 2011. 10 HRO H929.2PER, The Perkins family of Boldre Bridge House and their descendents, 1901-‐2001, unpubl. Typescript, in which Walter Frank Perkins’ daughter describes how ‘each morning [her] father drove with his young groom … in a dog-‐cart … to Brockenhurst station where he entrained for his office in Southampton’. 11 Lascelles, Thirty-‐five years, 29-‐30. 12 Lascelles, Thirty-‐five years, 31-‐32.
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Map 2.3. Communications in the New Forest. Roads after Ordnance Survey, England and Wales sheets 19, 23, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Wiltshire, etc, scale 4 miles to 1 inch (1903); railways and boundary after Kenchington,
Commoners’ New Forest.
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Location of the houses Map 2.4 shows the five areas into which the Forest has been divided for the
purposes of discussion: each has its special characteristics, which are discussed
in the following sections. Brief histories of the houses are presented in
Appendix A. Appendix B contains a list of houses in each area, with an indication
of the date of building, or in the case of old houses, enlargement.
Map 2.4. Areas in which houses are located.
The north: Bramshaw, Fritham, Minstead, and Bartley The northern area was very sparsely populated and there were no houses at all
in the north-‐west. There was a scattering of houses in the parishes of Bramshaw,
Minstead and part of Eling (later Copythorne). Today, the Cadnam-‐to-‐Ringwood
dual carriageway firmly segregates Bramshaw from Minstead, but when traffic
on it was only occasional, the area was much more coherent (Map 2.5). Salisbury
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is mentioned in sales notices as being the nearest station and, despite its
remoteness, road communications were good (Map 2.3).
Map 2.5. Distribution of country houses in the northern New Forest.
Growth was limited by the lack of availability of private lands on which to
build. There were only ten houses in 1860 and this had barely doubled by 1920.
Of the master keepers’ lodges in this area, only Bramble Hill and Castle Malwood
were to become large country houses of any size. Only the Hampshire portion of
the parish was within the perambulation and of this small proportion was in
private hands, Fritham being the most significant enclave. 1 Fritham House is
close to its eastern edge while Fritham Lodge appears to have been built on the
edge of one of the ‘incroachments’ marked on the Drivers’ map. Along the
1 Until the county boundary changes of 1894, the parish of Bramshaw was divided between Hampshire and Wiltshire, H. G. Hutchinson, The New Forest (1895, new edn, 1904), 101.
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western (Hampshire) side of the road in Bramshaw itself the Drivers’ map shows
several private lands, and by the 1820s or 1830s Burnford house had already
been built on one of them; in the 1870s Bramshaw Lodge was built on another.
Bramshaw Hill House was built before 1812 but there is no trace of a private
property there on the Drivers’ map of 1789. One must conclude that the house
was built on what had been, in 1789, crown land.2 This is the only example found
of such a late grant of land to build a house on crown land, or possibly a late
incroachment. In 1916 Fountain Court was built on the same site.
Bartley Regis was part of the royal manor of Lyndhurst. Again, it had a
scattering of houses in the early nineteenth century. Later, around the turn of the
century, when the Woodlands area began to be developed, two houses that
qualify for the sample – Goldenhayes and Woodlands Lodge – were built within
the Forest boundary.
Minstead parish encompassed the manors of Canterton and Minstead. The
larger manor of Minstead had two large pre-‐1860 houses, Minstead Lodge and
Minstead manor house, the seat of the Comptons, lords of the manor until 1943.
Blackwater House was built by the Compton family in the 1880s. Castle Malwood
was originally a small house greatly enlarged and improved in the 1890s and
further improved in the 1910s.
In 1887, the Manor of Canterton was put up for sale after the death of its
owner, the fifteenth marquis of Winchester. The sale particulars give an
interesting insight into the contemporary perception of the market for new
country houses. The plan shown in Figure 2.1 demonstrated how a division into
three smaller estates was envisaged, with the sites for mansions and ornamental
waters being marked.
2 Salisbury and Winchester Journal, 23 Nov. 1812: the remaining two years of the lease of 400 guineas p. a. was being offered for 250 guineas p.a.
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Figure 2.1. Canterton estate: plan showing lots for sale, 1887.
F 10/271, Sale particulars for The Canterton Estate in the New Forest, Hants (First Edition).
The estate included:
SPLENDID WOODLANDS, Handsomely timbered with Oak, Scotch, Spruce and Silver Fir, Beech and Spanish Chestnut, and intersected by Forest Streams full of Trout, and along the course of which there are Natural Gorges which, with a small outlay, could be transformed into large sheets of Ornamental Water; some very CHOICE SITES FOR THE ERECTION OF ONE OR MORE MANSIONS
Commanding some of the finest views of Sylvan Scenery for which the New Forest is so renowned, as the natural advantages for the formation of Greenhill Copse, Blackthorne Copse, and Piper’s Copse into
THREE DISTINCT RESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES3
Emphasis was on the views and the opportunities for sport, but the particulars
also acknowledged the rental value. The elaborate scheme came to little,
3 NFRL N.716 MIN, Canterton Estate Catalogue, 22 July 1887. The plan in F 10/271 refers to the same sale.
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however. The only purchaser appears to have been John Jeffreys4, who built a
new ‘Canterton Manor House’, not on any of proposed mansion sites. No
ornamental waters were ever created.
The centre: Lyndhurst Lyndhurst was a royal manor and the administrative centre of the Forest. After
the enfranchisement of the copyholds in 1835, land became available for
building villas and mansions. By the mid-‐nineteenth century there were about 13
private mansions. By 1920, this number had more than doubled: there were
about 13 in an outer ring (Map 2.6), with a further 17 or so within the village
itself (Map 2.7). By this time, the mansions within the inner area were losing the
character of country houses as the village grew into a small town. Most of the
growth took place between 1870 and 1890. After this, only three were built, The
Cedars and Appletree Court.
Map 2.6. Distribution of country houses around Lyndhurst.
4 VCH Hampshire, IV (1911).
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Map 2.7. Distribution of country houses in Lyndhurst village.
In 1890 the Northerwood estate in Lyndhurst, owned by Keppel Pulteney,
was offered for auction. The sale notice suggested that there was much demand
for residential building sites in the neighbourhood.5 In 1895, Northerwood, and
its dower house, Forest Lodge, were bought by Edward Kelly, who was listed
both in his own directories and the 1901 census as living at Forest Lodge.
Nevertheless, Forest Lodge was again acting as the Pulteney dower house
between 1903 and 1920: it was leased back from its new owner on a 21-‐year
lease (which evidently started at Michaelmas 1900), and Isabella Pulteney lived
there. Forest Lodge and ‘the remaining portions of the Northerwood estate’ were
again up for auction in 1907.6
In the same year, the Glasshayes estate came up for auction. The main
house was described in the sale particulars as a ‘perfectly appointed family
mansion’ with a ‘considerable frontage to the New Forest’. Okefield was included,
‘smaller but equally well favoured’. The lots were shown on a plan (Figure 2.2).
Okefield was sold in 1895 but Glasshayes came up for auction again in 1896, in
four lots. The bidding was slow, but eventually a speculator from London, Mr
Tilley, bought all four lots for £15,000. Tilley was planning to ‘reserve three or 5 The Times, 12 July 1890. 6 Bowden-‐Smith, ‘Lyndhurst’, 14; F 10/350. Land purchases. Northerwood estate: Sale particulars for Forest Lodge, 5 July 1907.
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four acres and the house as an hotel or boarding house’ and divide the rest into
sites of about two acres; up to four villa-‐style houses would then be built each
site, selling for up to £800 for a detached house, and £500 for a semi-‐detached.
This gives an idea of the value of the house and its site to a property speculator. 7
Bowden-‐Smith lamented that ‘The house Glasshayes was sold, the fine trees cut
down and now there is an hotel called the Grand. This is one of the sad changes
of Lyndhurst.’ She would probably have been relieved to know that the proposed
villas were never built.
Figure 2.2. The Glasshayes estate, 1895.
Source: NFRL, Sale particulars for The Glasshayes Estate, 1895. 7 F 10/146. Cutting from the Hampshire Independent, 21 Mar. 1896; Lascelles to E. Stafford Howard, 7 Apr. 1896; F 10/146, Ebrall & Courtney to Gerald Lascelles, 17 Aug. 1896.
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The south: Brockenhurst and Boldre The area through which the Lymington or Boldre river flows has the largest
concentration of country houses in the Forest. The two villages, Brockenhurst
and Boldre have had very different histories and are discussed separately.
Map 2.8. Distribution of country houses in the southern New Forest.
Brockenhurst
Brockenhurst (Map 2.9) retained its village character for longer than Lyndhurst,
probably because almost all the land was owned by one family, the Morants.1
Before 1860 there were only three large houses within the village itself, and two
in the hinterland. Over the following three decades Brockenhurst Lodge was
replaced by a new house, Careys, and three former keepers’ lodges in the vicinity
became country houses. The station opened in 1847, with the coming of the 1 Pinnell, Country house history, 175.
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Southampton and Dorchester railway, and the Lymington branch was added in
1858. In 1874, the Office of Woods was advertising New Park as ‘close to a good
road and within one mile and a half of Brockenhurst Station on the South
Western Railway’.2 It was only in the 1890s that much new development started
to occur, after the Morants started to sell off parts of Brookley manor. This
decision was probably more important to the growth of Brockenhurst than the
opening of the railway, though the proximity of the station certainly stimulated
demand for building sites.
Map 2.9. Distribution of country houses in Brockenhurst village.
Brookley manor comprised three large enclosures of farmland, a small
one to the north of Rhinefield Road, and two larger ones to the south, known as
North and South Weirs. The Morants had to sell off more land there to pay death
duties following the death of Edward Morant in 1910.3 Most of the large houses
built from 1890 to 1920 were built in North Weirs; Black Knoll was built on the
small enclosure to the north, and Oak House and Woodmancote were built in the
2 F 10/24. New Park Farm, draft advertisement for letting, 1874. The bit about the station was moved to a more prominent position in the final advertisement. ‘Railways of Hampshire: the history of the railway companies of Hampshire’, in Hantsweb: Hampshire museums [www3.hants.gov.uk/railways-‐of-‐hampshire, accessed 25 July 2011]. 3 Pinnell, Country house history, 10.
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south of an area of incroachments known as Waters Green. Brookley House itself
appears to have been replaced by Holmwood, and Culverley and The Rise were
built nearby. Outside the village area, the only new country houses added in the
later period were Royden House, which the Morants enlarged for their own use,
and Latchmoor, a brand new house in Arts and Crafts style. The growth in
Brockenhurst came later than in Lyndhurst, but the number of large houses
quadrupled.
Boldre
Map 2.10. Distribution of country houses in the Boldre area.
Today, it is difficult to see the view Gilpin described from Boldre’s Rope Hill (‘a
more open landscape, … stretches of seascape, and a wide expanse generally4),
because of the walls, shrubs and mature trees around the houses that were built
there, seclusion evidently having become more important than the view. The
Boldre area itself (Map 2.10) was nearly all enclosed farmland, mostly divided
between the Brockenhurst and Battramsley estates; to the south in South
Baddesley there were two further large estates, Newtown Park and Pylewell 4 Hutchinson, New Forest, 126.
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Park. Boldre had ten large houses by 1860, twice as many as Brockenhurst, but
the total had only crept up to 17 by 1920. The numbers are similar to those in the
north of the New Forest, but mostly concentrated in a much smaller area. The
village is in the hinterland of Lymington, which was an administrative centre and
resort town. As Gilpin suggested, it was an attractive area for gentry to settle.
The west: Burley
In Burley (Map 2.11), despite the predominance of the lord of the manor, Colonel
Esdaile, who built Burley Manor House in 1851, there were seven country houses
before 1860. Burley Lodge became a country house in the 1870s.5 Before the
1890s, only three houses were added, and one of those, Auberon Herbert’s ‘Old
House’, may really have been just a couple of cottages: the fact that it was
inhabited by an aristocrat does not necessarily make it a ‘country house’.6 In
1894-‐95, Esdaile began to sell off parts of the estate, including the whole of
Bisterne Closes, ‘as a whole or in various lots’.7 It proved a popular site for
building country houses, Holmehurst and Craigellachie being two of the larger
ones. The number of country houses in Burley doubled between 1860 and 1920,
from seven to fourteen.
5 Broomy Lodge was leased to gentry but always appeared too small to be included in the sample. 6 B. Webb, My apprenticeship (1926, Penguin edn, 1971), 199: describes Old House as ‘a little colony of queer red-‐painted buildings; two large cottages and various small outhouses huddled together indistinct from one another and free from any architectural plan. No attempt at a drive or even a path, not even a gate … But once inside the larger cottage, there is comfort, even taste … dining-‐room … sitting-‐room, a guest-‐chamber, the kitchen and pantry on either side of the entrance, complete the rooms on the ground floor. Above, here bedrooms and the family sitting-‐room – this latter gable shape, with a ladder leading on to the roof. There is comfort, even elegance, though a lack of finish, and a certain roughness which has its own charm. Refined eccentricity, not poverty, lives here. The outhouses clustering round the larger cottages are still unfinished … In the smaller cottage live three maidservants; two men, formerly “Shakers”, serve in all capacities’. 7 The Times, 16 June 1894.
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Map 2.11. Distribution of country houses in the western New Forest.
The south-‐east: Beaulieu, Exbury and Fawley In the south-‐east of the Forest (Map 2.12), the Liberty of Beaulieu dominated the
smaller manors of Exbury, Holbury and Cadland (which was only partially within
the perambulation). Before 1860 only five country houses can be identified.
Three were added in the 1880s and 1890s but it was not until the 1900s and
1910s that more houses were developed on the Beaulieu estate, in the wooded
areas rather than on the open pasture, when Lord Montagu began to sell building
leases (Map 2.12). No land on the 10,000-‐acre Beaulieu estate was sold off until
1956-‐7, when Lord Montagu sold about 37 freehold sites and ‘a number of old
cottages’, each with planning permission for one house.8
8 The Times, 13 May 1957.
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Map 2.12. Distribution of country houses in the south-‐eastern New Forest.
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Map 2.13. Distribution of country houses in Beaulieu.
Losses As we have already seen there were a number of losses. Like Glasshayes,
Moorhill House had become a hotel by 1901. Fritham House and Parkhill were
being used as schools. Brockenhurst House was demolished, and Bowden-‐Smith
wrote of that the foundations of Bramshaw Hill were undermined as a result of a
lake having been created in the garden. She records that ‘Mr & Mrs. Sullivan were
living there when the house fell down’, which suggests that the date was c.1867.9
The census records that John Phillipson was living there in 1871: he must have
returned to occupy a partial house that he could no longer let.
Frogmore House appears on the 1872 OS map of Burley but is never
mentioned in any of the directories. By 1897 it has disappeared from the map
and even its boundaries have disappeared.10 Haskells, in Lyndhurst was granted
9 Bowden-‐Smith, ‘Lyndhurst’, 38; Robert Sullivan is listed in the 1867 directory. 10 Nothing is known of this house. Its complete disappearance suggests that perhaps it burnt down.
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a license as an inn in 1884 but had closed by 1896 because it was not
remunerative. 11 Dilamgerbendi Insula, at Picket Post, seems have been
unoccupied after the Reverend Craig’s death in 1889. Twenty years later both it
and Picket Post House were demolished to build a new Picket Post House.
Hollowdene was demolished before 1906, and Littlecroft was burnt down in
1913 (although both were replaced).12
Conclusion There were about 50 houses in the New Forest in the 1850s. There were six
former keepers’ lodges that were converted into country houses, and 12 cottages
or farms (or in one case, an inn) that became country houses. The remaining 67
were ‘new’ houses, including both those newly built on greenfield sites and a
handful that were rebuilt during the period.
The least development occurred in the northern New Forest, with its
scattering of houses, and Boldre where there was a denser concentration. In both
cases the numbers barely doubled. Lyndhurst and Burley experienced a doubling
in the numbers of new houses, but the most significant increases occurred in the
Brockenhurst and Beaulieu areas, where numbers quadrupled, although this
happened earlier in Brockenhurst than in Beaulieu. The most significant factor in
the development of houses appears to have been the availability of land: where
parts of an estate were sold off, new houses could be built. By the end of the
period, allowing for losses, there were about 119 country mansions inside the
perambulation.
11 See Appendix A. 12 NFRL. Photograph entitled ‘Mrs Reynold’s, [Sunnycote, later Hollowdene, now demolished], Emery Down’.
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Chapter 3. Sizes, Facilities, Attractions and Styles
This chapter discusses the physical characteristics of the houses, including
rooms, acreages, and other facilities; the attractions advertised; and the
architectural styles used. Sales and letting notices were the main source of
information about facilities and attractions (Figures 3.1, 3.4, and 3.5). These have
been supplemented by information from other sources where possible,
particularly the 1911 census records that give the total number of rooms. The
architects involved in just a few of the houses are known, and their contribution
is discussed towards the end of the chapter.
Figure 3.1. Sales notices for Malwood, 1925 and 1927.
Source: HRO 159M88/972.
Number of rooms According to the 1911 census figures, the total number of rooms ranged from 9
to 32, but, as we saw in Chapter 1, this is missing for nearly all the largest houses.
Estimates for the total number of rooms (the number of bedrooms plus the
number of reception rooms, rooms such as library, servants’ hall, or
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conservatory plus 1 for the kitchen) range from 9 to 44 rooms. Brockenhurst
House had 46 bedrooms, so it must have had many more rooms altogether.1
Looking in more detail at the advertisements, out of 96, 93 of them gave
some information about rooms. Total bedrooms2 varied wildly, from 5 to 46.3
Cadlands had 35 when advertised in 1924; Foxlease 24 (advertised 1919) and
Minstead Lodge 23 (advertised 1924); Appletree House and The Rings, both
recently built when advertised in the 1920s, each had 19 bedrooms; Castle
Malwood and Northerwood were both advertised in 1889-‐90 with 18 rooms.
When other bedrooms are taken into account, Bartley Lodge (advertised 1879),
Cuffnells (1855), and Ladycross Lodge (1925) each had from 18 to 20. Malwood
was advertised as having ‘ample bedroom accommodation’ in 1972; in 1939 this
was more specifically put as ‘9 principal [and] 5 secondary bed and dressing
rooms’.4 The average ratio of bedrooms to total rooms was 57:100. At the low
end, a house with 10-‐14 rooms would have between 4 and 10 bedrooms and one
with 15-‐19 rooms, between 7 and 16 bedrooms (Table C.3).
As for bathrooms, Rhinefield had ‘several’, Cadlands ‘9 or 10’, Foxlease
nine, Ladycross seven, and Castle Malwood six. Malwood, Picket Post and
Minstead Lodge had five each. While it was perhaps not surprising that 11 of the
houses had only one bathroom each, six of these had 9-‐12 principal bedrooms
(and two of these, Marden and Bramble Hill Lodge were new or recently
improved). At the low end, most houses of 10-‐14 rooms had one or two
bathrooms and a house with 15-‐19 rooms would be fairly unlikely (12 per cent)
to have more than three (Table C.4).
The number of reception and other rooms varied less. Other rooms
included library, study, ‘lounge hall’, billiards room, ‘garden room’ or ‘sun room’,
conservatory, and ‘maid’s room’, ‘servants’ room’ or ‘servants’ hall’. Rhinefield
had ‘a fine suite of reception rooms’ (but it probably also had most of the ‘other
1 Pinnell, Country house history, 186. 2 When counting bedrooms, ‘dressing rooms’ were counted as bedrooms, and a note added that this had been done. The rationale was that sometimes the two were added together in the advertisements: no doubt many of them could be used for either purpose. 3 Two of the four houses for which there is evidence for fewer than 7 bedrooms, had a large number of total rooms in the 1911 census; one had a large number of people living in it in 1911; the fourth was Birds Nest. 4 159M88/972
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rooms as well); Cadlands had eight (all reception rooms: it probably had other
rooms as well), Bramble Hill Lodge seven, Bartley Lodge and Boldre Grange six
each. All the others, with two exceptions, had between three and six.
Sixty-‐one houses had cottages, lodges, or other residences in their
grounds. Apart from the Cadland estate, where 100 cottages were being sold at
the same time, the number of cottages or lodges ranged from one to nine. Boldre
Grange was advertised in 1921 with ‘lodge entrances’ and ‘seven good cottages’;
Burley Hill and Appletree Court had eight each; New Park, Minstead Lodge, and
Forest Lodge (Lyndhurst), had seven each. There were 23 houses that had a
single lodge or cottage.
Acreage The number of acres attached to the properties also varied significantly. Data is
available for 95 houses. At the high end, figures come from advertisements for
entire estates: Cadlands with 3531 acres (1924), St Austins with 2000 (1920),
and Sowley House with 1769 (1964). The remainder range from the ¾ acre
garden at Bench House to 400 acres at Minstead Manor (1949) and 300 acres at
Newtown Park (1831, 1850). Burley Park had ‘about 100 acres’ in 1850, before
Esdaile bought it.5
Temporal variation in size Size of plot depended to some extent on date of building. There were a number of
houses built in Lyndhurst during the 1870s and 1880s on small, even suburban-‐
sized, plots, but until the turn of the century it was not uncommon to build a
house with more than ten or twenty acres of grounds. Boldre Grange (1871) was
endowed with over 200 acres. After 1900, plot size is generally much less. There
is only one exception, Fountain Court, built on the site of Bramshaw Hill House
(Figure 3.2). Number of rooms, too, tends to decrease over time (Figure 3.3).
5 The Times, 20 Sept. 1850, 16 June 1894; HRO15M84/SP11, Sales particulars of a freehold property formerly part of the Burley Manor Estate at Burley near Ringwood, to be sold by auction, 1895; HRO 159M88/227.
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Figure 3.2. Acreage attached to ‘new’ and ‘rebuilt’ houses.
Source: Appendix C.
0 50 100 150 200 250 300
Apple Tree Court (1919) Durns House (1915)
Fountain Court (1915) Drokes, The (1912) Ober House (1912)
Dock House, The (1911) Latchmoor (1911) Rings, The (1911)
Campden House (1910) Picket Post (1909)
Woodmancote (1909) Coxhill Lodge (1907)
Vineyards, The (1907) Wayside (1907)
Abbey Spring (1906) Woodlands Lodge (1905)
Moonhills (1904) Craigellachie (1903)
Culverley (1903) Holmehurst (1903) Burley Hill (1898) Castle Top (1898)
Cedars, The (1898) Durham Lodge (1898) High Coxlease (1898)
Hurstly (1898) Marden (1898)
Orchard, The (1898) Vereley (1898)
Black Knoll (1891) Boldre Bridge House (1891)
Canterton Manor House (1887) Careys (1886)
Annesley (1885) Haskells (1884)
Camp Hill (1881) Goldenhayes (1881)
Hill House (1881) Warborne House (1878)
Birds Nest (1871) Boldre Grange (1871)
Wilverley (1871) Stydd House (1868) Burley Manor (1852)
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Figure 3.3. Room numbers in ‘new’ and ‘rebuilt’ houses.
Source: Appendix C.
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35
Holly Mount (1869) Birds Nest (1871)
Bramshaw Lodge (1875) Warborne House (1878)
Goldenhayes (1881) Hill House (1881)
Broadlands Gate (1892) Cedars, The (1898) Craigellachie (1903)
Moonhills (1904) Hollowdene (1906) Abbey Spring (1906)
Wayside (1907) Harford House (1907)
Whitemoor (1907) Vineyards, The (1907) Woodmancote (1909)
Campden House (1910) Rise, The (1911)
Dock House, The (1911) Drokes, The (1912) Durns House (1915) LiXle Weirs (1924) Stydd House (1868) Brooklands (1869) Camp Hill (1881) Old House (1881) LiXlecroY (1884) Haskells (1884)
Canterton Manor House (1887) Blackwater House (1889)
Black Knoll (1891) Oak House (1891)
Durham Lodge (1898) Burley Hill (1898) Marden (1898)
High Coxlease (1898) Hurstly (1898)
Orchard, The (1898) Castle Top (1898) High CroY (1902)
Holmehurst (1903) Culverley (1903)
Coxhill Lodge (1907) Latchmoor (1911) Ober House (1912)
Boldre Bridge House (1891) Burley Manor (1852) Boldre Grange (1871)
Wilverley (1871) Annesley (1885) Careys (1886)
Holmwood (1891) Allum Green House (1898)
Vereley (1898) Woodlands Lodge (1905)
Picket Post (1909) House in the Wood, The (1911)
Rings, The (1911) Fountain Court (1915)
Apple Tree Court (1919)
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Other facilities Table 3.3 summarises the facilities advertised. Pleasure grounds or gardens were
the most ubiquitous feature and a fifth of them were described as ‘timbered’ with
a small number having their own ‘woodland walks’, garden room or house,
conservatory or loggia (sometimes more than one of these). Outdoor leisure, as
well as the seclusion offered by such grounds, was paramount. Under half had
their own kitchen gardens, a third of them a ‘farmery’ or farm, and nearly a fifth,
greenhouses, suggesting that the production of fresh food was also important.
Over half had their own coach houses or garages, and over half had stables or
loose boxes. Only 16 per cent had paddocks, but 19 per cent had pasture, which
may well have been used for horses. Very few had any arable land, which is not
surprising in this area of poor soils.
Figure 3.4. Sales notices for Boldre Grange, 1921 and 1929.
Source: HRO 159M88/144b.
An example of one of the ‘smaller’ country houses, built around 1900 For most of the smaller houses we have only a brief sale notice, but for Coxhill
Lodge, near Boldre, the sale catalogue from 1938 survives.6 Having only had one
6 716 BOL, Coxhill, Boldre, The New Forest, Hampshire, 1938.
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owner, Lady Gertrude Crawford (1868-‐1937), it is likely that the house was still
much as it was when she had it built. Coxhill had downstairs ‘[an] outer corridor
hall … inner hall … reception hall … ante-‐room … morning room … dining room …
drawing room … cloakroom and separate WC … photographic dark room …
domestic apartments (‘compact and hygenic’) … servant’s hall … butler’s pantry
… store room … nice light kitchen … fitted with Esse cooker … scullery … larder
and additional game larder … double fuel store’. A ‘fine massive oak staircase’ led
to five bedrooms, a dressing room, wardrobe room, heated linen cupboard, two
bathrooms, three maids’ bedrooms and a large staff bedroom. Outside, there
were ‘[a] double garage … with two stand pipes and wash-‐down … two-‐stall
stable … harness room … knife room … chauffeur’s room with sink … WC … two
good rooms, one with fireplace and the other fitted small range and sink …
Timber-‐built lean-‐to potting shed … heated lean-‐to glasshouse … six garden
frames … dairy … separator room … spare garage, feeding house and fruit store
… workshop … loggia’. In addition there was a three-‐bedroom cottage. Outside,
the gardens were ‘a distinct feature of the property’ and there were paddocks,
woodland, fish ponds, a kitchen garden, and farm buildings. The acreage was just
over 15 and the house had ‘forest rights’.
Attractions Field sports were an obvious draw for the New Forest, as were the golf courses
at Bramshaw and Brockenhurst, and the facilities for sailing around the Boldre
and Beaulieu rivers. In 1850, Pennerley Lodge was advertised: ‘To a sportsman
the property is undeniable’.7 In the same year at Vicars Hill, the ‘New Forest
hounds are kept in the neighbourhood, and the premises are conveniently situate
for a gentleman having a yacht, being within a very short distance of good
anchorage in Lymington-‐creek.’8 Unusually, in the New Forest, the hunting
season extended into the month of April: ‘The New Forest hounds meet in the
immediate neighbourhood; deerhounds in March and April. A licence to shoot
and fish in the New Forest (about 60,000 acres) could be obtained, also leave to
shoot about 200 acres enclosure.’9 Minstead Lodge, advertised in 1924 had ‘Fox
7 The Times, 30 Nov. 1850. 8 The Times, 6 Aug. 1850. 9 The Times, 12 Sept. 1879.
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and Stag Hunting five days a week; Beagling and Otter hunting’, and many other
similar examples were discovered.10
It was not just muscular sportsman who could enjoy the amenities of the
Forest. Its attractions to the more delicate were also advertised. At Lyndhurst,
‘good medical advice’ was among the attractions advertised; and ‘for any whose
health is in a delicate state or invalid [Rodley House] would be invaluable. There
are 400 yards of well-‐laid gravel walk for promenade, and an observatory on the
top, with the use of a pony and chaise if needed.’11 The attractions for Woodlands
Lodge, advertised in 1877, were that the ‘neighbourhood is very healthy, affords
good society and excellent hunting and shooting, while the walks and drives in
all directions are singularly beautiful’.12
Figure 3.5. Sales notices for Stydd House, 1928.
Source: HRO 159M88/1607.
10 HRO 159M88/564; 159M88/873; 159M88/1047; 159M88/1607; F 10/24. New Park Farm, draft advertisement for letting, 1874; NFRL N.716 MIN, Canterton Estate Catalogue, 22 July 1887;The Times, 10 Aug. 1881, 13 June 1883, 29 July 1881,. 11 The Times, 12 Sept. 1879, 22 Feb. 1859. 12 The Times, 16 June, 1877.
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Styles and architects It is beyond the scope of this dissertation to discuss the style and architecture of
the houses in detail. Many of the earlier houses were either traditional
Elizabethan or Jacobean, or Georgian in style. For example, Brockenhurst House
was remodelled in the eighteenth century from Elizabethan farmhouse to
Georgian mansion.13 During the period of study, only three houses (Brooklands,
Haskells and Picket Post House) were rebuilt in the Georgian style, which was
now seen as rather conservative and outmoded. By the 1850s, earlier, ‘Gothic’
idioms had been revived to create a ‘Victorian’ style, often using red brick. In
parallel with the Victorian Gothic, houses were built in styles variously termed in
sales notices ‘Elizabethan’, ‘Old English’ or ‘Tudor’, which can collectively be
labelled ‘Tudorbethan’. These houses tended to be either faced in stone or, to a
greater or lesser extent, half-‐timbered, with painted cement rendering. The first
example of this in the New Forest may have been Colonel Esdaile’s rebuilt Burley
Manor House. Rhinefield, was described by Pevsner as ‘large, Tudor, i.e.
Elizabethan, mixed with Flamboyant and Gothic motifs’, and Castle Malwood as
‘a free Jacobean, with some Baroque touches’.14 Starting in the 1890s, the
influence of William Morris and the Arts and Crafts movement can also be seen.
These style groupings seem to have coalesced by the end of the century into an
‘Edwardian’ style. Walter Frank Perkins’ daughter wrote that, c.1920, Boldre
Bridge House, built in the early 1890s as ‘an ugly red brick Edwardian villa, with
much white-‐painted exterior woodwork – rather like the doll’s house in Beatrix
Potter’s “Two Bad Mice”’ received a complete makeover.15 In Burley there were
two examples of new houses described as ‘Queen Anne’.16 On the basis of
sometimes rather unclear contemporary photographs, and the later appearance
of the houses, a classification of the houses has been attempted (Appendix D).
Only twelve architects have been identified as being involved in the
building or remodelling of New Forest houses in this period. Norman Shaw’s
Boldre Grange (1872) was described in 1921 as ‘an exquisite reproduction of an
13 Pinnell, Country house history, 174. 14 N. Pevsner and D. Lloyd, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight (1967), 146, 339. 15 H929.2PER. 16 HRO 159M88/226, 159M88/242.
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Elizabethan Manor House’ (Figure 3.5).17 Thomas Henry Wyatt remodelled
Brockenhurst House in a French chateau style in the 1860s. Palace House in
Beaulieu was restored and enlarged (1872) by church architect Arthur
Blomfield.18 Malwood (1884) was designed in a ‘vaguely Shaw style’ by Ewan
Christian. Ironically, Harcourt had chosen Christian over George Devey as he
thought Devey, who was well known for his cottages and lodges, would not
condescend to build a house costing less than £5000.19 Littlecroft (1884) was
designed by George and Peto for Morton Kelsall Peto and built by his brothers’
firm, Peto Brothers, ‘in a quiet old English style with external quartering and
pargetting … with a boudoir being arranged on the first floor landing above the
porch’ (Figure 3.6). ‘The hall, from which the stairs rose in three flights in a
square space behind posts and arches, recalled … Harold Peto’s house … The
studio, with open roof and gallery was to the right of the hall.’20 Rhinefield
(1888) was designed by fashionable London architects Romaine Walker and
Tanner.21 In 1891 Sir Reginald Blomfield (who restored and altered what later
became the Prime Minister’s country house, Chequers) designed Black Knoll in
what was to become known as the Edwardian style.22 High Coxlease (1898),
Fountain Court (1915) and Apple Tree Court (1919) were all Arts and Crafts
houses, the former by Shaw’s former partner W. R. Lethaby, and the latter two by
local architect George Herbert Kitchin (son of Dean Kitchen of Winchester
Cathedral).23 Guy Dawber, who had trained with George and Peto, designed the
improvements to Ladycross Lodge (1914).24
17 The Times, 3 Sept. 1921. 18 The National Heritage List for England [http://list.english-‐heritage.org.uk], accessed 7 June 2011. 19 Pevsner and Lloyd, Hampshire, 829. 20 H. J. Grainger, ‘The architecture of Sir Ernest George and his partners, c.1860-‐1922’ (Unpubl. PhD. Thesis, 1985), 1367. 21 F 10/34, Rhinefield Lodge, 1889-‐91. 22 HCC, Hampshire treasures, V, The New Forest (1981), 49. 23 F 10/292, High Coxlease Enclosure. Leases for building purposes, 1900-‐1908; K. Bilikowski, ‘Formal gardens in Hampshire’, in Hedley, G. and Rance, A. (eds), Pleasure grounds: the gardens and landscapes of Hampshire (1987), 38; Campion, Recent history, 35 says the architect of Fountain Court was ‘Mr Kitchin, of Winchester Cathedral fame’, but he died in 1912. 24 F 10/160, Lady Cross Lodge, 1884-‐1914.
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Figure 3.6. Littlecroft.
Source: The Architect, 1 Nov. 1884, 281, repr. in H. J. Grainger, ‘The architecture of Sir Ernest George and his partners, c.1860-‐1922’ (Unpubl. PhD. Thesis, 1985).
Conclusion These houses varied both in size, facilities and styles, but formal mansions on a
palatial scale were not popular with the builders and residents of these houses.
Some of the houses were, as Lascelles claimed, ‘overbuilt’, but generally the new
country houses were on a more modest scale, using, overwhelmingly, the new
architectural idioms of pointed gables, fancy chimneys, stone cladding, and faux
half-‐timbering, suggesting a desire to recreate a somewhat romanticised ‘old
English’ rural environment. At the same time, houses were advertised as having
all the modern conveniences that a house in London would have had, stress
being laid on the ‘thousands spent on improvements’ (Figure 3.1). What they all
had in common were the amenities of the neighbourhood, which could appeal
equally to the energetic and sociable, or those who desired seclusion and peace.
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Chapter 4. Conversions, building leases and letting
As we saw in Chapter 2, there was relatively little land available for new
building, except where parts of the large estates were sold off. Other possibilities
for someone wanting a country house in the area included conversion of cottages
and farms and the enlargement of existing houses. The ‘building lease’ was
another possibility, and one that the crown was particularly keen on, to realise
the potential of some of their freehold sites. It is also clear that the turnover of
residents, shown in the directories and census records, was partly the result of
houses being let. This chapter looks at the phenomena of conversions, building
leases and letting in more detail.
Conversions and enlargements Cottage, farm and other conversions range from Bowden-‐Smith’s description of
‘the Cottage, now Oakfield’, as having been ‘improved … very much’ by Mr and
Mrs William Lushington (c.1885-‐88), to much larger projects such as Glasshayes
and Castle Malwood.
Figure 4.1. Glasshayes from the lawn at the rear.
Source: NFRL, Sale particulars for The Glasshayes Estate, 1896.
Glasshayes was described as being ‘not much more than a cottage’ in the
1850s.1 It was for sale in 1861 and the sale notice tells us that it had:
1 Bowden-‐Smith, ‘Lyndhurst’, 5.
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[a] ‘large hall opening to a conservatory, large dining and drawing room, ante-‐room and conservatory, three best bedrooms, two dressing and one bath room, four servants’ rooms, water-‐closet, servant’s hall, housekeeper’s room, butler’s pantry, larder, dairy, beer and wash house, good cellarage, and all convenient domestic offices; first-‐rate stabling, with an apartment for men-‐servants. In the gardens are pineries, forcing-‐pits, summer-‐houses, fountains, &c.2
Charles Castleman was the purchaser, and ‘he altered and improved the house’.3
By 1895 (by which time it looked as it does in Figures 4.1 and 4.2), there were
four principal and seven secondary bedrooms, with four dressing rooms, two
‘men’s bedrooms’ and a boudoir. There were ‘four water closets’ in addition to a
‘lavatory’, the ‘sanitary arrangements’ having been ‘put in order by the present
owner’.
Figure 4.2. Ground plan of Glasshayes.
Source: NFRL, Sale particulars for The Glasshayes Estate, 1895.
Castle Malwood house is thought to have been built in 1802.4 In 1892 it
was purchased by Charles Hill, ‘a well-‐known coffee-‐planter of Ceylon’, for
2 The Times, 8 July 1861. 3 Bowden-‐Smith, ‘Lyndhurst’, 5. 4 Handwritten document entitled ‘Castle Malwood’, now in the possession of Retail Manager Solutions Ltd, available on their Web site [www.retail-‐manager.com/contact-‐us/castle-‐
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£10,000. 5 Hill carried out ‘extensive improvements’, tenders for which were
published in the Hampshire advertiser. They ranged from £8064 to £9118, and
the one that was accepted, ‘subject to slight modifications’, was from a firm in
Lymington, for £8843. 6 Unfortunately, Hill did not live long to enjoy his
retirement: he died in 1894.7 Mrs Hill moved abroad let the house, and sold the
contents.8 Amongst the many items she sold were ‘costly furniture, artistic
modern bedroom suites in mahogany and walnut, winged and other wardrobes
[and] a full sized billiard table’.9 Around 1910, the house was purchased by
Daniel Hanbury.10 He too is said to have made many improvements, including
installing electricity and creating the cricket ground and tennis courts.11
Other examples are Lepe House, originally the Ship Inn, later described as
Lepe Cottage; Gilbury Hard, where two cottages were converted into a house
and, similarly, the Old Mansion in Boldre, where two cottages were joined by a
new structure to make a new mansion. In the south-‐east, three farmhouses later
became known as ‘houses’ – Sowley, Pennerley, and Salternshill, though it is not
clear whether any structural alterations were made.
Building or improving leases Building leases were granted, usually on condition that the lessee spent a certain
amount of money on ‘improvements’. In 1866 Mathias Buckworth Wilks
obtained a 99-‐year lease in for the Red House estate in Lyndhurst, for £150 per
annum, on condition that he ‘expend not less than £2000 within five years of
such lease being granted, in rebuilding or restoring the said dwelling-‐house, and
to keep the same in tenantable repair and insured’.12 Moonhills was built on the
first plot to be leased from the Beaulieu estate and John Turner-‐Turner obtained
malwood/], accessed 15 Aug. 2011. This document dates from after the Southern Elecricity Board purchased the house in 1948. 5 Hampshire Advertiser, 12 Mar. 1892, 19 Mar. 1892. 6 Hampshire Advertiser, 12 Mar. 1892, 21 May 1892. 7 Hampshire Advertiser, 24 Mar. 1894. 8 Hampshire Advertiser, 5 May 1894. 9 Hampshire Advertiser, 29 Apr. 1899. 10 The Times, 16 Nov. 1948. 11 Handwritten document entitled ‘Castle Malwood’. 12 London Gazette, 13 July 1866.
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a 99-‐year lease c.1906-‐09, for a plot to the north-‐east of Palace House, on which
he built Abbey Spring.13
Building leases were also granted by the crown on some of the freehold
lands that it owned. It was one way in which the lands could be exploited to yield
revenue, and it was also hoped that the property would increase in value, which
would be realised in the event that it could later be sold.14
Notices such as this one were placed:
New Forest, Hants.—House, Land, and Shooting.—To be LET, on an IMPROVING LEASE, the HOUSE and PREMISES known as Burley-‐lodge, with about 100 acres of land (more land can be had if desired), delightfully situate in the New Forest, and distant about two miles from Burley, about four miles from Christchurch-‐road Station, about four miles from Lyndhurst, about five miles from Brockenhurst, and 13 from Southampton. Together with the right of shooting over about 325 acres of adjoining land.15
Lascelles, explains that:
In this way, arose such mansions – built on the desirable sites of some of the keepers’ lodges – as Malwood Lodge, built by Sir William Harcourt; Bramble Hill Lodge; Whitley Ridge, Rhinefield, and Lady Cross Lodges. The tendency of the tenant, as one succeeded another, has been to overbuild, and some of these houses have rather outgrown their sites. But they represent valuable property, all of which reverts to the Crown at the expiration of the lease, and they are all very lovely residences.16
In 1883, Sir William Harcourt, MP, purchased a 99-‐year lease on Castle Malwood
Lodge, which was until then the home of the Deputy Surveyor’s assistant. The
yearly rent was £35 for the first two years and £100 thereafter. He was expected
to ‘expend a minimum sum of £3000 in erecting a residence, stables and offices’
but the house he had designed by Ewan Christian cost at least £10,000 (Figure
4.3).17
13 Widnell, Beaulieu record, 409; The Times, 2 Aug. 1924, 6 Aug. 1924, 9 July 1925, 16 Apr. 1926. 14 F 10/350, Purchases of land: proposed purchase of part of Northerwood Estate, 1907. Lascelles noted that the crown is limited to granting leases, but if this restircter were ever to be removed, the Treasury could realise a good profit if it bought any freeholds that came on the market. 15 The Times, 10 Aug. 1881. Burley Lodge was again advertised, this time with 162 acres, in The Times, 13 June 1883 16 Lascelles, 35 years, 55. 17 F 10/11. Treasury warrant authorizing grant of a lease, received by OW 2 June 1883; Ewan Christian to OW, 10 May 1884.
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Figure 4.3. Malwood, showing the old lodge on the left-‐hand side.
Photo: Author.
It took the Office of Woods eight years to find a suitable tenant for
Rhinefield Lodge, for which the original tender for a lease of 31 years had
stipulated that a sum of ‘not less than £2500 [be spent] in repairing, improving
and enlarging the present house and stables [and building] an entrance lodge’.18
Eventually, in 1888, Lionel Walker-‐Munro took an 84-‐year lease (he wanted 99
years), undertaking to spend not less than £4000, to build ‘a really fine house to
put up about 20 visitors with care, stabling for 1[5] horses etc etc’. In negotiating
the lease, he was particularly keen to secure privacy by negotiating an exclusive
right to share access roads across the Forest with the crown.19
From 1856, Bramble Hill Lodge had been let on a 21-‐year lease to a series
of tenants.20 From about 1866 to 1870, the Hon. St Leger R. Glyn, the younger son
of the banker George Glyn, first Baron Wolverton21, spent ‘some £3000 or so in
enlarging and improving the house’ and was granted a lease of 31 years on
condition that he spent a further £1000. In 1907 ‘extensive [al]terations and
improvements were carried out’, by Sir William Mather: ‘the final [ex]penditure
amounted to £13,340 and in view of this Sir William … pressed for an extension
18 F 10/32. Draft tender for building lease, Michaelmas 1881. 19 F 10/33. Walker-‐Munro to George Culley, 17 Feb. 1888; Proposal for Lease signed by Walker-‐Munro, 4 Apr. 1888. But Romaine Walker & Tanner’s estimate ‘for completing the carcase and finishing’ was £18,000 (Pevsner and Lloyd, Hampshire, 146), so the final bill was probably even higher than that. 20 HRO 114M90/3, Lease for 21 years for a messuage called Bramble Hill Lodge, with appurtenances in Bramshaw, 1855-‐1858; F 10/383, undated typescript headed ‘Bramble Hill Lodge’. 21 The Examiner, 23 Apr. 1870.
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of the Lease to 90 years, resulting in the house shown in Figures 4.4 and 4.5. His
surveyor estimated the letting value of the premises at £500 per annum.’ The
Treasury objected to this unless the rent was put up and eventually Sir William
accepted ‘a 65 year Lease at a rent of £230 per annum’.22
Figure 4.4. Sales notice for Bramble Hill Lodge, showing the east elevation. Source: F 10/383.
Figure 4.5. West elevation of Bramble Hill Lodge. Photo: Author.
At Whitley Ridge Lodge, more modest building works were requested by
the tenant, Major Talbot, in 1892. They amounted to the ‘equivalent to two
servants’ cottages’, to be added to the stables, and a new conservatory. The latter
was seen by the Deputy Surveyor as an ‘undeniable improvement’. For this
Talbot would pay ‘interest at the rate of 5% per annum’.23 In 1907, plans were
submitted by the next tenant, Edward Lucas for improvements to the house
(Figure 4.6).
22 F 10/383, undated typescript. 23 F 10/162, Lascelles to George Culley, 20 Apr. 1892, 3 May 1892.
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Figure 4.6. Plans for improving Whitley Ridge Lodge. F10/162, May 1908.
In 1900 the crown also leased part of a freehold enclosure called High
Coxlease, to the south of Foxlease Park (Figure 4.7). The initial plan shows the
‘site of old garden’: had there not been an earlier building here, the crown would
not have been able to sanction a building lease there. As it turned out, the
presence of a new country house inside a forestry inclosure was to cause friction.
Mrs Eustace Smith, the tenant, was ‘a great gardener and a great admirer of
ornamental trees’ and in 1902 she objected to the felling of ‘a small Scotch fir in
the vista opposite’ the house. In 1905 she again complained that the crown was
cutting down trees in the inclosure ‘to the detriment of this Woodland [because
it] joins two freehold properties on the north, and north-‐west, and if the
woodland is destroyed [their] sale … may at any time result in buildings which
will destroy the privacy of the Lessee’ and also because ‘the Woodland to the
west of the house is its only protection from cold winter winds’.24 Privacy and
seclusion were prime attractions of these sites located deep in the Forest.
24 F 10/292, Mrs Eustace Smith to Mr Paget Cooke, 28 May 1905.
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Figure 4.7. Plan for a house at High Coxlease. F10/292, Jan. 1902.
At Ladycross Lodge various lessees made improvements. In 1899, Lord
Darling laid out a sum of £800 for a billiard room, with a dressing room over it,
and in 1914, the total tender for remodelling and rearranging the kitchen and
domestic offices and providing new bathrooms and central heating was £6738.
This included £500 for boring a new well.25
The letting market There appears to have been a thriving letting market. As early as 1850-‐51,
Bartley Manor, with five acres, was advertised at £100 per annum.26 Sometimes
it was not the whole house that was to let, but an apartment: ‘eight of the best
rooms in a 20-‐roomed house, which has four acres of pleasure garden and lawn
ground’.27 This was evidently not a long-‐term success: the whole property was
for sale the following year.28
Some owners would either let or sell: ‘To be LET, Furnished, for three or
four months, or the freehold to be sold, a desirable RESIDENCE, standing in its
25 F 10/160. 26 The Times, 27 June 1850, 15 Apr. 1851. 27 The Times, 24 June 1859, ‘to let’ notice for Rodley House, Boldre (probably Rodlease). 28 The Times, 28 Aug. 1860, sale notice for Rodley House.
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own grounds of nice acres; four reception, 15 bed rooms, convenient offices,
stabling, &c. Terms eight guineas per week.’29 Some people were willing to either
rent or buy: ‘A RESIDENCE WANTED, to Rent or Purchase, in Hants, near the
New Forest. It must contain six best bedrooms, with the usual reception and
servants’ rooms, &c. A few acres of land.’30
Properties are advertised for summer or winter lets: ‘HANTS (near the
New Forest).—For the winter months or a term, a COUNTRY RESIDENCE, newly
furnished, with delightful grounds. Three or four reception rooms, conservatory,
11 bed rooms, usual offices; three stalls, &c.’31
Mrs Bowden-‐Smith mentions many examples of houses being let, such as:
‘We rented Vernalls of Admiral Aitcheson and bought it of him in 1860.’ Minstead
Lodge was ‘let to many different people’.32 In 1876 Sir Reginald Graham started
his married life by renting Fritham Lodge from the Heathcote family.33 After
purchasing Birds Nest in 1881, the Commissioner of Woods was ‘prepared to let’
it in 1889; it was still let at the time Bowden-‐Smith was writing, in 1906.34 Mr
and Mrs William Lushington, who, as already mentioned, improved The Cottage
rented it and its 2a. 2r. 38p. from Colonel Macleay on a 21-‐year lease, starting in
1882, for £180 per annum.35 In the same decade, the Earl of Londesborough
rented Northerwood from the Pulteneys, and in 1884, Charles Woodroffe of
Silverhill, Hastings was advertising The Stydd House ‘to be let furnished, or sold’,
describing himself as its owner.36 In 1907, Forest Lodge in Lyndhurst, with 6a.
1r. 30p. and six main bedrooms, was leased for £180 per annum.37 Holmfield was
the property of the crown and the Office of Woods let it to tenants: in 1912 the
rent was £258 per annum.38
29 The Times, 26 May 1859. 30 The Times, 17 Jan. 1870. 31 The Times, 10 Nov. 1881. 32 Bowden-‐Smith, ‘Lyndhurst’, 2, 36. 33 See Appendix A. 34 The Times, 3 May 1889; Bowden-‐Smith, ‘Lyndhurst’, 12. 35 See Appendix A. 36 Hampshire Advertiser, 16 Aug. 1884. 37 F 10/350. Land purchases. Northerwood estate: Sale particulars for Forest Lodge, 5 July 1907. 38 F 10/79, Holmfield Lodge, 1888-‐97. Gerald Lascelles to the OW, 14 Mar. 1912.
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Figure 4.1. Plan showing Holmfield and its grounds (green).
F 10/147, Section of OS map (1897 Edition).
The market for rented property allowed owners to retain property even
when they had no need for it themselves. After the death of Admiral Aitcheson in
1861, Bowden-‐Smith says his widow let Shrubbs Hill to Captain Martin Powell
and his wife. The directories list Powell from 1867 to 1875. Mrs Aitchison was
the daughter of Henry Combe Compton, and she evidently went back live with
her father at the manor house in Minstead. She ‘married again, Sir H[enry]
Codrington’, when to live with him in Devonport, and, presumably after his
death, is listed as living again at Shrubbs Hill in 1878. After her death in 1880,
the property was then passed on to Aitchison’s son, another Admiral.39
After Mr Charles Hill’s death in 1894, his widow went abroad and broke
up the establishment at Castle Malwood house, leaving Mrs R. W. Heathcote of
Broomy Lodge to deal with enquiries about the redundant staff: a housemaid,
two third housemaids and an under-‐parlourmaid. A ‘brougham, a four-‐wheeled
dog cart, a waggonette, and a set of double harness (new)’ also had to be
disposed of. The house was again let, and only six months later it had been sold.40
After Sir William Harcourt’s death in 1904, Malwood was let to at least two
tenants before it was sold in 1921.41
39 1861 census; 1871 census; Bowden-‐Smith, ‘Lyndhurst’, 30. 40 Hampshire Advertiser, 5 May 1894, 16 Jan. 1895, 10 July 1895. 41 See Appendix A.
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Houses were let for holidays and for work-‐related reasons. There are
several instances of doctors living in rented houses. From 1895 to 1899
Mansfield Smith-‐Cumming, naval intelligence officer, lived at Burnford house
while supervising the building of the Southampton boom defences.42 In 1876
William Standish was ‘residing at Forest Bank, Lyndhurst, during the hunting
season’ and ‘generously gave the wedding breakfast’ for one of his former
servants.43 The same year, Lord Edward Churchill advertised Bartley Manor
House to let ‘for three or four months, from 1st May’.44 In 1881, Burnford House
was ‘To be LET for Michaelmas for a term’.45 In 1891 Bartley Lodge was let for
six months to Monsieur Auguste Pellerin, for whom a new margarine factory was
being built at Northam in Southampton. He brought his own horses and
carriages. When he left, it was thought ‘probable that he will take a residence
near Southampton’, as Bartley Lodge had now been sold. 46
Conclusion People who wanted to enjoy the New Forest from the comfort of a luxurious and
well-‐equipped mansion were prepared to spend large sums of money converting
and enlarging smaller properties to suit their needs. They were also prepared to
rent houses for longer or shorter periods. A house might be let by the family that
owned it for a generation, and then taken in hand again when needed. The two
phenomena were not unrelated: the building or improving lease seems to have
been a well-‐accepted way in which the owner could have improvements made to
his property, while also collecting rent for it, albeit that the rent was reduced in
consideration for the amount spent on the improvements. The tenant gained
land in a desirable location, with sufficient security to allow them to build. The
crown was particularly keen on the use of building leases as it was not permitted
to sell freeholds outright, and was disinclined to spend any money itself.
42 See Appendix A. 43 Hampshire Advertiser, 23 Feb.1876 44 Hampshire Advertiser, 29 Apr. 1876. 45 The Times, 29 July 1881, 1 Nov. 1881. 46 Hampshire Advertiser, 2 May 1891, 14 Nov. 1891.
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Chapter 5. Residents
Clearly the New Forest is growing in favour as a place of country residence. Sir William Harcourt found out its beauty and salubrity years ago … He showed the way to Mr. Lawson Tait, the eminent surgeon, whose delightful forest dwelling is the admiration of all his friends and the envy of not a few. Now I hear that Mr. W. Jaffray, one of the wealthy sons of the wealthy proprietor of the Birmingham Post, has decided to have a home in the Forest. For this purpose he has bought Stydd House, and several other leading people are looking for residences in the same sylvan neighbourhood.1
This quotation gives an idea of some of the people who lived in the country
houses of the New Forest: were they typical? How could they afford to live there
and do we know just how rich they were?
To answer these questions, a wide range of sources was consulted, as
described in Chapter 1, and the proprietors and residents of the houses were
assigned to one of three categories, landowners, industry and commerce, or
professions. The number of people in each category is summarised in Table F.2.
People are in the ‘landowners’ category either because there is positive evidence
that they owned land, were members of the aristocracy, officers, artists or people
of letters2, or they described themselves as living off their own means or ‘funds’
or as farmers in census returns. Clearly, it is just an assumption that all these
people were members of the old landowning classes: at this period, some of
them may have lived off other investments such as gilts. The ‘industry and
commerce’ and ‘professions’ categories appear more straightforward but there
are two problems with all of them. First, the source of family wealth is often an
important factor: a person who puts ‘own means’ down in a census return could
easily be a second or third-‐generation industrialist or professional. Secondly,
1 Derby Mercury, 2 Jan. 1889. 2 ‘Private means’, based on land or investments were needed to buy a commission in the Army or Navy, or to support a ‘struggling artist’.
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many families cannot be neatly pigeon-‐holed into one category. Industry and
commerce, or for that matter, trade, often go hand-‐in-‐hand. Indeed, wealth made
in industry and commerce was used to buy land, and landowners used spare
capital or other resources (such as the land itself) in business ventures.3 These
caveats need bearing in mind when reading the following sections. With the
wealthy, too, there is often a blurring of the boundaries between an occupation
as a means of making a living, and one that is practised for its own sake. For this
reason, following the sections on the categories described above, this description
of New Forest society ends with two sections on politics, and arts and letters.
Landowners Over half of the people whose backgrounds have been identified were in this
category, and nearly half of them were army or naval officers. Some described
themselves as landowners in the census returns, like Mathias Buckworth, who
built Brooklands in 1866, and described himself as ‘landed proprietor’. In 1882
he left a personal estate of £42,000.4 The Hon. Dudley Stanhope, of Bartley Close
1901-‐15, owned about 6000 acres.5 In the 1871 census, Fanny Robbins of Castle
Malwood owned ‘100 acres employing 5 labourers’. There are many other
examples (see Appendix F). Many more who simply described themselves as
‘living on own means’ would have been living on rents, and others too would
have partially relied on the income from land owned elsewhere in Hampshire or
other counties.
Industry and commerce This category includes representatives of manufacturing, mining, construction;
publishing; and trade and commerce, especially banking.
Manufacturing, mining and construction Eustace Smith, who built High Coxlease, was a Northumbrian shipbuilder, dock-‐
and ship-‐owner, ‘business interests worth £60,000 a year’ which he inherited in
1860 from his father, who had built it up from a rope-‐making business. When he
3 Thompson, Gentrification, Chapter 2, ‘Aristocrats as entrepreneurs’. 4 The Times, 1 Sept 1882. 5 ‘HARRINGTON’, Who Was Who, [www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U197565, accessed 31 July 2012].
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died in 1903, he left £123,151; in 1919 his widow left £17,693.6 Sir William
Mather, builder of Bramble Hill Lodge, was a mechanical engineer from
Manchester, apprenticed in his family machine works and foundry, which he
built up into a manufacturing company producing textile-‐finishing equipment,
Mather and Platt Ltd., with initial capital of £135,000 (two-‐thirds of the stock
being held by Mather). The firm diversified into making other equipment and he
also founded other companies making batteries, chloride and caustic soda. When
Mather died in 1920 his estate was worth £405,841, with net personalty of
£394,896. 7 Daniel Hanbury, who bought Castle Malwood in 1910, was an
engineer and one of the directors of Allen and Hanbury, the makers of baby food
and pharmaceutical products. His uncle was Daniel Hanbury the pharmacologist,
and his father Sir Thomas Hanbury had wide trading interests, including tea, silk,
currency, and cotton, who died in 1907 leaving £789,124. As a younger son, his
own unsettled estate in 1948 was £108,821.8
Mabel Walker-‐Munro, builder of Rhinefield House, was the only daughter
and heiress of Thomas Walker of Eastwood Hall in Nottinghamshire and the
Barber Walker Company, owner of numerous collieries, who died in 1871.9 Sir
George Thursby, who built Fountain Court, also owed his fortune to coal. His
grandfather had married the heiress of the Ormerod estate in Lancashire, whose
father Colonel John Hargreaves had inherited coal mines in Burnley from his
uncle, who in turn had ‘acquired them by marrying the widow of their original
owner’. Ormerod house itself became unsafe due to mining subsidence and had
to be demolished in 1947. Although Sir George’s father Sir John Thursby died in
Cannes, he is said to have ‘missed the bright fires that came from Lancashire
6 ‘Smith, [née Dalrymple], Martha Mary [Eustacia] (1835–1919)’, DNB [www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/62864, accessed 12 Aug. 2012]. 7 ‘Mather, Sir William (1838–1920)’, DNB [www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/45649, accessed 12 Aug. 2011]; The Times, 2 Dec. 1920. 8 ‘Hanbury, Sir Thomas (1832–1907)’, DNB [www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/54055, accessed 12 Aug. 2012]; The Times, 16 Nov. 1948. 9 ‘Greasley St Mary’ in Southwell and Nottingham Church History Project [southwellchurches.nottingham.ac.uk/greasley/hhistory.php, accessed 21 Aug. 2012]; London Gazette, 11 Aug. 1871.
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coal’. The Thursbys also owned an estate of 3500 acres in Lancashire and
Yorkshire, which was advertised for sale in 1922.10
John Turner-‐Turner, whose father owned the old house on the site of Sir
George Thursby’s Fountain Court, also inherited money: his grandfather Richard
Turner had made his fortune from the manufacture of boot blacking.11
William Firth, who possibly built Hurstly as a second home, was a carpet
manufacturer of Heckmondwike in Yorkshire. The Firths were at Heckmondwike
in 1911, but were also listed in the directories as the residents of Hurstly 1903-‐
23. When Mrs Firth died in 1937 her estate was £46,106 gross, net personalty
£38,242, and she left £500 to the Lymington Cottage Hospital’s William Eustace
Firth endowment fund.12
Inevitably, the New Forest attracted wealth from overseas: in 1912 Anne
Archbold Saunderson and her husband purchased Foxlease. Her father, John
Dustin Archbold, was president of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey,
having been Rockefeller’s right hand man before the dissolution of Standard Oil
in 1911.13
Morton Kelsall Peto, the son of Sir Samuel Morton Peto (contractor for
railways and public works), and Edward Lingard Lucas (the grandson of Thomas
Lucas of Messrs Lucas Brothers, builders and contractors), both chose the New
Forest for their homes.14 Peto had Littlecroft (Figure 5.1) built in up-‐and-‐coming
Emery Down in 1886, and Lucas lived at Setley House, 1898-‐1901, followed by
Whitley Ridge Lodge, 1902-‐07. Peto’s father had eventually overreached himself
by undertaking the construction of the rather-‐too-‐speculative London, Chatham,
and Dover Railway, and went bankrupt in 1866.15
10 Ian, Paul and Martin Ormerod, ‘John Hargreaves’ in The Ormerod family Website [www.ormerod.uk.net/History/Hargreaves/john_hargreaves.htm, accessed 3 June 2011]; David Robarts, ‘John Hardy Thursby 1st Bart Thursby’ in Ancestors of David Robarts [www.stepneyrobarts.co.uk/7130.htm The Times, 15 Aug. 1922. 11 Bowden-‐Smith, ‘Lyndhurst’, 37. 12 See Appendix A. 13 ‘Archbold Family Collection’ in Syracuse University Library Finding Aids [library.syr.edu/digital/guides/a/archbold_fam.htm, accessed 2 Aug. 2012]. 14 Messrs. Lucas Brothers [www.lucasbrothers.co.uk/, accessed 31 July 2012] 15 ‘Peto, Sir (Samuel) Morton, first baronet (1809–1889)’, DNB [www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/22042, accessed 20 Oct. 2011].
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Figure 5.1. Littlecroft, Emery Down, home of Morton Kelsall Peto, 1886-‐1913.
Source: Illustration by Walter Tyndale in H. G. Hutchinson, The New Forest (new edn, 1904).
As young men, Charles Thomas Lucas and his brother Thomas, were employed
by Peto, who was extremely influential in their careers. They built Peto’s own
country house at Somerleyton in Suffolk and were also involved in the LC&DR.16
Also deriving his wealth from construction, George Meyrick (son of the
Bournemouth property developer), lived at Holmfield from 1923 to 1928.
Publishing Publisher John Maxwell built Annesley House and other properties in Bank and
Lyndhurst.17 Edward Kelly, managing director of Kelly’s Directories, purchased
the Northerwood estate in 1895 but sold it again in 1907. He died in 1939,
16 ‘Lucas, Charles Thomas (1820–1895)’, DNB [www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/49439, accessed 21 Aug. 2012]. 17 Maxwell’s income may have depended largely on his wife, the novelist Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s output. Their initials are to be seen on the Crown hotel buildings in Lyndhurst High Street (Babey and Roberts, Lyndhurst, 64).
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leaving an estate of £467,211.18 John Munton Jaffray, of Stydd House, was a
younger son of Sir John Jaffray, founder of two Birmingham newspapers. In the
1881 census Henry Forbes Witherby described himself as ‘Law stationer
employing 169 men’. He was able to retire, c.1899, to his new house, Holmehurst,
to indulge his passions for painting and ornithology and leave the business to be
run by his sons.19
Trade and commerce Lord Londesborough rented Northerwood in the 1880s, and is said to have
owned ‘nearly 53,000 acres in Yorkshire, worth £68,000 per annum in rental
income’. But much of this wealth had come to his father from his great-‐uncle,
Joseph Denison, a banker, ‘among the eight or ten wealthiest British
businessmen at the time of his death’ in 1806.20 Other residents with banking
backgrounds include the Drummonds of Cadlands, whose bank merged with the
Royal Bank of Scotland in 1924; St Leger Richard Glyn, lessee of Bramble Hill
Lodge, was the son of the first baron Wolverton; Hugo Baring of Battramsley
House 1919-‐23 was director of Barings Bank; ‘Bank Director’ Herbert George
Alexander built The Old Mansion c.1903; George John Fenwick, builder of Alum
Green House, was a banker and owner of Fenwick’s Brewery in Chester-‐le-‐Street,
and left £1,186,845 in 1913; and the Hon. Archibald Dudley Ryder, who may
have built Durns House c.1915, was senior partner of Coutts Bank.21
John B. Fleuret of Forest Lodge, seems likely to have been the grandson of
John Beach Fleuret, who founded Fleurets the licensed property brokers in the
1820s. He was never in residence on census night: presumably he had other
property to enjoy.22 Herbert Humphery, who built Moonhills c.1907, was a
Lloyds underwriter, as was William Wathen-‐Bartlett who built Vereley in 1898
and lived there until his death in 1934.
18 See Appendix A. 19 ‘Witherby history’ in Witherby Publishing Group [www.witherbypublishinggroup.com/WitherbyHistory.aspx, accessed 21 Aug. 2012] and Appendix A. 20 ‘Denison, William Joseph (1770–1849)’, DNB [www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/7491, accessed. 20 Aug. 2012]. 21 Glyn’s father left ‘under £1,000,000’ in 1873, ‘Glyn, George Carr, first Baron Wolverton (1797–1873)’, DNB [www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/41283, accessed 12 Aug. 2012]. 22 ‘Fleurets history’ [www.fleurets.com/about-‐fleurets/history.asp, accessed 12 July 2012].
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Edward Penton’s business, Edward Penton & Son, had ‘developed under
his hand from small beginnings’. He had already retired, leaving the company’s
management to his son, but at the outbreak of the Great War, he returned to look
after the firm to enable his son (later Sir Edward Penton) to superintend the
supply and distribution of boots on behalf of the Royal Army Clothing
Department. Penton’s obituary emphasises the sacrifice made on his part to the
war effort, but, nevertheless, Edward Penton & Son were implicated in
complaints of war-‐time profiteering when ‘War Time’ shoes were found to be on
sale at 19.3 per cent mark-‐up. Certainly, the boot trade had been lucrative
enough to allow the elder Penton to collect pottery, porcelain, decorative
furniture and Persian carpets, as well as building Apple Tree Court c.1919.23
Trade with the empire was represented too. The Morant family wealth
was based on sugar plantations in Jamaica.24 William Cunningham Fairley had
retired from Anderson Fairley and Gray, East India Brokers, when he moved to
Burnford House in 1885.25 Mr Charles Hill, who spent so much on Castle
Malwood, was a coffee planter from Ceylon (see Chapter 4).
The professions In addition to at least 13 members of the legal profession, the professions
included academics (the Rev. Frederick Jervis-‐Smith, who retired to Battramsley
House from lecturing in engineering at Oxford; Miss Blanche Athena Clough, of
Burley Hill, Vice-‐Principal of Newnham College Cambridge; James Easterbrook of
Whitemoor, retired grammar school headmaster); retired clerics (the Rev.
Arthur Baillie-‐Hamilton, Burley Lodge, 1898-‐1910, and Julian Chichester
Patterson, Broadlands Gate, 1911-‐23); retired medics (Andrew Hamilton, lessee
of Bramble Hill Lodge 1857-‐59, and John Maskew, Elcombes, 1881); civil
servants (Frederick Beatson Taylor of Birds Nest 1911, and William Kaye, who
retired to Rope Hill in 1898, were pensioners of the Indian Civil Service; Clement
Dale of Bartley Lodge 1874-‐78, a judge in Madras; Frederick Astell Lushington,
Rosière 1878-‐89 had had a career in India; Hermann Bowden-‐Smith, who built
23 The Times, 8 Jan. 1918, 28 Nov. 1919, 7 Oct. 1921, 11 Oct. 1921, 15 Oct. 1921, 18 Oct. 1921, 9 Mar. 1926. 24 Pinnell, Country house history, 173. 25 The Times, 6 Jan. 1885.
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Careys, had worked for the Egyptian Civil Service; William Clarke, CBE, Wayside,
1923, was a civil servant); engineers (Godfrey Samuelson, Exbury House, 1901,
and William Meischke-‐Smith, Boldre Hill, 1918; and possibly Hugh Perronet
Thompson, Rodlease, 1915). Frank Perkins of Boldre Bridge House was a
surveyor and land agent from Southampton and Herbert Knight, who bought
Apple Tree Court from Edward Penton in 1922, an architect.26
Arts and letters ‘Private means’ allowed one, if so inclined, to pursue an artistic life, and the New
Forest obviously held its attractions for artists. There were three landscape
painters living at Oak House, Brockenhurst, from about 1891. Although none of
them was born in the area, all stayed for the rest of their lives; one of them, Hugh
Wilkinson, was moderately successful, displaying 42 pictures at the Royal
Academy and having pictures bought by galleries such as the National Gallery of
Sydney. One of Wilkinson’s local landscapes is shown in Figure 5.2.
Figure x. New Park Farm, Brockenhurst by
Hugh Wilkinson. Source: NFRL.
For nearly seventy years I have worked chiefly in a little corner of the New Forest … A very long, and very happy life with Nature, and a complete devotion to It, and to Its Infinite Beauty and Mystery, brought me to the deep belief in the Divine Spirit throughout Nature … The happiest Possession is the intensest appreciation and love of Nature, and the ability to follow it. It is the “All in All” for Man, for God is always there.27
HUGH WILKINSON Brockenhurst, 1944
Another artist who built a country house here was Morton Kelsall Peto,
whose background has already been discussed. Peto is a classic example of a son
who, although he inherited his father’s artistic talent, did not inherit his business
acumen: his brother Basil wrote in his diary that, although Morton had helped to
26 For references, see Appendix A. 27 The quotation is from a label affixed to the back of a painting by Hugh Wilkinson for sale at the time of writing [www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hugh-‐Wilkinson-‐Oil-‐on-‐Canvas-‐Painting-‐of-‐Snowdon-‐in-‐Wales-‐from-‐near-‐Bethgelert-‐/261083787346, accessed 17 Aug. 2012]. The author asked her cousin, Richard Beresford, current Curator of European Art at the Gallery of New South Wales whether he had heard of this artist: ‘I do remember the name. Wilkinson. Yes I think he was one of the contemporary artists we were buying back in the 1890s. Almost all the pictures the gallery bought back then have proved to be worthless and have been sold off. I guess the same will be the fate of the contemporary art we are buying today!’
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start the firm of Peto Brothers in 1872, he ‘was not suited to business and retired
after a few years with £10,000 to follow Art and study painting’.28 His house, as
has already been discussed, contained a purpose-‐built studio.
Writers living in the sample houses include the poetess Harriet Roberts,
novelists Catherine Gore and Mary Elizabeth Braddon, and writers W. J. C. Moens
and Auberon Herbert. Living in Burley seems to have inspired Vanda Wathen
Bartlett, who lived with her husband William at Vereley, to write The gap in the
garden (1903), a novel set in a fictional village called Lynwool with a fictional
house called The Chase, ‘an imposing property situated in the bosom of the
Dashshire moors’.29
Politics One might expect to find that, among owners of large country houses, the
dominant political stance would be Tory. Indeed from 1885 to 1906, the New
Forest constituency’s three Conservative MPs were all owners of country houses:
Francis Compton (1885-‐1892), John Douglas-‐Scott-‐Montagu (1892-‐1905) and,
after the by-‐election of 1906, Henry Francis Compton. At the next general
election, ‘the Liberals … captured the New Forest constituency which had been a
Tory stronghold for centuries’.30 Robert Hobart was the successful Liberal: he
became 1st Baronet Langdown in 1914.31 At the 1910 General Election, another
of the country house owners, Walter Frank Perkins, was returned as a
Conservative. His daughter recalls that he ‘had not sought the candidature and
had neither the social standing nor the substance then regarded as requisite for
County Members; but he was a very good speaker and a man whom everyone
trusted’.32 Other Conservative politicians among the residents of country houses
in the Forest were Sir John Rivett-‐Carnac, Member for Lymington, 1852-‐59, who
28 Basil Peto’s diary, 16, in the possession of Lady Matheson, granddaughter of Basil Edward Peto and quoted in H. J. Grainger, 'The architecture of Sir Ernest George and his partners, c.1860-‐1922' (University of Leeds Department of Fine Art, Unpubl. PhD. Thesis, 1985), 37. 29 V. Wathen-‐Bartlett, The gap in the garden (London, 1903). 30 HRO H929.2PER Carver, the Perkins family of Boldre Bridge House: Ch. 4. Mary Hopkirk’s description of ‘Boldre before the first world war’. Perkins endowed the Perkins Library at the University of Southampton. 31 Langdown Lodge is just outside the perambulation. 32 HRO H929.2PER Carver, the Perkins family of Boldre Bridge House: Ch. 4. Mary Hopkirk’s description of ‘Boldre before the first world war’.
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lived at Warborne, and Henry Forster of Exbury, who represented Sevenoaks,
1892-‐1918.
Other political shades were, nevertheless, represented in the Forest. At
least one advocate for women’s suffrage was represented in the sample. In the
1911 census, Bessie Cosens, widow of physician Charles Cosens and head of the
household at Wayside, in Brockenhurst, described herself as ‘Member of the N U
W S Society’, adding at the bottom of the form ‘and I protest against the injustice
of having to help a government which refuses me the Parliamentary vote’.33
Auberon Herbert, though he was the third son of the Earl of Carnarvon, and had
stood unsuccessfully as a Conservative in his youth, had also been Liberal MP for
Nottingham, 1870-‐4 before he retired to live a Bohemian life deep in the Forest
at Old House. His ideas were based on those of Herbert Spencer, and he had an
important influence on Beatrice Webb, who visited him at Old House.34
More conventionally, another aristocrat, William Denison, known as Lord
Londesborough when he was living at Northerwood, had been Liberal MP for
Beverley, 1857-‐9, and Scarborough, 1859-‐60. John Lewis Ricardo (d. 1862),
nephew of the economist, was Liberal MP for Stoke-‐on-‐Trent from 1841, and
lived at Exbury from 1859. Eustace Smith, had been Liberal MP for Tynemouth
1868-‐85: he barely lived to see High Coxlease built. 35 Sir William Mather
represented Salford as a Liberal, 1885-‐86; Gorton, Lancashire, 1889-‐95; and
Rossendale in the same county, 1900-‐04. In 1912 a Liberal gathering was held in
the grounds of Bramble Hill, where the speaker, Captain the Hon. A. C. Murray,
MP, was asked to explain the government’s new land policy, otherwise known as
the single tax on land values. Murray wriggled out of answering the question by
denying that the government had yet formulated such a policy and that it would
probably be ‘no less unworkable in practice than it was fantastic in theory’.36
Sir William Harcourt was Liberal MP for Oxford City from 1868 to his
death in 1904, and Chancellor of the Exchequer under Gladstone. While out of
office in 1889, Gladstone’s proposed visit to Malwood was remarked upon by the 33 National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies. 34 ‘Herbert, Auberon Edward William Molyneux (1838–1906)’, DNB [www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/33828, accessed 6 Aug. 2012]. 35 ‘Smith, [née Dalrymple], Martha Mary [Eustacia] (1835–1919)’, DNB [www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/62864, accessed 12 Aug. 2012]. 36 The Times, 20 July 1912.
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Hampshire Advertiser: ‘His visits to this part of the country, we believe, have been
“few and far between,” Hampshire being strongly anti-‐Gladstonian in principles’.
One gets the impression that Harcourt did not get on particularly well with the
neighbours. In 1889, after a newspaper confusion between Castle Malwood and
Malwood, Colonel Henry Shakerley telegraphed the Hampshire Advertiser to
complain that ‘No Liberal meeting has been held at Castle Malwood or ever will
be as long as I am tenant. Please correct your report on Saturday’.37 Referring to
his neighbours at Minstead Lodge, Harcourt wrote that ‘Lady Gosford … keeps up
an anti-‐cyclone of Tories and Orange-‐folk’.38 He had built Malwood as an escape
from politics:
The house proclaims its owner to be a man of culture, there are shelves of books along one side of the broad corridors—the overflow of an extensive if not very remarkable library. Of Sir William’s many years’ service to the State there is scarcely a hint or suggestion. A visitor … might easily conclude that it was but the residence of a country gentleman with a love for books.39
The prevailing views of the neighbourhood did not prevent Harcourt from
enjoying his life there. In 1888, two years after he and Lady Harcourt moved into
Castle Malwood Lodge, he wrote ‘A delicious sun—beautiful west wind—the
Forest a paradise. How can you all be such fools as to occupy yourselves about
politics? I have forgotten they exist.’40
Conclusion Like Sir William, many who had the means to do so were drawn to this area by
its ‘beauty and salubrity’. All walks of life were represented, and the newcomers
came from diverse regions of the country. Many came to raise families – one
example is the Lillingston family of Bartley Lodge – and newcomers often passed
37 Hampshire Advertiser, 14 Aug. 1889. The meeting of the Shirley Working Mens’ Club was held at Malwood and was reported in the same issue. This was not the only time the press confused the two houses: in July 1888 Castle Malwood house was advertised ‘to let’. The press reported that ‘Sir Wm. Harcourt’s grand castle in the New Forest is advertised to be let “for three, five, or seven years.” Sir William divided his attention between the Home Office and the construction of Castle Malwood, and speculation is running high to account for his sudden abandonment of so expensive and colossal a toy. Can he contemplate a residence abroad?’ (Morning Post, 7 July 1888). It was an understandable mistake but one that gives an insight into the contemporary view of extravagance on the part of cabinet ministers. 38 Harcourt to Morley, 11 Jan. 1888, quoted in Gardiner, Harcourt, II, 134 39 Northern Echo, 6 July 1896, quoting an article in Cassell’s Family Magazine. 40 Derby Mercury, 14 July 1886; Harcourt to Morley, 5 Mar. 1888, quoted in Gardiner, Harcourt, II, 132.
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their property on within the family – an example being the Sykes family of
Elcombes.41 Many more came towards the end of their lives. While living in the
Forest they pursued many different interests – not all were the ‘huntin’ and
shootin’’ type – and local society was the richer for their contribution, not just
economically but also culturally.
41 Just two announcements of the births of the Lillingston children were in The Standard, 9 Aug. 1880 and the Hampshire Advertiser, 28 Mar. 1891; the DNB entry for Sykes’s daughter describes it as their family home: ‘Sykes, Ella Constance (1863–1939)’, DNB [www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/73441, accessed 12 Aug. 2012].
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Conclusion
The foregoing chapters have demonstrated the wealth of information that can be
found on individual houses and their owners or occupiers from material that has
been digitised and made available online, including sales notices and obituaries
in newspapers, census records and death records, together with information
from the directories and sales notices deposited in the county record office. It is
true that identifying the precise building dates of many of the houses was
difficult, but most could be dated to within a few years. Information could not be
discovered for all of the houses, but details of rooms and so on were found for 67
per cent. The same was true of the residents: something is known of the
backgrounds of 82 per cent of them. This led to the most interesting findings,
firstly the sheer number of houses that satisfied one or more of the criteria,
secondly the turnover of residents, and thirdly, the wide cross-‐section of society
represented.
Location and date About half of the country houses in the Forest in 1920 had been built since 1860,
a further 13 per cent being country houses that were formerly lodges, farms, or
cottages. Of the remainder, the old houses, two thirds had been enlarged or
extended during the period. The peak decades for building or conversion were
the 1890s and 1900s, ramping up through the 1860s to 1880s and tailing off in
the 1910s. Some new houses replaced old houses: nearly always on a one-‐to-‐one
basis: the grounds of old houses were not sold off to build multiple smaller ones,
although this was attempted by the owner of Canterton and the property
speculator who purchased Glasshayes. Occasionally one part of a park was sold
to build a new house, Wilverley in Foxlease Park being the obvious example.1
The majority of the new houses were built on the outlying estates of the old 1 Bowden-‐Smith, ‘Lyndhurst’, 5.
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houses: the Brookley parts of the Brockenhurst estate, the Battramsley estate,
the Bisterne Closes part of the Burley estate, and the wooded areas of the
Beaulieu estate, although some houses seem to have been built on odd pieces of
freehold, including some incroachments on the Forest and enfranchised
copyholds in Lyndhurst. No doubt, had there been no restriction on the sale of
crown land, the Treasury would have sold more of the Forest for development;
instead they were restricted to exploiting what they could through the sale of
building leases, mostly on the sites of former keepers’ lodges.
Facilities and style Facilities offered differ according to the ‘age’ of the house. As can be seen in
Table D.2 fewer ‘old’ houses than average had libraries, studies, lounge halls,
billiards rooms, pasture, carriage drives or any garden facilities; more of them
had parkland, farmeries, paddocks, lakes, and woodland walks. ‘Enlarged’
houses, on the other hand were more likely than the average to have many of
these facilities (outdoor staff accommodation and lounge hall being the
exceptions). More new houses than average had lounge halls, outbuildings,
greenhouses, tennis, and, perhaps surprisingly, carriage drives.
Among the newer houses the architectural styles distinctly point to the
builders’ tastes for romance and rusticity, with a predominance of half-‐timbering
mirroring the popularity of ‘well-‐timbered grounds’ as well as, of course, the
proximity of the wooded parts of the local landscape. On the other hand the
builders wanted all modern conveniences, even if this meant providing their own
electricity generation plants and boring their own artesian wells. These were
generally not the glossy homes of social millionaires but the romantic hideaways
and second homes of people with a huge variety of interests, from writers and
artists to sportsmen and ‘automobilistes’.
Residents Over a quarter of the houses (38) were occupied by a single family over the
period. A further 24 houses saw only one change of family, 18 were home to
three families, 25 housed four or five, the remainder (23) changed hands six or
seven times. The continuity of families is most striking in the pre-‐1860 houses,
11 of which were occupied by a single family for the entire 60 years. There are
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also instances of new houses built for a single individual or couple and occupied
by them or other members of their family until at least 1923. Continuity can
often be explained by the longevity of one or two persons in the same family.
Nevertheless, in other older houses, a high turnover was seen, and even
houses built or converted later could change hands many times. Frequent change
can sometimes be explained by leasing. Five of the six crown lodges saw a high
turnover, only Rhinefield staying in the hands of one lessee. The Ladycross Lodge
lease changed hands at least seven times between 1873 and 1926. Bramble Hill,
Burley and Whitley Ridge saw a succession of lessees and Malwood was let to
tenants after Harcourt’s death. The same pattern was seen in other crown
property. Lyndhurst was a prime location for houses that saw a succession of
different families, many of them tenants, and not all of these houses were old:
Birds Nest, Stydd House and even The Cedars, built in 1898, all saw considerable
turnover. Apple Tree Court was built in 1919 but sold within three years.
The data shows that few people associated with these houses were born
in the area, but some who appear to have moved here would already have had
family connections here. There were however, many genuine newcomers.
Regardless of birthplace, 60 per cent of the country house residents died in the
New Forest, and others died not far away, perhaps in hospitals or in the homes of
younger relatives. Typically a couple would move in to a new house, and after the
husband’s death, his widow would stay on. But they did not all come to retire:
some raised families and then moved on, others stayed after the family had gone.
It was a mixed market, with a bias towards retirement.
The research shows conclusively that the majority of people associated
with these houses came from the traditional landed elite. The aristocracy and
upper gentry supplied the army and navy with its officers, and its income was
still heavily derived from land or, increasingly, investments. Those involved in
the arts often depended on ‘family money’ or their ‘own means’ although
sometimes they also had other occupations. All these people together account for
slightly over half of those whose backgrounds can be determined; over half of
them were officers. Even if some of them only served for a short time,
particularly in the years around the Great War, this still means that the retired
admiral or general of myth was indeed a reality.
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Nevertheless the Forest was not the sole preserve of the old ruling class. A
quarter of those whose backgrounds are known were members of the
professions, with lawyers predominating. The final quarter can be described as
being involved in industry, trade, or commerce, approximately a third being from
a more industrial background. Given that the New Forest is far from any centres
of industrial activity, this is remarkable. Indeed, only two families appear to have
simply made the move across Southampton Water from the nearest city to the
Forest, and one of them was a surveyor. Most of the industrialists and others
involved in commercial activity were from much further away. Just over 5 per
cent had some background in the Empire, whether they were trying to make
their fortune through plantations, mining, or trade, or as colonial administrators.
Specific data has been collected on the wealth at death, as reflected in
probate figures, of less than 10 per cent of the people whose backgrounds we
know something of (only 32 out of 348: see Table F.5). It varies considerably,
from the £2519 left by Captain Augustus Knapton-‐Knapton in 1922, to the
£1,186,845 (net personalty £1,086,004) left by George Fenwick in 1913.
Knapton-‐Knapton is perhaps a classic example of old family money running out:
he had inherited both Boldre Hill and Rope Hill from his grandfather, Admiral
Brine, but had changed his name to Knapton as the last surviving relative of the
Knapton family who had held the manors of Brockenhurst, Buckland, and
Royden; Fenwick on the other hand is the epitome of a commercial-‐industrialist
from the North who came here to retire. Son of a Northumberland banker, he
owned the Fenwick brewery in Chester-‐le-‐Street, which he sold in 1896, at the
age of 74, and came to Lyndhurst to build Allum Green House.
Did people’s background relate to the size of houses, number of rooms, or
acreage of land? Table F.3 shows just two parameters analysed according to
known backgrounds. It appears that about a fifth had houses with a large
number of rooms: more lawyers, farmers, naval officers and people ‘living on
funds’ appear to have lived in houses with a large number of rooms than those in
other categories, and fewer members of the aristocracy. With bathrooms, again
about a fifth had a large number, but apart from lawyers, the categories are
different. Peers and those with an industrial background were particularly fond
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of bathrooms, and so were army officers. Naval officers, those living on funds or
involved in ‘arts and letters’ had to put up with fewer sanitary facilities.
A similar analysis has been done for three other facilities: billiards rooms,
tennis lawns or courts and glasshouses. These were chosen because they may
have been indicators of conspicuous consumption. Table F.4 shows that about a
fifth of all residents had a billiards room, but these were more popular with
naval officers, landed proprietors and those from industry, rather less so among
farmers, artists, and fund-‐holders. With tennis, the results are more polarised: a
quarter of the total had facilities for tennis, but officers, particularly from the
navy were especially keen, as were land-‐owners and those from the publishing
industry (though note that the numbers here are very small). Interestingly, those
with a colonial background were also more likely than average to have tennis
lawns or courts. The figures for glasshouses are more evenly spread: farmers and
publishers more likely than average to have them, artists much less so (but all
these numbers are low).
A country house or a house in the country? Not all of the houses are as large, or as whimsical, as Bramble Hill, Malwood or
Rhinefield House, but collectively they tell a story. The story is of aspiration on
the part of successful people from a broad range of backgrounds towards a
country-‐house lifestyle. By the eve of the Great War, the New Forest contained
both country houses and houses in the country. The latter had essentially come
to predominate, especially when the demand for new property – which appears
to have been considerable – encouraged the sale of one-‐ or two-‐acre building
plots in both Lyndhurst and the smaller villages. The attractions of the area
included the ‘charm’, ‘seclusion’ and ‘beauty’ of the neighbourhood, as ‘healthy’
as it was ‘picturesque’, the panoramic views, the sandy or gravelly soils, and the
‘temperate climate’. They also stress the opportunities for activities such as
hunting – though not the very best hunting country, it was available ‘five days a
week’, and the season lasted a whole month longer than it did elsewhere –
shooting and, in the south and south-‐east, wild-‐fowling and yachting. There were
golf courses in the north and the south, and many houses had their own tennis
courts and other facilities for enjoying the outdoor life.
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All this may be seen to support the views of Martin Wiener, that the
countryside held a fascination for the British, with their sentimental attachment
to all things rural, their nostalgia for a lost world of feudalism and rusticity.2
Here in the New Forest, they could buy or rent a rural idyll of their own, without
having to leave Southern England for the North or the Celtic fringes. Indeed,
some of them even came from the industrial North itself to settle here. But this is
a very different experience from what F. M. L. Thompson and W. D. Rubinstein
have considered, with their emphasis on the broad acres invested in by
millionaires. Those coming to live in the New Forest were not expanding their
power-‐base or making a bid for power: the need for tenants to support oneself –
whether militarily, politically, or financially – were well and truly over. What we
find here complements the conclusions of Sheeran, who discovered a tendency
among his West Yorkshiremen to build smaller houses of recognisably domestic
proportions, in which they could relax, entertain, and garden. Unlike
Hertfordshire, which was close enough to London for men to travel to business
from it, the New Forest, like the Lake District or the East and North Ridings of
Yorkshire, was a pleasure ground where nature could provide a spiritual charge
to the jaded urbanite. Here one had the choice of seclusion or sociability, the
peace of one’s own garden or the thrill of the chase with the Deerhounds or the
Buckhounds in the open Forest. One could live on the produce of the kitchen
garden or, if very wealthy, have a model farm with one’s own herd of cows. Some
invested large sums of money in building and improving property; others hedged
their bets by renting. Many who came here died here, and it is easy to identify
retirement moves.
The heterogeneity of the inhabitants, not only retired generals and
admirals, but those from a wide variety of industrial backgrounds, together with
those from both domestic and overseas trade and commerce, and a diversity of
professionals, defies easy characterisation but suggests that what we see here
are the upper middle classes at play in their ‘houses in the country’ in a largely
unrecognised colonisation of the countryside by the town. Many of the houses
that were built around the turn of the century are still in use as luxury homes,
2 Wiener, English culture, 66.
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and the presence of 4x4s and estate cars today suggests that the attractiveness of
the New Forest has not altered over the past century.
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Appendix A. Gazetteer This appendix provides a gazetteer of the houses with brief histories. The
Date column indicates when the house was built (if new) or enlarged from a
small house or cottages; Details indicates whether the house was ‘new’, ‘old’
or ‘enlarged’, together with salient details of the most prominent owners;
Later history indicates the fate of the house after the end of the study
period; and Notes and sources gives further information and references for
all columns. References are not given to the censuses (1851, 1861, 1871,
1881, 1891, 1901, and 1911), or to the trade directories (1859, 1867, 1871,
1875, 1878, 1885, 1889, 1895, 1898, 1899, 1903, 1907, 1915. 1920, and
1923).
Dates of birth and death are given in parentheses after the person’s
name; dates of occupation or other association with the house are (unless
known exactly) given thus: ‘the home of Lieutenant F. G. Innes Lillingston
1880-‐91’. In this example, there is evidence that Lillingston was there in 1880
and in 1891, but his period of residence may have started earlier and ended
later.
Property Date Details Later history Notes and sources
Abbey Spring, Beaulieu
c.1906 New House built by John Edmund Unett Phillipson Turner-‐Turner, sportsman and big game hunter, the author of Three years’ hunting and trapping in America and the great north-‐west (1888), on land leased from the Beaulieu estate.
For sale by Turner-‐Turner in 1922; still residential.
Turner-‐Turner inherited his money from his grandfather, who made it from making ‘boot blacking’, Bowden-‐Smith, ‘Lyndhurst’, 38; Coles, Messuages and mansions, p. 11; Widnell, Beaulieu record, p. 375.
Allum Green House, Lyndhurst
c.1885 New house on the site of a cottage, built for banker and brewery-‐owner, George John Fenwick, who also owned Crag Head, Bournemouth.
Requisitioned in 1940, bombed and severely damaged.
The Times, 21 Aug. 1913; Babey and Roberts, Lyndhurst, p. 76.
Annesley, Bank, Lyndhurst
1883 New house incorporating older cottages, built for John Maxwell, publisher, and his wife Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835-‐1915), novelist. Also known as Annesley House and Annesley Bank.
Divided into several residences.
Bowden-‐Smith, ‘Lyndhurst’, 32.
Apple Tree Court, Lyndhurst
1919 New house built on the former Glasshayes estate, by George Herbert Kitchin, architect, for Edward Penton, of Messrs. E. Penton & Son, Leather Merchants, supplier of boots to the army in the Great War. Penton had sold it by 1922 to Herbert Knight, architect of many buildings in the City of
Since 1948, HQ of the New Forest District Council.
Campion, Recent history, 34-‐36.
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Property Date Details Later history Notes and sources
London. Bartley Close 18th to
early 19th century
Originally a farm adjacent to Bartley Manor, this ‘old-‐fashioned house and 15 acres’ was the residence, 1901-‐1920, of Dudley Henry Eden Stanhope, the 9th Earl Harrington (1859-‐1928). George W.P. Swinburne bought it in 1920.
For sale in 1956. The National Heritage List for England [list.english-‐heritage.org.uk, accessed 7 June 2011]; The Times, 31 May 1920, 25 July 1956.
Bartley Lodge Early 19th century with late 19th-‐century additions
Owned by Major Edward Gilbert (1784-‐1868) of the South Hants Militia from 1828 to his death, this ‘excellent Family House’ was at times ‘to let’. It was for sale in 1872; occupied by Clement Dale JP 1874-‐8; for sale again in 1879; and the home of Lieutenant F. G. Innes Lillingston 1880-‐91. At this time the house was extended to accommodate Lillingston’s growing family. In 1891 it was let for six months to Monsieur Auguste Pellerin, the owner of a new margarine factory being built in Northam, before being sold to Major Francis Bertram Dalrymple (1851-‐1932) of the Royal Artillery. He spent his last four decades there.
For sale in 1930 and 1935 as ‘the cheapest estate in Hampshire … only £5,950’, it has been a hotel since at least the 1980s.
The National Heritage List for England [list.english-‐heritage.org.uk, accessed 7 June 2011]; Jackson’s Oxford Journal, 24 May 1828; Morning Post, 11 Mar 1830; The Times, 27 Mar. 1830, 9 May 1844, 3 May 1879; Pall Mall Gazette, 21 Aug. 1874. There was a retired Judge from Madras (1806-‐1890) called Clement Dale but there is no evidence to connect him with the house (The Times, 26 Nov. 1890). The Standard, 9 Aug. 1880; Hampshire Advertiser, 28 Mar 1891, 2 May 1891, 14 Nov 1891, 5 Dec. 1891; The Times, 8 Dec. 1932; HRO 159M88/75.
Bartley Manor House
Late 18th century, with early and late 19th-‐century extensions.
This house had a number of owners in the second half of the nineteenth century, including Edward Douglas, son of the Earl of Morton (owner of huge estates in Scotland), who in 1858 ‘purchased [this] small estate … on the borders of the New Forest, where he intends shortly to reside’, and Lord Edward Spencer-‐Churchill. From 1884 it was the property of Captain Reginald Paynter Maitland (1851-‐1926) of the Royal Artillery, who passed it on to his son, Lieutenant-‐Colonel Reginald Charles Frederick (1882-‐1939).
For sale in 1939. The National Heritage List for England [list.english-‐heritage.org.uk, accessed 7 June 2011]; Hampshire Advertiser & Salisbury Guardian, 21 Aug. 1858 (though it may have got his name wrong as there is no Edward Douglas in The Douglas Archives [www.douglashistory.co.uk/history/Biogs/ biog19thc.htm, accessed 20 July 2012]), Hampshire Advertiser, 25 Mar. 1876, 29 Nov. 1884; ‘MAITLAND, Lt-‐Col Reginald Charles Frederick’, Who Was Who [www.ukwhoswho.com/view/ article/oupww/whowaswho/U213489, accessed 20 July 2012]; The Times, 27 July 1939.
Battramsley House, Boldre
1813 Old house, which, by 1859, from the evidence of the directories, appears to have superseded Battramsley Close as the main residence on the Battramsley estate. Edward David Sweet (1821-‐1901), landed proprietor and New Zealand colonist, lived there 1869-‐1901, followed by the Rev. Frederick John Jervis-‐Smith (1848-‐1911), university lecturer in mechanics at Trinity College, Oxford, 1907-‐1911. Major the Hon. Hugo Baring (1876-‐1949), a member of the banking family, lived there 1919-‐1923.
Until 1967, owned by the Hon. Mrs McGarel Groves, step-‐daughter of Mrs Baring.
W. F. Perkins, Boldre: the parish, the church and the inhabitants (4th edn, 1935), p. 70: ‘Examination of the title discloses that [Battramsley Close] formed part of a much larger estate probably including what is now the Boldre Grange estate … and Battramsley House; and either Battramsley Close or possibly Battramsley House was a Rectory and Parsonage … I think that Battramsley House is an older house than the present Vicarage at Vicars Hill’. The Times, 23 Jan. 1931, 1 Feb. 1967.
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Property Date Details Later history Notes and sources
Beechwood House, Bartley
Early nineteenth century, with mid-‐19th century extension
One of many properties owned by the Heathcote family. Selina, Dowager Lady Heathcote (1815-‐1901), widow of Sir William Heathcote, lived there for the last ten years of her life (despite the terms of his will, which allowed her to reside at Hursley Park) followed by Colonel Charles George Heathcote, JP (1844-‐1924), for the last 20 years of his, despite an attempt to sell it in 1919.
Estate broken up in 1937; the house is now divided into flats.
The National Heritage List for England [list.english-‐heritage.org.uk, accessed 7 June 2011]; The Times, 29 Oct. 1881; HRO 159M88/103; Coles, Messuages and mansions, p. 38.
Bench House, Lyndhurst
c.1856-‐1866
Cottage extended by Mr Dent, a Plymouth Brethren preacher; later improved by Edward Penton, junior.
Bowden-‐Smith, ‘Lyndhurst’, 19.
Birds Nest, Lyndhurst
c.1870 New house built by Miss Ellen Dickson (‘Dolores’, 1819-‐78, song writer and composer), and after her death purchased by the crown (because it was on a small piece of land in between areas of crown land) and let to various tenants.
Now a private club.
Bowden-‐Smith, ‘Lyndhurst’, 10; Babey and Roberts, Lyndhurst, p. 63; Ordnance Survey, County Series 1:10560 (1st Edn, 1871); F 10/81, ‘Sketch map showing situation of “Bird’s Nest”’.
Black Knoll, Brockenhurst
1895 New house, designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield for Henry Bowden-‐Smith (1835-‐1925), son of Nathaniel and nephew of Richard and Georgina: ‘Henry went to Ceylon with William where they bought land which they called The New Forest, for coffee plantations, but it was a failure’.
Still residential. Blomfield (1856-‐42) was the architect of the Prime Minister’s country house, Chequers, HCC, Hampshire treasures, V, The New Forest (1981); Bowden-‐Smith, Lyndhurst, 11.
Blackwater House, Minstead
1889 New house built for Francis Compton (1824-‐1915), a retired barrister in 1891. Francis, who never married, was the sixth son of Henry Combe Compton, Lord of the Manor of Minstead. He was MP for South Hampshire, JP for Hampshire and Senior Fellow of All Souls, Oxford, where he was ‘a constant and much-‐beloved resident during a portion of every term for nearly 70 years’. The house was owned by his nephew, Henry Francis Compton, until his death in 1943.
Divided, in 1972, into three residences.
The Times, 3 Apr. 1880, 25 Oct. 1915; ‘COMPTON, Henry Francis’, Who Was Who [www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U224032, accessed 21 July 2012]; The Times, 5 May 1972.
Boldre Bridge House
1895 New house built in 1895 for Walter Frank Perkins (1865-‐1946), surveyor, MP for the New Forest 1910-‐22, author of Boldre: the parish, the church and the inhabitants, and benefactor of the Perkins Agricultural Library at the University of Southampton.
Altered in 1969, the house was put up for sale by Philip Perkins in 1975 for £250,000.
Coles, Messuages and mansions, p. 42.
Boldre Grange 1872-‐74 New house built by Norman Shaw for John Lane Shrubb, nephew of the Rev. Henry Shrubb, and brother of Charles Shrubb of Merrist Hill near Guildford. After Shrubb’s death in 1884, his widow Sibilla lived there until her death in
Still residential. Pevsner and Lloyd, Hampshire, 113-‐4; Coles, Messuages and mansions, p. 43 says that it was illustrated in Building News (1874); C. Bower, ‘The Shrubb family and their connections with Boldre’, in The Bower & Collier Family History and New
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Property Date Details Later history Notes and sources
1912. The house was sold after the death of their son John in 1918. For sale again ‘at a very low reserve’ in 1921, after ‘large sums of money [had] recently been expended’.
Milton Talking Newspaper [www.cmbower.co.uk/Articles/OtherProjects/ CallingBook/ShrubbFamily/FamilyHistory.html], accessed 12 June 2012; HRO 159M88/144.
Boldre Hill 1833 ‘Built on the site of an old cottage by Admiral Brine with his share of the prize money’. Brine’s grandson changed his name to Knapton in 1860, as the only surviving relative of the family that had held the manor of Brockenhurst before the Morants (when Brockenhurst House was called Watcomb House). In 1918 it was sold to William Meischke-‐Smith (1869-‐1931), a ‘world-‐wide explorer’ and ‘an industrious and scientific agriculturist’ who provided ‘additional model cottages on the estate, entirely from his own designs’.
Still residential. Perkins, Boldre, 71; The Times, 9 Nov. 1937; Campion, Recent history, 46-‐7.
Bramble Hill Lodge, Bramshaw
1856 A master keeper’s lodge let on a 21-‐year lease to a series of lessees, notably Andrew Hamilton, surgeon, 1857-‐9, St Leger Richard Glyn (1825-‐70), younger son of the banker George Glyn, first Baron Wolverton, Sir William Mather (1838-‐1920), founder of the Manchester engineering firm, Mather and Platt, and Sir Hugh Murray (1862-‐1941), Forestry Commissioner, 1924-‐34.
For sale in 1946. A hotel since at least 1957.
HRO 114M90/3; F 10/383, undated typescript; ‘Glyn, George Carr, first Baron Wolverton (1797–1873)’, DNB, 2004 [www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/41283, accessed 12 Aug. 2012].The Times, 7 June 1957; ‘Mather, Sir William (1838–1920)’, DNB [www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/45649, accessed 12 Aug. 2011]; ‘MURRAY, Sir Hugh’, Who Was Who, [www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U229634, accessed 31 July 2012].
Bramshaw Lodge
1875 House built on glebe land for Mrs Laura Bradburne (1809-‐85), widow of Frederick Angelo Bradburne (1794-‐1869) of Lyburn House, Nomansland and her daughter Laura Sophia Bradburne (1842-‐1923). Mrs Bradburne was born in St Vincent, which suggests a West Indies connection for this family.
Still residential.
Broadlands Gate, Brockenhurst
1892 New house, in Arts and Crafts style, occupied from at least 1911 to 1923 by Rev. Julian Edward Chichester Patterson (1852-‐1939). This house is one of a group built in the 1890s-‐1910s on a field opposite Armstrong Farm in North Weirs. While Broadlands Gate has a wall plaque announcing its date as 1892, the 1897 map shows that the house opposite, Harting, was under construction. By 1909 there were five, but Harting, for example, only had six bedrooms and Broadlands Gate has a slightly larger footprint.
Extended at some time between 1909 and 1964. Now a Bed and Breakfast.
The 1901 census has two entries for ‘Broadlands’, one of which may be Broadlands Gate: Arthur Knatchbull Connell (1851-‐1914), who was living at The Orchard in 1903; and William Pelham Richardson (1844-‐1908), retired civil engineer with the Indian Public Works Department; Patterson may have retired to Brockenhurst: The Times, 2 July 1891 mentions his preferment as rector of Pitchford, Shrewsbury; he was aged 59 in the 1911 census and died in 1939 at another house in Brockenhurst, Overbrook (The Times, 9 May 1939); Broadlands
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Property Date Details Later history Notes and sources
Gate [www.broadlandsgate.co.uk/, accessed 15 Aug. 2011]
Brockenhurst House
1769, remodelled in the 1860s-‐’70s
Eighteenth-‐century house remodelled in the French chateau style by Thomas Henry Wyatt (1807-‐80) for John Morant (1825-‐99), who succeeded his father as Lord of the Manor of Brockenhurst in 1857. Morant also made improvements to the parkland and gardens, renowned before the Great War.
The ‘final stage in [the] reorganization of the … estate’ was in 1959, after which the new owners demolished the old house.
Coles, Messuages and mansions, p. 46; Pinnell, Country house history, 171-‐82; remodelling could be afforded in spite of falling revenues from West Indian sugar plantations, which were down from £20,000 in the late eighteenth century to £10,000 by 1880, The National Heritage List for England [list.english-‐heritage.org.uk], accessed 7 June 2011; The Times, 14 Dec. 1959.
Brockenhurst Lodge
17th century
Old house that belonged to the Bowden-‐Smith family from 1779 until it was demolished in 1886 and replaced with Careys.
Bowden-‐Smith, Lyndhurst, 34-‐5.
Brooklands, Lyndhurst
1869 New house built on the site of the Red House, for Matthias Buckworth Wilks ‘who lived there and sometimes let it’; purchased by (Col.) William Martin Powell, c.1885.
Bowden-‐Smith, ‘Lyndhurst’, 2.
Brookley House, Brockenhurst
The old Brookley manor house, occupied 1859-‐1885 by Richard Rosdew Mudge (1796-‐1885), who describes himself as ‘Gentleman on ye superannuation of Woods and Forest’.
Demolished 1885x1891.
Burley Beacon 1898 Old house rebuilt or enlarged 1871-‐97, and enlarged again before 1909. William Morris Fletcher JP is listed in directories 1898-‐1915, although in 1911 Major Norman Chichester Perkins (1861-‐1939) of the Indian Staff Corps (retired) was in residence, perhaps a tenant. By 1923, Lt-‐Col Harry Bland Strang lived there.
For sale in 1950 and 1952.
The Times, 1 Dec. 1939; HRO 159M88/225.
Burley Grange 1859 Old house originally known as Burley Cottage: this is the house Mrs Bowden-‐Smith referred to when she said ‘we were settled in Vernalls in 1856, having left Burley Cottage’. It was the ‘retired woodland seat’ of Mrs Harriet Roberts, ‘the poetess’ 1848-‐1864. After several other owners, in c.1912, it was sold to Owen Talbot Price (see New Park, Brockenhurst).
Sold in 1931, 1940 and 1944.
Bowden-‐Smith, ‘Lyndhurst’, p. 1; Hardcastle, Records of Burley, pp. 190-‐1: Hardcastle’s information contradicts that of Bowden-‐Smith, who, as a former occupant of the house and generally accurate, we can take to be correct. It is not clear where Hardcastle obtained the following information: ‘Mrs Roberts was a widow with peculiar tastes, who altered and enlarged the house. She was remarkable for her cats, 20 or 30 of which lived in a special room in the new wing, and for whose benefit a large low window was fitted’.
Burley Hill c.1897 New house, second home 1898-‐1927 of Mrs Blanche Mary Clough (d. 1903, widow of Arthur Hugh Clough the poet)
For sale 1945, 1953.
Clough, Blanche Athena (1861–1960), DNB [www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/48434], accessed 18 July
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and her daughter, Miss Blanche Athena Clough (1861-‐1960), Principal of Newnham College Cambridge, 1920-‐1923.
2012; HRO 159M88/226.
Burley Lodge 1871x1897 Until 1809 part of the Bailiwick of Burley and in the possession of the Dukes of Bolton, ‘who for nearly 130 years exercised a sort of “imperium in imperio” in the Forest difficult to understand or explain’. The Crown then bought the interest of the grant from the Duchess and subsequently used it as a residence for forestry officials. Some of the land was ploughed up in ‘an attempt at high farming’ in the ‘utilitarian days’ of 1851. Later let to tenants on an ‘improving lease’. The Rev. the Hon Arthur Charles Baillie-‐Hamilton (1838-‐1910, youngest son of the 10th Earl of Haddington) was in residence from 1898 (possibly from 1894 when he retired as inspector of schools in the Diocese of Norwich) until his death. His daughter stayed on but in 1923 Vernon Francis Lees was living there.
To let by the Forestry Commissioners in 1934. Now a hotel.
Lascelles, 35 years, pp. 121, 123; The Times, 10 Aug. 1881, 4 July 1883, 17 May 1910. 1 June 1934. Although there are no files on Burley Lodge in F 10, it appears that some building work was done between 1871 and 1897.
Burley Manor 1852 Manor house rebuilt 1852 by Colonel William Clement Drake Esdaile (1820-‐99). Between 1891 and 1895 he moved to Park Cottage and was selling off plots of land in Bisterne Close. Ellis Cunliffe Lister Lister-‐Kay was living there 1895-‐1903; in 1907, Stanley Victor Coote (1863-‐1925), son of an Admiral Coote; and, from 1915 to his death, Colonel Frank Willan (1846-‐1931).
For sale, 1933 and 1949; now a hotel.
Hardcastle, Records of Burley, pp. 51, 53; Esdaile’s ‘own means’ are obscure (there was an Esdaile banking family but they went bankrupt in 1837 (DNB); HRO 15M84/SP11, Sales particulars of a freehold property formerly part of the Burley Manor Estate at Burley near Ringwood, to be sold by auction, 1895; Lister-‐Kay (b. 1848 in Addingham, Yorkshire) was probably the grandson of Ellis Cunliffe (1774-‐1853), of the wealthy mill-‐owning family and MP for Bradford (Lister and Kay were, respectively, the names of his first and second wives’ families), L. G. Pine, The New Extinct Peerage 1884-‐1971: Containing Extinct, Abeyant, Dormant and Suspended Peerages With Genealogies and Arms (London, 1972), 192.; ‘WILLAN, Colonel Frank’, Who Was Who [www.ukwhoswho.com /view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U219182, accessed 19 July 2012]; HRO 159M88/227.
Burnford House, Bramshaw
Early 19th century?
House occupied by two successive MFHs of the New Forest Hunt in the 1830s-‐40s. William Cunningham Fairley (1834-‐1890) lived there in his retirement from Anderson, Fairley and Gray, East India Brokers. Mansfield Smith-‐Cumming (1859-‐1923), intelligence officer in the RN, lived there
Still residential; rebuilt in 1997.
Graham, Fox-‐hunting recollections, 50-‐1; The Times, 6 Jan. 1885; ‘Cumming, Sir Mansfield George Smith (1859–1923)’, DNB [www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/37331, accessed 21 July 2012]. Born Mansfield George Smith, he married, in 1889, the heiress of the Scottish Cumming of Logie family. By 1897 its
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1895-‐99, while he was in charge of building the Southampton boom defences.
grounds had been extended further back and the house itself has been extended. The map now clearly shows the covered hallway connecting the house with a large door opening right onto the road, which was a feature until the original house was demolished. In the reconstruction the door was preserved, although it is no longer connected with the house. Sturgess, Bramshaw, pp. 30-‐1 shows the house and door before 1997.
Cadlands or Cadland House
18th century
The seat of the Drummonds, 1773-‐1953. Built by Robert Drummond (1729-‐1804), partner in the famous banking house of Drummonds, and enlarged and remodeled, 1837-‐8, for Andrew Robert Drummond, by Jeffry Wyatville. It was for sale in 1924 ‘a unique opportunity for development on an extensive scale in connexion with shipping, dock construction, or any large industry requiring the best shipping facilities’.
Demolished in 1953 to make way for the Esso Oil Refinery.
D. Linstrum, Sir Jeffry Wyatville: architect to the king (1972), p. 137. The Drummonds still own the Manor of Cadland; they renamed their cottage orné to the south, Cadland House. ‘Cadland House’, in Loyd & Townsend Rose (luxury accommodation) at www.ltr.co.uk/ltr-‐collection/cadland-‐house/ [accessed 10 July 2012]; The Times, 2 Dec. 1924.
Camp Hill, Emery Down, Lyndhurst
c.1880-‐1885
New house built for Maj. William Charles Ward-‐Jackson (1835-‐1903). The Ward-‐Jacksons were lodgers at Hill House in 1881; Mrs Ward-‐Jackson lived at Camp Hill until her death in 1917 and passed it on to their son William Ralph (1868-‐1945).
The Times, 30 Sept. 1903, 14 Sept. 1917.
Campden House, Burley
c.1909-‐11 New house occupied by William Harold Leech in 1910-‐11, by Thomas George Wills Sandford (1870-‐1948) in 1915-‐20, and by Arthur Wilson Napier (1871-‐1955) in 1923.
For sale in 1928 and 1929.
HRO 159M88/242.
Canterton Manor, Bramshaw
1887 New house built on the Canterton estate after its sale by the marquis of Winchester, for John Jeffreys (1846-‐1922), JP. The new house was built on a different site from the old manor house. His widow Florence lived in the house until her death in 1942.
For sale, 1946, 1949, 1950.
F 10/271, Sale particulars for The Canterton Estate in the New Forest Hants (First Edition); NFRL N.716 MIN, Canterton Estate Catalogue, 22 July 1887; HRO 159M88/246; Coles, Messuages and mansions, p. 63.
Careys, Brockenhurst
1886 New house built for the Rev. Hermann Bowden-‐Smith, Rural Dean of Lyndhurst and son of Nathaniel and nephew of Richard and Georgina: ‘On the death of their father in 1886, the old house was pulled down to our great regret, and [he] has built a fine new house. The old house was near the road and very quaint for in one of the attics there was a hiding place in the floor large enough to conceal a man’.
Hotel from 1934; now Careys Manor Spa.
Bowden-‐Smith, Lyndhurst, 34-‐5. In 1911 he was. According to Careys Manor Blog [careysmanorblog.wordpress.com/, accessed 1 Nov. 2011], ‘Herman Bowden-‐Smith … sold [the house] in 1934 before he went to live in Switzerland. A Dutchman called Mr Builderbeck bought the house and turned it into a country house Hotel’.
Castle Malwood,
1892 House thought to have been built in 1802, purchased in 1892, by Charles Hill (1823-‐94), ‘a well-‐known coffee-‐
A Dr Barnardo’s home for refugee
Hampshire Advertiser, 19 Mar. 1892; 21 May 1892; 24 Mar. 1894; 5 May 1894; 29 Apr. 1899; The Times, 16 Nov. 1948.
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Minstead planter of Ceylon’, for £10,000. Hill carried out ‘extensive improvements’, but died two years later. The house was then let, and around 1910 was purchased by Daniel Hanbury (1877-‐1948), an engineer and one of the directors of the pharmaceutical company, Allen and Hanbury. He too made many improvements, including installing electricity and creating the cricket ground and tennis courts.
children during World War II; offices of the Southern Elecricity Board 1948-‐2001 and now the home of Retail Manager Solutions Ltd.
Daniel Hanbury was nephew of ‘Hanbury, Daniel (1825–1875)’, DNB, [www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/12179, accessed 18 Aug. 2011] and son of ‘Hanbury, Sir Thomas (1832–1907)’, DNB, 2004 [www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/54055, accessed 12 Aug. 2012]. ‘History of Castle Malwood’ [www.retail-‐manager.com/contact-‐us/castle-‐malwood, accessed 17 Aug. 2011].
Castle Top, Burley
c.1898 New house, also referred to as Castle Hill, built for Arthur Hugh Clough (1860-‐1943), ‘landowner’ and son of Arthur Hugh Clough the poet, 1898-‐1927.
For sale 1934. ‘Clough, Arthur Hugh (1819–1861)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/5711, accessed 12 Aug. 2012]; HRO 159M88/255.
Cedars, The, Lyndhurst
1898 New house built on part of the Glasshayes estate.
Coxhill Lodge, Boldre
1909-‐15 New house built for Lady Gertrude (1868-‐1937), daughter of the Earl of Sefton and wife (m. 1905) of Lt-‐Col. John Halkett Crawford, 32nd Lancers, Indian Army, who lived there until her death in 1937. The first Chief Commandant of the WRAF in 1918, she was also ‘well known for her skill as an amateur wood-‐turner and received the freedom of the Turner’s Company in 1907 … [They] further honoured her in 1915 by the award … in recognition of her eminent ability as a turner and of her patriotic efforts in supervising the manufacture of munitions. She gave … exhibitions of her work, which was distinguished by ingenuity in discovering new possibilities of the lathe and tools. In 1934 she received the freedom of the City of London’.
Still residential. For sale in 2011 and seems to have been rebuilt.
HRO 159M88/1315.
Craigellachie, Burley
c.1903 New house built for Lt-‐Gen. Seafield Falkland Murray Treasure Grant (1834-‐1910), Indian Staff Corps, who lived there from 1903; his widow staying until 1911; Brig.-‐Gen. Roger Henry Massie (1869-‐1927) lived there 1920-‐23.
Still residential. ‘GRANT, Lt-‐Gen. Seafield Falkland Murray Treasure’, Who Was Who [www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U186537, accessed 19 July 2012]; ‘MASSIE, Brig.-‐Gen. Roger Henry’, Who Was Who [www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U200029, accessed 19 July 2012].
Cuffnells, Lyndhurst
1784 ‘An exceedingly pretty park and nice house, [which] belonged to the Right Honorable Sir George Rose, who
a hotel; used by a searchlight
Bowden-‐Smith, ‘Lyndhurst’, 5; Babey and Roberts, Lyndhurst, p. 73.
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there received King George the Third in 1804’. Purchased by Jonathan Hargreaves in 1856 and passed on to his son Reginald, whose wife was Alice Liddell; occupied by the Hargreaves family until at least 1923.
battalion in World War II and then demolished.
Culverley, Brockenhurst
1897-‐1903 New house probably built for Montague Ellis (1865-‐1945), a solicitor in the firm of Pears, Ellis, Pears and Brandreth, possibly as a second home.
Extended after 1909; demolished and replaced in the 1990s by three houses; what may have been its lodge is still standing.
Ellis was living there from 1903 to at least 1923. There were only servants there on census night, 1911. Montague Ellis was one of the executors of Charles Henry Cosens, whose widow, Bessie, was living at Wayside, Brockenhurst in 1911, The Times, 6 Aug. 1903.
Dilamgerbendi Insula, Picket Post, near Burley
1839-‐1889 House occupied by the Rev. John Kershaw Craig, (1802-‐89), first Vicar of Burley who declined to live at the Vicarage built for him.
Demolished by Auberon Herbert who build the new Picket Post House.
Hampshire Advertiser, 12 Oct. 1889; Hardcastle, Records of Burley, pp. 132-‐3, explains the name as Romany for ‘Hammerman of the Devil’ with ‘Insula’ added because of the view of the Isle of Wight from the roof. It seems more likely that the appearance of the early Victorian house (illustrated in her book) recalled a Roman Insula. He described himself as ‘Rector of Burley’ in the 1881 census.
Dock House, The, Beaulieu
1911 ‘Mrs Stuart-‐Wortley built it before World War I and sold it almost immediately after the armistice. A few years later Palace Cottage was altered for her.’ In 1911, one indoor servant was there, and in 1923 the occupant was Ingo Simon, singer and archery enthusiast (1875-‐1964).
For sale in 1985, for £225,000.
Widnell, Beaulieu record, p. 456: was this Alice Stuart-‐Wortley (1862-‐1936), the daughter of John Everett Millais, who married Charles Beilby Stuart-‐Wortley, Baron Stuart of Wortley (1851-‐1926) and was the muse (‘Windflower’) of Edward Elgar? Elgar, Sir Edward William, baronet (1857–1934), DNB [www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/32988 ], accessed 17 July 2012; when he died in 164, Ingo Simon left £229,927 gross, £216,077 net (duty paid, £148,267), The Times, 18 Jan 1965; Coles, Messuages and mansions, p. 35.
Drokes, The, Beaulieu
c.1912-‐13 New house built for Colonel Dudley Acland Mills, Royal Engineers (1860-‐1938), who was living there 1923-‐6 but had moved before 1933 and died, like his wife before him, in London.
For sale in 1938, it was one of the ten houses in Beaulieu taken over by the ‘hush-‐hush’ troops during World War II.
Widnell, Beaulieu record, p. 108; The Times, 27 Jan. 1926, 26 Apr. 1926, 17 Jul. 1933, 20 July 1934. Mills was ‘known to his contemporaries as “Confucius,” … an authority on things Chinese and early maps, and a man of all-‐round culture and knowledge’; it was probably his ‘love of the sea’ that drew him to the site in Beaulieu ‘adjacent to a yacht anchorage’ (HRO 159M88/451) as it had ‘led him to volunteer for the newly formed submarine mining service; [which] as he later said …
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proved “non-‐medaliferous,” small wars passed it by’, The Times, 26 Feb. 1938.
Durham Lodge, Brockenhurst
c.1897 New house built on the north side of the North Weirs enclosure. For sale in 1909, Durham Lodge is described as having only ‘one acre’, but it had 16 rooms in the 1911 census, when a groom was in residence in a cottage. It had five different residents 1898-‐1923.
Renamed St Andrews between 1915 and 1923. Now two houses, The Hurdles and St Andrews.
The Times, 13 Feb. 1909.
Durmast Hill, Burley
1848 House possibly built for Lt. Sampson Edwards (1797-‐1878), who bought the land in 1848 and probably lived there until his death. Dr James Martin Kennedy (1850-‐1905) lived there 1900-‐1905, adding a ‘small windowed bay’; it was occupied 1907-‐1918 by Miss Eleanor Mary Baring (b. 1857), who had a garden designed by Gertrude Jekyll. It was sold in 1920, possibly to Mrs Lee, living there in 1923.
For sale 1950. Still residential; garden is open twice a year for the National Garden Scheme.
Hardcastle, Records of Burley, p. 188, but she has the date of Edwards’s death wrong. There is nothing to link Eleanor Baring with the Baring banking family: ‘The Baring Archive’ [www.baringarchive.org.uk/barings_people/baring_family_genealogy/, accessed 19 July 2012], but ‘Durmast House’ [www.durmasthouse.co.uk, accessed 19 July 2012] claims a connection.
Durns House, Thorns Beach, near Beaulieu
c.1900? New house with private coastline, possibly built for the Hon. Archibald Dudley Ryder, 2nd son of the 4th Earl of Harrowby (d. 1901), who married in 1898. He lived there from at least 1915 until his death in 1950. His wife, a keen gardener, lived there until her death in 1958.
Bought at auction by Dire Straits guitarist, John Illsley, in 1989.
Coles, Messuages and mansions, p. 71; The Times, 10 Feb. 1898, 29 Jan. 1901, 21 Jan. 1950, 1 Jan. 1959.
Elcombes, Lyndhurst
17th century; east wing added c.1870
Old house on the Northerwood estate, which ‘has been let to such a lot of people formerly that it is difficult to remember them all’; bought by Dr. Maskew and later the Rev. P. Sykes. In the DNB entry for Sykes’s daughter it is described as their family home.
Babey and Roberts, Lyndhurst, p. 8 suggest that the east wing was added to accommodate servants; Bowden-‐Smith, ‘Lyndhurst’, 12; ‘Sykes, Ella Constance (1863–1939)’, DNB [www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/73441, accessed 12 Aug. 2012].
Exbury House c.1920 Estate owned by the Mitfords during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and sold to Colonel John Forster in 1879. Lionel de Rothschild bought it in 1918, laid out the extensive gardens and rebuilt the house.
Still in the hands of the Rothschilds; gardens open to the public.
A. J. Holland and E. de Rothschild, Our Exbury : life in an English village in the 1920’s and early ‘30’s (1982), pp. 11-‐14, 19.
Forest Bank, Lyndhurst
1830s? Old house previously known as Ports. During the 1860s it was owned by Mrs Georgina Aide (1791-‐1875) and her son Hamilton (b. 1831), who ‘travelled a great deal, made pretty sketches and wrote many novels’; during the 1870s, by Dr George Nunn (1845-‐1891). During both ownerships, the house was let, in the 1870s to Dr Walter Cambell Blaker
Bowden-‐Smith, ‘Lyndhurst’, 9-‐10; The Standard, 13 July 1888. The directories have the Aides’ name as ‘Adie’, whereas census records, the death record and Bowden-‐Smith all have ‘Aide’.
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(1849-‐1922). Mrs Frances Sarah Chawner (1842-‐1925), widow of the Rev. C. H. Fox Chawner (1807-‐1888), lived there, 1895-‐1925.
Forest Lodge, Dibden
18th century?
An old house that appears to have been remodelled between 1897 and 1909, with the addition of a pheasantry. Occupied 1898-‐1903 by John Fleuret, the 1950 sale notice is headed ‘Re John B. Fleuret, deceased’.
For sale in 1950. It would be nice to think that this was John Beach Fleuret (b. 1869, living at Steyning, Sussex, in 1911), of Fleurets the licensed property brokers, founded in the 1820s by (his grandfather?) John Beach Fleuret. ‘Fleurets history’ [www.fleurets.com/about-‐fleurets/history.asp], accessed 12 July 2012.
Forest Lodge, Lyndhurst
1850s Old house, ‘inhabited by Taylor the Brewer’, followed by others. John Howard Goldfinch, returned from Australia lived there 1871-‐1899; in 1895 it was sold by the owner of Northerwood, Keppel Pulteney to Edward Kelly, who leased it back to the Pulteney family, and sold it again in 1907.
Coles, Messuages and mansions, 165; Bowden-‐Smith, ‘Lyndhurst’, 22. Keppel Pulteney’s mother Isabella lived there until she died in 1920 (Bowden-‐Smith, p. 12).
Fountain Court, Bramshaw
1916 New house built on the site of the house known as Bramshaw Hill for Sir George Thursby (1869-‐1941), third baronet Thursby (from 1920), whose father, the first baronet, had inherited wealth created by the Ormerod family through Lancashire coalmining.
Auctioned in 1949; the subject of an article in Country Life (1987); still residential.
Coles, Messuages and mansions, p. 86.
Foxlease, Lyndhurst
17th century; enlarged 1775
A house ‘of some antiquity … sold to Mr Stevenson for £23,000 in 1866 [and] … now in 1900 sold [for £20,000] … to Mr. Hahlo’ (Herman Barker Hahlo, 1874-‐1972, barrister, whose first wife was the daughter of a solicitor). After 1911, it was bought by ‘big game hunters’ Armar Dayrolles Saunderson and his wife Anne Archbold Saunderson.
Owned by the Girl Guides Association since 1922.
Babey and Roberts, Lyndhurst, p. 62; Bowden-‐Smith, ‘Lyndhurst’, 4. Barker-‐Hahlo (1873-‐1972) married the daughter of Sir Reginald Beauchamp who died in 1913 leaving an estate of £221,882 gross, with net personalty of £71,004, The Times, 20 June 1913. Saunderson (1872-‐1952) was Unionist MP for E. Tyrone; his wife, Anne, was the granddaughter of John Dustin Archbold, right-‐hand man of John D. Rockefeller at the Standard Oil Company, later President of SO of North America and benefactor of Syracuse University. Their marriage did not last and Foxlease was offered for auction in 1919; after their divorce in 1922 Anne presented it to the Girl Guides Association, to commemorate the marriage of Princess Mary, The Times, 1 Mar. 1922, ‘Archbold Family Collection’ at Syracuse University library.syr.edu/digital/guides/a/archbold_fam.htm [accessed 14 July 2012]; Stacy A. Cordery, ‘Anne Archbold, the Donor of Foxlease’, www.stacycordery.com/juliette-‐gordon-‐low/
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anne-‐archbold-‐the-‐donor-‐of-‐foxlease/ (2011) [accessed 14 July 2012].
Fritham House 1861 ‘Cottage’ at first rented and later purchased, and presumably extended, by William Morgan Benett, a Master in the High Court of Justice, who was still there in 1889. In 1890, he had retired to Lyme Regis and was letting this house. It was a preparatory school run by Frank Emerson Chapman, 1898-‐1907 and occupied by Hugh Howard Stafford Northcote, 1915-‐23.
For sale in 1985 with 12½ acres. Since then a nursing home.
Barbara Benett’s Annuary: New Forest extracts. I am grateful to Anthony Pasmore for providing me with a copy of this, and her daughter Barbara’s diary, typed up by their relative, Zoe Munby in the 1990s. Coles, Messuages and mansions, p. 87; The Times, 14 Feb. 1890; ‘Chapman, (Arthur) Percy Frank (1900–1961)’, DNB [www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/61924, accessed 12 Aug. 2012].
Fritham Lodge 1671 with 19th-‐century bays on each side
This house was in the hands of the Heathcote family from at least 1847 until the death of Mrs Jessie Heathcote in 1915. A Miss Henderson was in residence in 1923. The Heathcotes sometimes let the house, for example to Sir Reginald Graham, Bart (1835-‐1920), MFH of the New Forest Hounds, 1874-‐8.
Still residential. The National Heritage List for England [list.english-‐heritage.org.uk, accessed 7 June 2011]; Graham, Fox-‐hunting recollections, p. 71: ‘Up to 1876 I had resided in my bachelor days at Jessamine Cottage, Lyndhurst, but the 24th of July in that year was the commencement of a happy life for me in double harness. We moved that summer to Fritham Lodge, two or three miles north of Stony Cross, a charming spot on high ground, with views all over the Forest.’.
Frogmore House, Burley
To 1870s Old house, demolished by the 1870s. Demolished. HCC, Hampshire treasures, V, p. 57; Hardcastle, Records of Burley, p. 88. The house is not mentioned in any of the directories.
Gascoignes, Lyndhurst
1855 Old House, with a succession of residents; for sale in 1894. Hampshire Advertiser, 7 Apr. 1894.
Gilbury Hard, near Beaulieu
1908 Two cottages converted into a ‘picturesque [thatched] riverside home’ by ‘Mrs Hare [or Eyre]’.
Rebuilt in the 1970s.
Campion, Recent history, p. 93; Coles, p. 88. An article mentioning ‘Gilbury House’ describes it as ‘modern, but incorporate[ing] an older cottage’, The Times, 24 Nov. 1976
Glasshayes, Lyndhurst
1850s ‘[A] very curious house’ built on the site of a cottage by the Duc de Stacpole during the 1850s, improved by Charles Castleman, solicitor and principal director of the Southampton and Dorchester Railway, later chairman of the LSWR, in the 1860s, and owned by Col. Alexander Caldecleugh Macleay c.1875-‐1896. It was then sold to Mr Tilley, a speculator for ‘about £15,000’.
By the 1900s, the Grand Hotel; now Lyndhurst Park Hotel.
Bowden-‐Smith, ‘Lyndhurst’, 15; F 10/146, Lascelles to E. Stafford Howard, 7 Apr. 1896.
Goldenhayes, Woodlands
1895 New house possibly built for John Henry Howard (1848-‐1902) and his wife Sarah Constance (1853-‐1929), who lived there until 1920. Richard Westlake lived there 1923-‐6. In 1924 it was for sale, described as ‘a modernized house
Still residential. The Times, 9 June 1924; HRO 159M88/614.
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and over 40 acres’ and in 1928, as ‘one of the most delightful small estates in the heart of the New Forest’.
Harford House, near Beaulieu
c.1904-‐6 New house. Antony Edmund Gibbs was living there in 1907. In 1911 it was occupied by Trevor Wright, a trout breeder and in 1923 by Sir Julian Walter Orde, automobile enthusiast, who may have chosen the house for its proximity to Lord Montagu’s residence.
Now Hartford House.
Possibly built for Antony Gibbs (1842-‐1907) of the family associated with Antony Gibbs and Sons Ltd, merchants and foreign bankers, but he is known to have lived at Tyntesfield and also to have had agricultural and sporting estates near Exeter (The Times, 17 June 1907). Nevertheless, this house could have been acquired or built as another home. The company archives are at the London Metropolitan Archives. Sir Julian Orde (1861-‐1929) was a founder member of the Royal Automobile Club and its secretary from 1903 to 1923 (The Times, 2 July 1923); he was knighted in 1919 for ‘exceptional services in providing for overseas officers during the war’, The Times, 13 Aug. 1919; he was also director of the Bournemouth-‐Swanage Motor Road and Ferry Company (The Times, 6 Dec. 1924) and the Ascot Motor & Manufacturing Co. Ltd (The Times, 21 Feb. 1928), and other companies. When he died he was living near Norwich and left unsettled property of £5,452 gross, net personalty £1,853. The Times, 19 June 1929, The Times, 9 Oct. 1929.
Haskells, Lyndhurst
1859 New house on the site of a ‘small thatched cottage’, built for Edward Willoughby Bryan who, in 1884, applied for a license to use it as an inn. In 1896 it was ‘licensed and not kept open because it was not remunerative’.
Bowden-‐Smith, ‘Lyndhurst’, 8; Hampshire Advertiser, 16 Aug. 1884; F 10/146, cutting from Hampshire Independent, 3 Oct. 1896.
High Coxlease, Lyndhurst
1900 New house designed by W. R. Lethaby for Thomas Eustace Smith (1831-‐1903), Tyneside owner of ships and docks, shipbuilder, and MP for Tynemouth, and his wife Martha, art patron (later known as Eustacia, 1835-‐1919) on land leased from the crown on a 99-‐year lease, rent £20 p.a. the first year, and £60 p.a. subsequently, with an undertaking to spend ‘not less than £4,000, the house to be completed and finished fit for habitation by the 10th October 1901’.
Independent special needs school opened c.1980.
F 10/292, Thomas Eustace Smith to E. Stafford Howard, 11 July 1900; ‘Smith , Martha Mary [Eustacia] (1835–1919)’, DNB [www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/62864, accessed 18 July 2012]; Babey and Roberts, Lyndhurst, pp. 36-‐7.
High Croft, Burley
1902 New house built on the site of Farm Cottage for Miss Mary Frances Saurin (d. 1912, daughter of Admiral Saurin), with a garden designed by Gertrude Jekyll. The house stayed in the family until at least 1936 when Pauline, widow of Arthur Saurin, died.
Still residential, now offering Bed and Breakfast.
Hardcastle, Records of Burley, p. 193; ‘Highcroft, Burley’, [www.colindocketty.co.uk/ highcroft/aroundabout.php, accessed 19 July 2012].
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Hill House, Lyndhurst
1867 Earlier the doctor’s house, it was ‘sold … to Mrs. Gaussen, who has nearly re-‐built the place’. Alicia Fenton Gaussen was the daughter of William Henry Bayley of the Madras Civil Service, and the widow of James Robert Gaussen (d. 1870), surgeon with the Royal Artillery.
Hotel in 1960s; 2012 a care home.
Bowden-‐Smith, ‘Lyndhurst’, 8; Penny Illustrated Paper, 7 May 1870; The Star (Saint Peter Port), 16 July 1870); The Times, 4 July 1913.
Hilltop House, Beaulieu
17th century
Referred to earlier as Hilltop and occupied by curates until 1907 when it was occupied by Raymond Leuchars. On the 1897 map it appears to have been rebuilt.
HCC, Hampshire treasures, V, p. 6; possibly Raymond Leuchars (1881-‐1927).
Hincheslea, near Brockenhurst
Early 19th century
House built for Admiral Thomas Wolley (d. 1826). Owned by Frederick Francis Lovell (1821-‐1906) from 1858, and then by his daughter Maud until her death in 1941. Lovell was Master of the New Forest Deerhounds, 1858-‐93.
Sold in 1943, auctioned in 1977, destroyed by fire in 1978 and rebuilt as an American log cabin (for sale in 1993 for £1.2m).
The Times, 21 Mar. 1908; Coles, Messuages and mansions, p. 99.
Hollowdene, Camp Hill, Lyndhurst
Early 19th century?
Previously known as the Vicarage, then as Sunnycote, and to Mrs Bowden-‐Smith as ‘Mrs Reynolds’s’, at the 1911 Census, this house was occupied by Leonard Rodwell Wilkinson, son of Col. Josiah Wilkinson, and brother of Captain Neville Rodwell Wilkinson, Ulster King of Arms.
Demolished after 1913.
Bowden-‐Smith, ‘Lyndhurst’, photograph; 33M81/E/T58, Agreement for sale for £3,500: messuage and piece of land; The Times, 11 Feb. 1913. Born in 1868, Wilkinson played football for Oxford University and was a barrister and JP. Having been suffering from insomnia, he committed suicide in 1913. (One can only speculate that perhaps this was the reason the house was subsequently pulled down.)
Holly Mount, Lyndhurst
1869 New house built on the site of an old one by General Charles Henry Morris in 1869, when he ‘thought of marrying … Lady Blanche Morris’, daughter of the 8th duke of Leeds.
Bowden-‐Smith, ‘Lyndhurst’, 21; The Times, 15 Oct. 1887.
Holmehurst, Burley
c.1903 New house built for Henry Forbes-‐Witherby (1836-‐1907), Law Stationer (in 1881, employer of 169), Ornithologist and FZS. His widow Emily lived there until her death in 1915. Major Alfred Charles Hugh Lyman-‐Dixon and his wife Evelyn Dorothy Mabel, daughter of Frederick Stiles Lyman of Montreal, Canada, lived there 1920 until their deaths in 1937 and 1938 respectively.
Used by the army in World War II. For sale in 1955 ‘of special interest to developers’, but bought by the Lawford family who opening it as a hotel, now the White Buck.
P. L. Sclater and A. H. Evans (eds), The Ibis: a quarterly journal of ornithology: Eighth Series, III (1903), p. xxi; The Times, 25 Jan. 1938, 2 Nov. 1938; HRO 159M88/771; ‘The White Buck Inn’ [www.fullershotels.com/content/page/2726/White Buck – Wine Menu -‐ 010110.pdf, accessed 25 Aug. 2011].
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Holmfield, Lyndhurst
1885 House owned by the Nicholls family, the home of Sir Charles and Lady Burrard until 1885, when it was acquired by the crown ‘and has been nearly rebuilt’. After that it was let to a whole series of tenants, including George Meyrick (1855-‐1928), son of the developer of Bournemouth.
A residential home, then a hotel and now apartments.
Bowden-‐Smith, ‘Lyndhurst’, 18; Sir George Eliott Meyrick Tapps-‐Gervis-‐Meyrick, 3rd Baronet, was the developer of Bournemouth, and his son was George Augustus Elliott Tapps Gervis Meyrick ‘MEYRICK, Sir George Augustus Eliott Tapps-‐Gervis-‐’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 [www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/ whowaswho/U200336, accessed 31 July 2012]; Babey and Roberts, Lyndhurst, p. 5.
Holmwood, Brockenhurst
c.1900 Holmwood was a new house built on the site of Brookley House some time between 1897 and 1909. By 1911 it was occupied by Henry Jukes Hibberd (1847-‐1923), a medical practitioner, and his wife; a laundry proprietor and his wife (boarders); two patients and one lady companion; and two of the servants are described as ‘sick nurses’.
Watersplash Hotel from at least the 1960s to now.
Hurstly, near Boldre
1897 New house used possibly as a second home by William Eustace Firth (1862-‐1923), carpet manufacturer of Heckmondwike in Yorkshire. The Firths were at Heckmondwike in 1911, but the Firths are listed in the directories as the residents of Hurstly 1903-‐1923. Firth endowed Lymington Cottage Hospital and when Mrs Firth died in 1937 her estate was £46,106 gross, net personalty £38,242, and she left £500 to the endowment fund.
For sale 1950 and 1952.
According to ‘Firth history’ [www.firthcarpets.co.uk/firthhistory.html], accessed 17 July 2012, Algernon Firth became chairman of the Firth Carpets in 1909; from census records it looks as if he was William Firth’s older brother; The Times, 8 Sept. 1937.
Inchmery House
1780 Built as the dower house for Exbury and extended in the late nineteenth century. Bought by Lionel de Rothschild in 1912 from the de la Warr family.
For sale in 1939 and to let in 1941; sold in 1987 for £1m and converted to luxury flats.
Coles, Messuages and mansions, p. 103; Holland and de Rothschild, Our Exbury, p. 10.
Ladycross Lodge, near Brockenhurst
1873 Former keeper’s lodge, leased by the crown in 1873 to Colonel Bagot, in 1876 to Charles Baston, and in 1878 to Colonel William Wilberforce Harris Greathed (1826-‐78) of the Bengal Engineers. Greathed’s widow kept on the lease, subletting to tenants (including George Meyrick and Lionel Munro-‐Walker), until in 1897 she transferred it to her son-‐in-‐law Lord Justice Darling (1849-‐1936). Darling made some improvements. In 1915 he transferred the lease to
Remodelled and renovated by Sherlock Boswell Architecture (www.sherlockboswell.com/project_6.html).
F 10/160, Lady Cross Lodge, 1884-‐Apr. 1914; Sherlock Boswell Architecture [www.sherlockboswell.com/project_6.html], accessed 26 Sept. 2012; The Times, 30 June 1905.
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Mrs Wyndham F. Cook (1856-‐1925), whose late husband had been partner in a Manchester wholesale drapers. Mrs Cook made extensive improvements, with Guy Dawber as her architect.
Latchmoor, near Brockenhurst
1911 ‘Small country house’ built on site of Latchmoor Farm in 1911 for Robert Emmott Large (1846-‐1926), retired solicitor, who lived there until his death in 1926.
In the late 1990s, on the market at £474,000.
The National Heritage List for England [list.english-‐heritage.org.uk, accessed 7 June 2011]; Emmott Large died with a net personalty of £12,151, The Times, 8 Feb. 1926; his wife, Katherine Philippa (the granddaughter of Robert Hicks of Efford Park, Lymington), who lived in the house until she died in 1946, was founder of the Co-‐operative Movement for Private Nurses trained in British Hospitals, The Times, 6 Mar. 1946; Coles, Messuages and mansions, p. 51.
Lepe House, near Exbury
Early 20th century
The old Ship Inn, enlarged and modernized by Henry Forster, Conservative politician, later Baron Forster of Lepe. Bought by Lionel de Rothschild in 1918.
Holland and de Rothschild, Our Exbury, pp. 10-‐11.
Little Weirs, Brockenhurst
c.1924 New house designed by Paul Phipps for Mr C. G. Norbury, ‘a blend of tradition domestic architecture with Colonial and French … every one of the living rooms and all the bedrooms, including the servants’ … have a south aspect’. The only C. G. Norbury to be found was in the Rifle Brigade, but there is no evidence to link him with the house.
In 1933, to let as ‘Weirs House’. Marked on the 1964 OS map as ‘The Weirs’ and for sale in 2011 for £1,850,000.
R. R. Phillips, ‘The lesser country houses of to-‐day: Little Weirs, Brockenhurst, Hants, designed by Mr. Paul Phipps’, Country Life, 13 Dec. 1924; for sale in 1924, HRO 159M88/920; The Times, 8 May 1933.
Littlecroft, Emery Down, Lyndhurst
c.1889 New house built for Morton Kelsall Peto, son of Sir Samuel Morton Peto, contractor for railways and public works and Sarah Ainsworth, eldest daughter of Henry Kelsall of Rochdale, textile manufacturer and leading Baptist layman.
Burnt down in 1913, advertised as a building site in 1914.
Babey, Images, pp. 112; ‘Peto, Sir (Samuel) Morton, first baronet (1809–1889)’, DNB; [www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/22042], accessed 20 Oct. 2011; The Times, 1914.
Lynwood, Lyndhurst
c.1850 Old house, occupied by ‘Mrs. [Catherine] Gore [1799-‐1861], the authoress of many novels now out of date’, after her financial situation had been eased by an inheritance from a maternal cousin.
Demolished 1860s; replaced by Stydd House.
Bowden-‐Smith, ‘Lyndhurst’, 3; ‘Gore [née Moody], Catherine Grace Frances (1799/1800–1861)’, DNB [www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/11091], accessed 19 Oct. 2011.
Malwood, Minstead
1883 Master keeper’s lodge for Castle Malwood walk, ‘extended’ by Sir William Harcourt (1827-‐1904), Liberal politician and Chancellor of the Exchequer, who obtained the site on a 99-‐year building lease. Although Harcourt’s widow and then their son were later listed as living there, before it was sold in 1921 it was rented to, among others, Baron Welby, civil servant and politician, who died there.
Now once again referred to as ‘Castle Malwood Lodge’, the house is divided into apartments.
The ‘extension’ is far larger than, and dominates, the original lodge, which can, however, still be clearly seen. It was designed in the Arts and Crafts style by Euan Christian. F 10/11; The Times, 26 July 1921; ‘Welby, Reginald Earle, Baron Welby (1832–1915)’, DNB [www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/36821, accessed 14 Aug. 2012].
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Marden, Brockenhurst
c.1897 New house built on the north side of the North Weirs enclosure. Dr Francis O. Buckland (b. 1858) was in residence 1898-‐1903; his wife Elizabeth (b. 1863) until 1911 (they must have moved away because they did not die in the area).
For sale in 1948
Minstead Lodge Mid-‐19th century
Owned by the Prestons 1859-‐1895; Mrs Matthews Duncan (1839-‐1915), widow of James Matthews Duncan, Queen Victoria’s obstetrian, from 1898 to her death; two Earls of Northesk d. 1921 and 1924, forcing its sale to Lord Congleton to pay death duties.
Sold by the Earl of Northesk to settle estate duty in 1924; later used as a Christian study centre and as a halfway house for retarded school-‐leavers.
The National Heritage List for England [list.english-‐heritage.org.uk, accessed 7 June 2011]; ‘Duncan, James Matthews (1826–1890)’, DNB [www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/8218, accessed 27 July 2012]; Coles, Messuages and mansions, p. 154; HRO 159M88/1047.
Minstead Manor House
18th century?
Seat of the Compton family from c.1513 until the death of Henry Francis Compton (1872-‐1943). In 1921 Compton sold off about 700 acres of the estate.
Estate broken up in 1944. Despite a demolition sale in 1949, the house appears to still be there.
Roberts, Minstead, p. 3; Coles, Messuages and mansions, p. 155; The Times, 5 July 1944; HRO 159M88/1049; ‘Minstead Manor, 14 Jan. 2012’ in The New Forest Hounds [www.newforesthounds.co.uk/gallerypages/110/Minstead-‐Manor/2011/, accessed 21 July 2012].
Moonhills, Beaulieu
1904 New house built on the first parcel of land to be leased by the Beaulieu estate for Herbert Charles Humphery, Lloyds underwriter (1858-‐1925), who lived there until at least 1923.m
For sale in 1951. Widnell, Beaulieu record, p. 409; The Times, 24 June 1925.
Moorhill House, Burley
1869 House originally called Shabden Hill and possibly built for Mrs Robins (‘of Shabden Hill’ in 1859). It was in the Anstie family 1867-‐1901. James Anstie QC (1836-‐1924), of the Anstie tobacco and snuff manufacturers of Devizes, owned it 1889-‐99, possibly as a home for his sister Elizabeth (d. 1898), who was living there in 1891. Anstie was a Charity Commissioner 1884-‐1892, when he retired. In 1901 he donated the house to be a Holiday Home for Nonconformist Ministers. He was living in Southbourne with his daughter in 1901.
Became a hotel in 1947.
The Times, 6 Oct. 1924; Hardcastle, Records of Burley, p. 201.
New Park, near Brockenhurst
17th century
‘A delightful old house of Jacobean or very early Georgian character … at one time on lease to the Duke of Bedford,
Opened as a country house
Lascelles, Thirty-‐five years, pp. 115-‐6, p. 104; New Park Manor [www.newparkmanorhotel.co.uk/hotel/], accessed 12 June
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Lord Warden, and his heirs’, ‘the residence always occupied by the Commissioners of Woods’. William Cecil Standish (1823-‐88), his widow, and his daughter Lucy Christiana Standish (1857-‐1906) lived there 1878-‐95, followed by six separate residents between 1898 and 1924, including Owen Talbot Price (1869-‐1963) in 1907 and Francis Claughton Matthews (1833-‐1924), London solicitor in the firm Mathews (F. C.) & Co., 1915-‐1924
hotel in 1970.m 2012.
Newtown Park, South Baddesley
Early 18th century
Bought by Jules Duplessis (1834-‐1913) for £12,815 in 1858 and inherited by his son Jules Gaston, who passed it on to his nephew in 1956.
Sold for £28,000 to the farm tenant in 1958; on the market in 1996 for £2m.
Coles, Messuages and mansions, p. 161-‐2.
Northerwood, Lyndhurst
18th century
House built in the eighteenth century by ‘Mr Mitchell, a West Indian Proprietor’, and sold to [John] Pulteney, who let it to tenants, including the Earl of Londesborough. Around 1895 it was purchased by Edward Festus Kelly, chairman of Kelly’s Directories, who leased it back to the Pulteneys.
Presented to the Forestry Commission in 1945. Enlarged, it is now divided into flats.
Bowden-‐Smith, ‘Lyndhurst’, 14; Col. Fenwick Bulmer de la Sales Terriere in 1907, Francis Bowes Lyon from at least 1914 until he sold it in 1918, and Capt. William Henry Trinder in 1920.
Oak House, Brockenhurst
c.1890? New house built in the south-‐west corner of Waters Green. A boarding house in 1891, the boarders comprised three gentlemen of private means who described themselves as landscape artists. Two of these men were still in residence in 1901 and in 1911, on separate census entries, one was described as ‘occupier of two roooms’ and another as ‘boarder’. The ownership of the house is unknown.
Became the Brockenhurst Hotel and is now divided into apartments as Knightwood Court.
Dating is problematic, as the house appears in the 1891 census but not on the 1897 map. One of the artists of 1891, Hugh Wilkinson (1850-‐1948), was listed in the 1898 directory but in 1901 was described as ‘Barrister at Law’ and living with a wife at Beachern Wood (a smaller house along the Rhinefield road); widowed, he was back at Oak House in 1911. He painted a harvest scene entitled ‘New Park Farm, Brockenhurst’ (held by New Forest Museum and Library). Henry Francis Bailey (1831-‐1916) left money to buy the Cromer lifeboat. He is described in N. Leach and P. Russell, Cromer Lifeboats, 1804-‐2004 (Stroud, 2004), 54, as a ‘London merchant who was born in Norfolk’, although all three census records state that he was born in Thorney, Cambridgeshire. The third of the trio was George Murray Hicks who in 1911 was at Brighton. All three would appear to have died in the New Forest area.
Ober House, Brockenhurst
1912-‐13 New house built on land owned by the Morant family. For sale in 1915, it was occupied 1923-‐7 by Samuel Gurney-‐Dixon (1878-‐1970), ‘a country doctor … invalided out of the
Demolished and fourteen 5-‐bedoom
Coles, Messuages and mansions, p. 166; The Times, 4 Sept. 1915; ‘Obituary of Richard Chamberlain (1914-‐2005)’ in The Old Radleian (2005), p. 42. While resident in Brockenhurst,
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war due to mustard gas’. Gurney-‐Dixon had been living at Whitley Ridge in 1920, and moved to Winchester before 1930.
properties were built on the site in the early 1990s.
Gurney-‐Dixon wrote to The Times (28 Dec. 1922) with an idea for insuring a local builder against loss due to a falling property market: ‘Let ten local residents guarantee him against (say) the first £100 loss on the building of a £1,000 house … If each guarantor loses his £10 he avoids, at any rate, having to support the builder’s workmen out of the rates. Such a scheme was started in this village, in anticipation of unemployment, a year ago, and a guarantee fund of £200 was quickly obtained. It was not proceeded with because local builders secured sufficient contract work to keep their men employed.’
Okefield, Lyndhurst
1858 Previously The Cottage, where ‘many people have lived … since 1858’, purchased by Col. Macleay and let to William Lushington (d. 1888) and his wife, who ‘improved the cottage very much’. It appears to have been a second home, the Lushington residence being at Bramley in 1871 and 1881. Sold as part of the Glasshayes Estate, 1895.
Bowden-‐Smith, ‘Lyndhurst’, 24; NFRL sale particulars for 1895; the sale particulars in F 10/146 for the sale of the Glasshayes property in 1896 exclude Okefield, so the assumption is that it had already been sold.
Old House, near Burley
1881-‐97 ‘“Old House” as a name is on a par with “New Forest,” for the latter … has not become old, and the former never appears to have been new.’ Maps nevertheless show it as having been considerably enlarged between 1871 and 1897, by the eccentric politician and author, the Hon. Auberon Herbert (1838-‐1906), who purchased it in 1881. This was where Herbert hosted his ‘Old House Teas’, as the invitations said, ‘while the pot lasts’. The house was inherited by his younger son, Auberon Thomas Herbert (1876-‐1916). His sister Nan (1880-‐1958) inherited it in turn and was still living there 1920-‐23.
Still residential. Hardcastle, Records of Burley, pp. 125-‐6; ‘Herbert, Auberon Edward William Molyneux (1838–1906)’, DNB [www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/33828, accessed 20 July 2012]; The Times, 6 Nov. 1906, 4 Dec. 1916, 28 Nov. 1958; a photograph in Coles, Messuages and mansions, p. 61, shows the tower on the roof, in which the Hon. Auberon Herbert slept.
Old Mansion, The, near Boldre
1903 House on the site of Heywood Manor, part of the Morants’ estate. It had been converted into two cottages, the remainder being used to rebuild Heywood Mill. Enlarged by Herbert George Alexander, son of Robert Henry Alexander of Alexanders banking and discount company, and his wife, the aunt of its owner, John Morant (a minor). The Alexanders joined the cottages together to make one symmetrical house.
For sale in 1981 for £495,000.
1920s additions to the house were designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield. The Alexanders lived there until Mrs Alexander’s death in 1937, after which Mr Alexander moved to Westonbirt, Gloucestershire. Perkins, Boldre, p. 75; Coles, Messuages and mansions, pp. 44, 95; The Times, 17 Feb. 1891, 29 May 1901; The Times, 11 Jan 1902, 10 Sept. 1937, 27 July 1940.
Orchard, The, Brockenhurst
1878 House on the Brookley estate, enlarged between 1897 and 1909. Mrs Bovill was in residence in 1898. It was for sale in
Hampshire Advertiser, 30 May 1900; a John Henry Bovill, corn factor, was a director of Martinez Gassiot and Co. Ltd. (port
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1900. Arthur Knatchbull Connell (1851-‐1914) lived there from 1903, and his widow lived there until she died in 1925.
shippers) in 1903 (The Times, 18 June 1903), but there is no evidence to connect him with the house.
Palace House, Beaulieu
1872 Bought by the Earl of Southampton, Thomas Wriothesley, after the dissolution of the monasteries, by the nineteenth century it was the seat of Lord Henry Montagu Douglas Scott (1832-‐1905) for whom the title Baron Montagu of Beaulieu was created. The house was remodelled in 1872 by Arthur Blomfield (1829-‐99).
The house has since descended via the 2nd Lord Montagu (1866-‐1929) to the 3rd (b. 1926).
The National Heritage List for England [list.english-‐heritage.org.uk], accessed 12 June 2011.
Parkhill, Lyndhurst
1850s-‐60s? Formerly ‘called Pond Head … it was a very small house … enlarged by Captain [William] Morant [c.1860] who made a nice house of it’.
By 1889 it was a school and is now the Lime Wood Hotel.
Bowden-‐Smith, ‘Lyndhurst’, 23.
Pennerley Lodge, near Beaulieu
Major Francis Charles Baring, 1907, George Compton 1908-‐18, Mrs Isabella Campbell, 1918.
Picket Post House, near Burley
1909 Old house, lived in by the Phelps family, purchased by Auberon Herbert (see Old House) in 1893; demolished in 1909 by his son, Auberon Herbert, Lord Lucas (1876-‐1916) who built the new Picket Post House on the site of Dilamgerbendi Insula.
Levelled to build the A31.
Hardcastle, Records of Burley, 133.
Pylewell House, South Baddesley
Mid-‐18th century
Enlarged during the early nineteenth century by Joseph Weld, who also moved the road to the north to create the park. William Ingham Whitaker, who had inherited estates bought with wealth made out of the Marsala wine trade, ‘acquired the estate in 1874, immediately making significant alterations to the house and adding a new drive and lodge’. His son William inherited it in 1893 and developed the pleasure grounds with Asian and Australasian plant collections.
After World War II the early 20th-‐century east and west wings were demolished. Inherited by a nephew of William Ingham Whitaker III in 1988.
Coles, Messuages and mansions, p. 181-‐2; Pinnell, Country house history, p. 15; Pylewell Park [www.pylewellpark.com/], accessed 15 July 2012.
Rhinefield, near Brockenhurst
1888-‐90 Master keeper’s lodge greatly enlarged by Romaine Walker & Tanner for Miss Mabel Zoe Walker (1866-‐1934), only child of Thomas Walker of Eastwood Hall, and heiress of the Eastwood Colliery fortune, who married Edward Lionel Munro, RN (1862-‐1920), in 1887. When Mrs Walker-‐Munro died her unsettled estate was worth £92,573 gross, with net
After several unsuccessful schemes for refurbishment, and ten years as a private school,
The National Heritage List for England [list.english-‐heritage.org.uk, accessed 12 June 2012]; Morning Post, 2 July 1887; The Times, 19 Oct. 1934; Southern Life (UK) [southernlife.org.uk/rhinefie.htm, accessed 12 June 2012]; Nicholas Holdings Ltd bought the property in 1983: NFRL, Land Use Consultants, ‘Rhinefield House Hotel: the potential
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personalty of £51,573. the house was converted into a hotel by Nicholas Holdings Ltd.
effects of the conversion on the surrounding environment’, report prepared for Nicholas Holdings Ltd (1986).
Rings, The, Beaulieu
1911 New house, occupied from 1915-‐20 by Sir Edward Ridley (1843-‐1928), Judge in the High Court of Justice (1897-‐1917)and Privy Councillor (1917), who translated Lucan’s Pharsalia into blank verse and whose obituary said ‘of country life he was very fond, and he was a keen student and observer of Nature.’ In 1923 it was occupied by Mrs Coulson and Mrs du Cane.
For sale, 1925 and 1933
The Times, 15 Oct. 1928; ‘Ridley,Rt Hon. Sir Edward’, Who Was Who 2012 [www.ukwhoswho. com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U202214/RIDLEY_Rt_Hon._Sir_Edward], accessed 17 July 2012; HRO 159M88/1314.
Riversdale, Boldre
1871 Described as a ‘charming Georgian house’ when it was for sale in 1951.
HRO 159M88/1315.
Rodlease, Boldre
Late 18th or early 19th century.
Old house, ‘to let’ in 1859 and ‘for sale’ in 1860, it was occupied by John Lane Shrubb 1867-‐75, Captain John Liddell 1878-‐1911, and Hugh Perronet Thompson from 1915. Shrubb inherited the property from his uncle, the Rev. Henry Shrubb. Thompson (who may have been related to Thomas Perronet Thompson, 1783-‐1869, although there is no evidence) died in 1937 leaving £14,232 in property with a net personalty of £10,659.
The Times, 11 Feb. 1859, 28 Aug. 1860, 15 Aug. 1879; ‘Thompson, Thomas Perronet (1783–1869)’, DNB [www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/27280], accessed 9 July 2012.
Rope Hill, Boldre
Late 18th century
‘This house was enlarged by Admiral Brine from an old cottage which is still within it.’ In the 1880s and 1890s the house was occupied by Edmund Gustave Bloomfield Meade-‐Waldo, an ‘ardent naturalist … [whose] ample means enabled him to … give much personal time to all questions of protecting scenery, maintaining and watching sanctuaries, and defending public rights of way’.
Still owned by the Knapton family in 1965, but now a school.
Perkins, Boldre, p. 78; The Times, 17 Aug. 1965, 26 Feb. 1934.
Rosière, Lyndhurst
C18th ‘This charming little estate is very old. I believe it must have been built by a Dissenter, as the Baptist Chapel and the ground on which it stands must have been part of the estate’. Purchased by Lady Erroll in 1861 for £4,000.
Renamed Hawkslease after 1910.
Bowden-‐Smith, ‘Lyndhurst’, 6.
Roydon House, near Brockenhurst
1915 Farmhouse extended between 1910 and 1920 by the Morant family of Brockenhurst House. Until then it was available for lodging, and ‘Hudson the great Naturalist lodged here while he wrote his book Hampshire Days, 1903’.
Since 1958, the main residence of the Morant family.
Perkins, Boldre, p. 78; Coles, Messuages and mansions, p. 195.
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Salternshill, near Beaulieu
1915 A farm called Salters Hill until the 1900s, it was described in 1931 as a ‘delightful modernized 16th Century House with many old-‐world features and recently the subject of great expenditure’. Three inhabitants are listed in directories: Henry Hugh L. Miller in 1915, the Hon. Mrs Lubbock in 1920 and Ernest R. Barrow in 1923.
For sale in 1931. The Times, 10 Apr. 1931; HRO 159M88/1386. Widnell, Beaulieu record, p. 391: ‘the gracious and kindly Mrs E. T. Lubbock of Salterns Hill entertains the Sunday School children from Park to a “charming outing to Bournemouth” [in 1922]’.
Setley House, near Brockenhurst
1869 Old house earlier called Clifton Lodge; enlarged in the 1890s. Edward Lingard Lucas (1860-‐1936), grandson of Thomas Lucas of Messrs Lucas Brothers builders and contractors, lived there 1898-‐1901.
Still residential. Messrs. Lucas Brothers [www.lucasbrothers.co.uk/, accessed 31 July 2012]
Shirley Holms, Sway (near Boldre)
Old house, enlarged in the 1880s by William Henry Burton of the Royal Engineers, who along with other New Forest residents gave evidence at an ‘inquiry into the safety and suitability of the proposed rifle range’ in 1892. Burton died between 1911 and 1915, when Mrs Burton was living there alone.
Still residential. The Times, 22 Apr. 1892.
Shrubbs Hill, Lyndhurst
1859 An old house, purchased by Admiral Robert Aitchison in the 1850s. It was let to Captain William Martin Powell, until Captain (later Admiral) Henry Compton Aitchison came to live there, 1881-‐99.
Bowden-‐Smith, ‘Lyndhurst’, 30.
Sowley House, near Beaulieu
1911 Farmhouse renamed Sowley House in the 1890s; Viscount Coke (1880-‐1949) lived there 1915-‐23.
Still residential
St Austins, Boldre
1787 Old house built by Captain Josias Rogers on the site of Battramsley Farm (which was on the site of a grange of Christchurch Priory). It became the property of John Granville Beaumont Pulteney of Northerwood in 1834 and was occupied in the 1850s-‐’60s by the Misses Heathcote; by various people from then until the 1890s and for the first four decades of the twentieth century by Keppel Pulteney (1869-‐1944).
Around 1900 Pulteney started selling the estate off. He tried to sell the house in 1920, eventually succeeding in 1944. The purchaser was local ‘captain of industry’, John Howlett. It was demolished 1995.
Perkins, Boldre, p. 79; W. White, History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight (1859), p. 383; HCC, Hampshire treasures, V, The New Forest (1981), p. 18; Coles, Messuages and mansions, p. 196; Pinnell, Country house history, p. 14: ‘in 1890 when Keppel Pulteney inherited 2000 acres … it was devoid of working capital’; ibid., p. 15: Howlett owned Wellworthy, a company manufacturing piston rings at Lymington and later also purchased Newtown House; conversation with resident of one of the houses subsequently built on the site, Summer 2011.
Stydd House, 1860s New house built, by Lady Surtees, to replace Lynwood ‘in a Bowden-‐Smith, ‘Lyndhurst’, 3; Derby Mercury, 2 Jan. 1889.
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Lyndhurst worse position’. Purchased c.1889 by William Munton Jaffray, younger son of Sir John Jaffray, 1st Baronet, journalist and newspaper proprietor, founder of the Birmingham Daily Post and the Birmingham Mail.
The House in the Wood, Beaulieu
1911 New house, occupied by Mrs Edith Milburn in 1911, and by Captain Hubert E. L. Bolton 1915-‐23. Bolton, a barrister in 1911, had ‘just returned [in 1920] from the war after serving in the yeomanry [and] was at the time renting [it], furnished, from Lord Montagu. He was a Lancashireman, and with his truly charming wife and teen-‐aged daughters formed a delightful family, who were among Beaulieu’s most popular and foremost residents of the day’.
For sale in 1953 Widnell, Beaulieu record, p. 386, in the entry for 1920; HRO 159M88/794.
Tweed, Boldre Early 19th century (ante 1815)
House built by Captain T. E. Symonds and named after his ship. From the 1870s to his death in 1904 the house was occupied by William John Charles Moens, writer, antiquarian, ‘great champion of Forest Rights [and] pioneer in the growth of Sugar Beets, &c’. His widow lived at the house until she died in 1916.
For sale in 1952. Perkins, Boldre, p. 79-‐80. Perkins also says that ‘The story of this house is told in a book (written by one of the twins [adopted by Capt. Symonds]) called Les Jumelles or the Twins. London 1828’. This book has been republished twice and all three versions are available in the British Library. See Bibliography for details. Moens was the son of a Dutch West Indies merchant who had settled in London; after beginning a career in the Stock Exchange, he bought the house in Boldre and devoted himself to travel and antiquarianism. He was also an advocate of allotments. ‘Möens, William John Charles (1833–1904)’, DNB [www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/35051], accessed 10 July 2012; The Times, 5 May 1916.
Vereley, Burley c.1896 New house built, on land bought from Colonel Esdaile in 1894, for William Wathen-‐Bartlett (1867-‐1934), Lloyds Underwriter, who lived there 1899-‐1934. His wife Vanda stayed in Burley until her death in 1949.
Hardcastle, Records of Burley, p. 229; The Times, 2 Apr. 1934, 29 June 1949.
Vernalls, Lyndhurst
C.17th ‘[A] very old gabled house about 300 years old’, where Mr and Mrs Richard Bowden-‐Smith settled in 1856, at first renting it from Admiral Aitcheson. They purchased it in 1860. Mrs Bowden-‐Smith lived there until she died in 1906, and her son Walter Baird Bowden-‐Smith until he died in 1932.
Demolished since Walter’s death.
Bowden-‐Smith, ‘Lyndhurst’, 1. Richard Bowden-‐Smith was a younger brother of Nathaniel Bowden-‐Smith of Brockenhurst.
Vicars Hill House
Old house purchased in 1874 by Edward Henry Pember (1883-‐1911), barrister and writer (‘a prominent figure in the social and literary life of London’), who died there. Mrs
‘Pember, Edward Henry (1833–1911)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/35462, accessed 20 Oct.
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Property Date Details Later history Notes and sources
Beatrice Gross owned it in 1922 and the house was described as ‘thoroughly up-‐to-‐date and comfortable’.
2011]; Campion, Recent history, 51-‐52.
Vineyards, The, Beaulieu
c.1907 New house built for Sir James Fowler (1852-‐1934), eminent physician and friend of Lord Montagu (who had commissioned him to ‘write his standard work on the Abbey and its buildings’). Fowler had taken a 99-‐year building lease of ‘part of Hartford Wood and the land to the south known locally as the Vineyards’. Fowler sold the property after World War I, returning to Beaulieu in 1929 when he built the Warden’s Lodge. Eric Carter was in residence in 1923.
For sale in 1939 and 1949.
Widnell, Beaulieu record, pp. 366, 455; ‘Fowler, Sir James Kingston’, Who Was Who 2012 [www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U209653/FOWLER_Sir_James_Kingston], accessed 17 July 2012; HRO 159M88/1711.
Warborne House, Boldre
1878 ‘Reputed to be the site of a hunting lodge of King John … Mr David Jones [landowner, who lived there 1863-‐1915] rebuilt the house: but the date on the house is 1878’.
Still residential, offering Bed and Breakfast.
Perkins, Boldre, p. 86; www.cmbower.co.uk/Articles/OtherProjects/CallingBook/Articles/PotentialMatches.html.
Wayside, Brockenhurst
1911 In 1911, 10 rooms, so perhaps does not qualify for the sample, but occupied by Bessie J. Cosens (1863-‐1938), a widow, 48, who put her occupation as ‘Member of the NUWS Society’ and added the words ‘and I protest against the injustice of having to help a government which refuses me the Parliamentary vote’.
For sale in 1953, ‘ideally placed close to the village centre and main line station’.
NUWS was the National Union of Women Suffragettes; HRO 159M88/1739.
Whitemoor, Burley
c.1911 New house built for James Easterbrook (1852-‐1923) retired grammar school headmaster who was living there in 1911.
For sale in the 1930s for £12,000.
The Times, 9 Feb. 1923; Coles, Messuages and mansions, p. 52
Whitley Ridge, near Brockenhurst
1867 Master keeper’s lodge leased out by the Crown. From 1867 to her death in 1877 it was the residence of Miss Jane Fisher, whose father was the Master of Charterhouse. Major Henry Charles Talbot (1839-‐1901) built a new house in consideration for the grant of the lease, but in 1892 was proposing that the Crown pay for improvements, for which he would pay interest at 5% p.a. After Talbot’s death, the lease was transferred to Mr Edward Lingard Lucas (1860-‐1936), later 3rd Baronet Lucas, of Setley House, Brockenhurst, who spent a considerable sum of money on it. In May 1908 there were plans to pull down and rebuild part of the house. In 1914 it was bought by the Earl of Northesk. Dr Gurney-‐Dixon (see Ober House) was living there in 1920.
Converted into a hotel by 1981. Now ‘The Pig’ country house hotel and restaurant.
The Times, 18 Oct. 1877; TNA F 10/162; Edward Lingard Lucas was the grandson of Thomas Lucas of Messrs Lucas Brothers, builders and contractors, Messrs. Lucas Brothers [www.lucasbrothers.co.uk/], accessed 12 June 2012; The Times, 14 July 1914; Coles, Messuages and mansions, p. 232.
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Property Date Details Later history Notes and sources
Wilverley, Lyndhurst
1865-‐7 New house built for Mr Henry Buckworth Powell (1820-‐78) on 50 acres of the Foxlease estate, when the rest of the estate was sold on the death of his mother, Eliza Powell in 1865.
Demolished since 1945.
Bowden-‐Smith, ‘Lyndhurst’, 4, 5.
Woodlands Lodge, Bartley
c.1905 An old house, originally called Fletchwood. Major Henry Timson was there in 1901 and from him ‘Mr. & Mrs. Mansfield bought it and nearly rebuilt it’.
Now a hotel. Bowden-‐Smith, ‘Lyndhurst’, 39.
Woodmancote, Brockenhurst
1897x1909 New house built in the south-‐west corner of Waters Green. Three separate residents 1911-‐20, when it was renamed Nethermoor.
Requisitioned in World War II and auctioned in 1946. Now demolished and replaced with three houses.
‘An 8-‐bedroomed house in 1.6 acres’ (Coles, Messuages and mansions, p. 52).
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Appendix B. Houses by area and date Dates are sometimes approximate, and refer to dates of building (new houses), or enlargement (old houses) or conversion from a cottage, farm or inn into a country house or date of first lease in the case of a lodge. Evidence of enlargement has been gathered either from the The National Heritage List for England [list.english-‐heritage.org.uk, accessed 7 June 2011] or from comparing the different editions of the large-‐scale maps.
North Fritham Lodge, Old Bartley Lodge, Enlarged Bramshaw Hill, Old Burnford House, Enlarged Beechwood House, Enlarged Minstead Lodge, Old Minstead Manor, Old Bartley Manor, Enlarged Bartley Close, Enlarged Fritham House (1870s?), Cottage Bramshaw Lodge (1875), New Goldenhayes (1881), New Malwood (1884), Lodge Canterton Manor House (1887), New Blackwater House (1889), New Castle Malwood (1892), Enlarged Woodlands Lodge (1905), New (‘practically rebuilt’, Bowden-‐Smith, ‘Lyndhurst’, 39) Bramble Hill Lodge (1907), Lodge Fountain Court (1915), New
Centre: Lyndhurst Cuffnells, Old Northerwood, Old
Forest Bank, Old Forest Lodge, Lyndhurst, Old Lynwood, Old Gascoignes, Old Vernalls, Old Holmfield, Old Rosiere, Old Foxlease, Enlarged Shrubbs Hill, Old Parkhill (1861), Enlarged Glasshayes (1862-‐1895), Cottage Stydd House (1868), New Brooklands (1869), New Holly Mount (1869), New Elcombes (1870), Enlarged Birds Nest (1871), New Wilverley (1871), New Camp Hill (1881), New Hill House (1881), New (rebuilt?) Haskells (1884), New Littlecroft (1884), New Okefield (1885), Cottage Annesley (1885), New Bench House (1895), Cottage Allum Green House (1898), New The Cedars (1898), New
High Coxlease (1898), New Hollowdene (1906), New Apple Tree Court (1919), New
South: Brockenhurst Brockenhurst Lodge, Old Brookley House, Old Hincheslea House, Old New Park, Old Roydon Manor, Old Brockenhurst House (1860-‐1900), Enlarged Ladycross Lodge (1878), Lodge Careys (1886), New Rhinefield (1888), Lodge Black Knoll (1891), New Holmwood (1891), New Oak House (1891), New Broadlands Gate (1892), New Durham Lodge (1898), New Marden (1898), New Orchard, The (1898), New Culverley (1903), New Wayside (1907), New Whitley Ridge (1908), Lodge Woodmancote (1909), New Latchmoor (1911), New
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Rise, The (1911), New Ober House (1912), New Little Weirs (1924), New
South: Boldre Battramsley House, Old Boldre Hill, Old Newtown Park, Old Pylewell House, Enlarged Riversdale, Old Rodlease, Old Rope Hill, Old St Austins, Old Tweed, Old Vicars Hill House, Old Shirley Holms (1868), New Boldre Grange (1871), New Warborne House (1878), New (rebuilt) Setley House (1891), Farm Boldre Bridge House (1891), New Hurstly (1898), New
The Old Mansion (1903), Cottage Coxhill Lodge (1907), New
West: Burley Burley Grange, Cottage Durmast Hill, Old Burley Beacon, Enlarged Burley Lodge, Lodge Frogmore House, Old Burley Manor (1852), New Old House (1881), Cottage Moorhill House (1889), Enlarged Burley Hill (1898), New Castle Top (1898), New Vereley (1898), New High Croft (1902), New Craigellachie (1903), New Holmehurst (1903), New Whitemoor (1907), New Picket Post (1909), New (rebuilt) Campden House (1910), New
South-‐east Cadlands, Old Pennerley Lodge, Farm Forest Lodge, Hythe, Old Hilltop House, Old Salternshill, Farm Palace House (1872), Enlarged Sowley House (1899), Farm Moonhills (1904), New Abbey Spring (1906), New Harford House (1907), New Vineyards, The (1907), New Gilbury Hard (1908), Cottage Lepe House (1910), Inn Dock House, The (1911), New The House in the Wood, (1911), New The Rings, (1911), New The Drokes, (1912), New Inchmery House (1915), Enlarged Durns House (1915), New Exbury House (1920), New
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Appendix C. House sizes
This appendix contains four tables:
Table C.1 Houses in alphabetical order with acreage, number of rooms etc
(page 107); Table C.2 Sizes of ‘new’ and ‘rebuilt’ houses in order of building
date (page 112); Table C.3. Number of bedrooms by house size (page 113)
and Table C.4. Number of bathrooms by house size (page 113).
Notes on Table C.1
Type: Of the 128 houses there were 48 already in existence c.1860, as a
‘country house’, rather than as a farm, cottage or one of the crown lodges. Of
these 32 are classified as Old, and 21 as Enlarged, extended, remodelled or
modified. Separately classified as Lodge are 6 crown lodges that were
enlarged into country houses, and as Cottage 11 cottages or farms that also
became country houses. The remaining 57 are classified as New, which
includes newly built houses on greenfield sites and those rebuilt on the sites
of older houses.
Date of building, conversion, enlargement, or rebuilding, if known.
Advertisement date: Dates of sale or to let notices: details are derived from
the first one if possible but sometimes later notices proved more useful.
Source: HRO 159M88 card index reference where available (e.g. ‘2’ is
159M88/2).
Acres: number of acres mentioned in the sale notice.
Bedrooms: 1: principal bedrooms; 2: secondary or servants’ bedrooms;
Total: the sum of 1 and 2.
Bathrooms: number of bathrooms mentioned in the sale notice. Water
closets mentioned separately are not included.
Other rooms: Reception rooms: those referred to in the sale notice as such;
Other rooms: see Appendix D; Total: the sum of Reception and Other.
Total rooms: the sum of Total bedrooms, Total other rooms plus one for the
kitchen. This is to compare with the figure in the next column:
1911 census: total rooms recorded. In this column, n/b means not built yet;
n/f means not found in the census records; n/a means that the record of the
number of rooms is not available in the census records (possibly destroyed);
<> means the house had disappeared before 1911. As a methodological note, of the 55 houses for which both census and
estimated figures for room numbers exist, it is possible to look at the
discrepancy between them. In eight cases, the difference between the two
figures was between 8 and 14. In only one case of a large discrepancy were
the sales particulars from the same decade as the census: 30 rooms were
recorded in the census whereas there were only 20 when the house was
advertised in 1919. A further 18 show a difference of between 3 and 7. These
and other differences could be explained by alterations to the houses over
time. Nevertheless, there are only 30 houses for which the difference
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between the figures is between –2 and 2. There are so many reasons why
room estimates might differ from the census figures, even if we assume that
the rooms were counted correctly for the census. The dates of the sales
notices range from 1874 to 1951 (from 37 years before to 40 years after the
census); estate agents do not enumerate or name rooms systematically: in
particular it is sometimes not clear whether the servants’ bedrooms were
included.
Table C.1 Houses in alphabetical order with acreage, number of rooms etc Property Type Date Advertisement
date Source Acres Bedrooms Bath
rooms Other rooms Total
rooms 1911 rooms 1 2 Total Reception Other Total
Abbey Spring New 1906 1922, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1954
2 6 8 8 4 3 3 12 14
Allum Green House New 1898 1933 12 12 4 4 17 21 Annesley New 1885 1919 26 7 14 14 2 2 3 5 20 30 Apple Tree Court New 1919 1921, 1937 30 19.25 19 19 4 3 2 5 25 n/b Bartley Close Enlarged 1956 3.5 5 5 2 3 3 9 16 Bartley Lodge Enlarged 1872,1879*,
1930, 1935 75 59 10 8 18 2 4 2 6 25 27
Bartley Manor Enlarged 1850, 1858*, 1939
68 9 9 3 1 4 14 18
Battramsley House Old 1913 4 n/f Beechwood House Enlarged 1832*, 1919,
1937 103 63 13 13 1 4 5 19 n/a
Bench House Cottage 1895 1950, 1952 106 0.75 6 2 8 1 2 3 5 14 15 Birds Nest New 1871 1881, 1889 1 4 2 2 3 10 Black Knoll New 1891 1943, 1953 131 23 4 4 8 2 3 3 12 16 Blackwater House New 1889 never 17 Boldre Bridge House New 1891 1975 94 20 Boldre Grange New 1871 1921*, 1948 144 208 15 15 4 2 6 22 22 Boldre Hill Old Never? 230 19 Bramble Hill Lodge Lodge 1907 1922, 1946 F
10/383 29 9 5 14 1 4 3 7 22 30
Bramshaw Hill Old never? <> Bramshaw Lodge New 1875 never 11 Broadlands Gate New 1892 never? 13
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Property Type Date Advertisement date
Source Acres Bedrooms Bath rooms
Other rooms Total rooms
1911 rooms 1 2 Total Reception Other Total
Brockenhurst House Enlarged 1860-‐1900
never advertised as such
46 46 47 n/a
Brockenhurst Lodge Old never Brooklands New 1869 never? 17 Brookley House Old never 11 Burley Beacon Enlarged 1950, 1952 225 7 7 7 2 3 2 5 13 13 Burley Grange Cottage 1912-‐13* 11.5 10 10 3 3 14 n/f Burley Hill New 1898 1945, 1953 226 87 10 10 3 4 4 15 17 Burley Lodge Lodge 1874, 1881,
1883, 1933* 100 7 7 2 2 2 4 12 13
Burley Manor New 1852 1850, 1894, 1933*, 1949
227 254.25 10 10 2 3 1 4 15 21
Burnford House Enlarged 1881 30 10 4 14 2 1 3 18 18 Cadlands Enlarged 1924 3531 35 35 9 or 10 8 8 44 n/a Camp Hill New 1881 1955 243 2.75 9 9 3 3 2 5 15 16 Campden House New 1910 1928, 1929 242 20 12 12 2 3 1 4 17 15 Canterton Manor House
New 1887 1946, 1950 246 158 7 7 14 4 4 4 19 n/a
Careys New 1886 1935 14 15 15 3 3 3 19 22 Castle Malwood Enlarged 1892 1885, 1888,
1889, 1891-‐2, 1899, 1935, 1939, 1949
253 and 972
85 18 18 6 4 1 5 24 n/a
Castle Top New 1898 1934 255 35 8 8 2 3 3 12 19
Cedars, The New 1898 1900 2.5 7 7 1 3 1 4 12 14 Coxhill Lodge New 1907 1937, 1938,
1948 373 15 5 3 8 3 3 2 5 14 16
Craigellachie New 1903 1931 3.5 8 8 1 3 1 4 13 11 Cuffnells Old 1855, 1938 150 12 7 19 4 4 4 24 27 Culverley New 1903 1935, 1938,
1949 400 5 12 12 4 4 4 17 17
Dilamgerbendi Insula Old Never Dock House, The New 1911 1925 430 12 8 8 2 9 15 Drokes, The New 1912 1938 451 14 12 12 4 13 n/b
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Property Type Date Advertisement date
Source Acres Bedrooms Bath rooms
Other rooms Total rooms
1911 rooms 1 2 Total Reception Other Total
Durham Lodge New 1898 1909 1 16 Durmast Hill Old 1920, 1950 464 23 8 8 1 4 4 13 12 Durns House New 1915 1952 465 11 10 10 3 4 4 15 n/b Elcombes Enlarged 1870 1921, 1954* 489 3 8 8 4 4 4 13 20 Exbury House New 1920 never n/b Forest Bank Old never? 18 Forest Lodge, Hythe Old 1889, 1950* 556 102 7 4 11 2 3 1 4 16 18 Forest Lodge, Lyndhurst
Old 1893, 1907, 1917
6.25 6 2 8 3 3 12 11
Fountain Court New 1915 1949 559 75 6 9 15 4 5 5 21 n/b Foxlease Enlarged n/a 1919 564 129.75 24 24 9 5 5 30 28 Fritham House Cottage 1890, 1928,
1931 570 26 14 14 4 3 1 4 19 n/f
Fritham Lodge Old 1984 10 4 2 6 4 4 11 18 Frogmore House Old never? <> Gascoignes Old 1894 6 16 Gilbury Hard Cottage 1908 never 27 9 Glasshayes Cottage 1862-‐
1895 1861, 1895 6 5 4 9 1 3 2 5 15 <>
Goldenhayes New 1881 1924, 1928 614 74 7 7 2 4 4 12 14 Harford House New 1907 never? 11 Haskells New 1884 1880, 1889,
1917 3.75 10 10 1 4 4 15 17
High Coxlease New 1898 1927, 1932 731 34 13 13 4 3 1 4 18 18 High Croft New 1902 never? 16 Hill House New 1881 1913 4 10 10 3 1 4 15 15 Hilltop House Old never? 11 Hincheslea House Old 1943, 1977 99 8 8 9 27 Hollowdene New 1906 never 13 Holly Mount New 1869 never? 13 Holmehurst New 1903 1955 8 16 16 17 16 Holmfield Old never? [2] Holmwood New 1891 never 20
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Property Type Date Advertisement date
Source Acres Bedrooms Bath rooms
Other rooms Total rooms
1911 rooms 1 2 Total Reception Other Total
House in the Wood, The
New 1911 1928 14 14 2 3 3 18 21
Hurstly New 1898 1950, 192 799 10 9 3 12 3 4 1 5 18 n/f Inchmery House Enlarged 1907 1939 804 13 11 11 4 4 4 16 30 Ladycross Lodge Lodge 1878 1925 852 70 11 9 20 7 3 2 5 26 n/a Latchmoor New 1911 1926, 1938 873 3.25 7 4 11 3 2 5 17 n/b Lepe House Cottage 1910 never n/a Little Weirs New 1924 1924 920 6 3 9 2 2 2 4 14 n/b Littlecroft New 1884 1914 (as
building site) 16
Lynwood Old never? <> Malwood Lodge 1884 1925, 1927 972 25 ample 5 4 1 5 6 n/a Marden New 1898 1928, 1952 1002 8.5 10 10 1 4 4 15 17 Minstead Lodge Old 1924 1047 73 23 23 5 3 1 4 28 n/a Minstead Manor Old 1949
(demolition) 400 n/a
Moonhills New 1904 1951 1059 4 7 7 1 3 1 4 12 n/f Moorhill House Enlarged 1889 1952 1063 2.5 26 26 6 5 5 32 19
New Park Old 1874 65 9 8 17 2 2 20 24 Newtown Park Old 1831, 1850 300 4 9 13 4 1 5 19 24 Northerwood Old 1890, 1893,
1929 1120 101 18 18 4 4 1 5 24 n/a
Oak House New never 19 Ober House New 1912 1915, 1936,
1952 1147 11 12 12 3 3 3 16 n/b
Okefield/The Cottage Cottage 1885 1895 2 4 3 7 2 3 5 13 15 Old House New never 16 Old Mansion, The Cottage 1903 never? 20 Orchard, The New 1898 1900 4 11 11 3 3 15 18 Palace House Enlarged 1872 never n/a Parkhill Enlarged 1861 1885, 1925,
1946 1216 42 16 16 4 4 4 21 <>
Pennerley Lodge Cottage 1850 6 n/b Picket Post New 1909 1923 5 11 11 5 3 3 15 20
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Property Type Date Advertisement date
Source Acres Bedrooms Bath rooms
Other rooms Total rooms
1911 rooms 1 2 Total Reception Other Total
Pylewell House Enlarged never n/a Rhinefield Lodge 1888 1921 35 15 15 several a fine suite
of' 1 6? 17 n/a
Rings, The New 1911 1925, 1933 1314 17 19 19 3 4 1 5 25 27 Rise, The New 1911 never? 14 Riversdale Old 1951, 1954 1315 13.5 7 7 3 4 4 12 16 Rodlease Old 1949 1319 1.5 5 3 8 2 3 3 12 12 Rope Hill Old 1946 8 10 10 11 14 Rosiere/Hawkslease Old 1928, 1935 691 9 10 10 1 4 4 15 28 Roydon Manor Old never n/b Salternshill Cottage 1931 1385 112 7 7 3 3 1 4 12 n/b Setley House Enlarged 1891 1971 18 Shirley Holms Enlarged 1868 1929, 1931 1431 25.5 10 10 1 3 3 14 19 Shrubbs Hill Old n/a 1925 1437 23 12 12 1 2 2 4 17 20 Sowley House Cottage 1899 1964 1796 17 St Austins Old 1920, 1944 2000 15 15 16 22 Stydd House New 1868 1928, 1931 1607 8 12 12 2 3 3 16 n/f Tweed Old 1952 1678 18 9 3 12 3 3 1 4 17 15 Vereley New 1898 1969 90 5 4 9 4 3 3 13 26 Vernalls Old never 10 Vicars Hill House Old 1950 1706 170 16 16 4 5 5 22 32 Vineyards, The New 1907 1939, 1949 1711 10 10 10 3 2 1 3 14 14 Warborne House New 1878 1955 1748 25 6 6 4 4 4 11 n/a Wayside New 1907 1953 1 7 7 2 3 3 11 10 Whitemoor New 1907 never 12 Whitley Ridge Lodge 1931 1813 46 11 11 4 4 1 5 17 n/f Wilverley New 1871 never 58 24 Woodlands Lodge Old 1905 1877 12 5 3 8 2 1 3 12 22 Woodmancote New 1909 1946 2 5 3 8 2 3 3 12 13
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Table C.2. Sizes of ‘new’ and ‘rebuilt’ houses in order of building date.
Property Number of rooms
Number of acres
Burley Manor (1852) 21 254.25
Stydd House (1868) 16 8
Brooklands (1869) 17
Holly Mount (1869) 13
Birds Nest (1871) 10 1
Boldre Grange (1871) 22 208
Wilverley (1871) 24 58
Bramshaw Lodge (1875) 11
Warborne House (1878) 11 25
Camp Hill (1881) 16 2.75
Goldenhayes (1881) 14 74
Hill House (1881) 15 4
Old House (1881) 16
Haskells (1884) 17 3.75
Littlecroft (1884) 16
Annesley (1885) 30 7
Careys (1886) 22 14
Canterton Manor House (1887)
19 158
Blackwater House (1889) 17
Black Knoll (1891) 16 23
Boldre Bridge House (1891) 20 94
Holmwood (1891) 20
Oak House (1891) 19
Broadlands Gate (1892) 13
Property Number of rooms
Number of acres
Allum Green House (1898) 21
Burley Hill (1898) 17 87
Castle Top (1898) 19 35
Cedars, The (1898) 14 2.5
Durham Lodge (1898) 16 1
High Coxlease (1898) 18 34
Hurstly (1898) 18 10
Marden (1898) 17 8.5
Orchard, The (1898) 18 4
Vereley (1898) 26 90
High Croft (1902) 16
Craigellachie (1903) 11 3.5
Culverley (1903) 17 5
Holmehurst (1903) 16 8
Moonhills (1904) 12 4
Woodlands Lodge (1905) 22 12
Abbey Spring (1906) 14 6
Hollowdene (1906) 13
Coxhill Lodge (1907) 16 15
Harford House (1907) 11
Vineyards, The (1907) 14 10
Wayside (1907) 10 1
Whitemoor (1907) 12
Picket Post (1909) 20 5
Woodmancote (1909) 13 2
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Property Number of rooms
Number of acres
Campden House (1910) 15 20
Dock House, The (1911) 15 12
House in the Wood, The (1911)
21
Latchmoor (1911) 17 3.25
Rings, The (1911) 27 17
Rise, The (1911) 14
Drokes, The (1912) 13 14
Ober House (1912) 16 11
Durns House (1915) 15 11
Fountain Court (1915) 21 75
Apple Tree Court (1919) 25 19.25
Little Weirs (1924) 14
Source: Number of rooms is based on the 1911 census, except where it has had to be estimated from sales notice figures. Acreage is based on sales notice figures.
Table C.3. Number of bedrooms by house size (as measured by total rooms in 1911 census).
7 or under 8 to 10
11 to 13
14 to 16
17 or more
Tot-‐al
N % N % N % N % N % N 10 to 14 rooms 6 43 8
57 0 0 0 0 0 0 14
15 to 19 rooms 4 16
12
48 6
24 2 8 1 4 25
20 to 32 rooms 0 0 6
27 6
27 6
27 4 18 22
All houses 10 16 26
43
12
20 8
13 5 8 61
Table C.4. Number of bathrooms by house size (as measured by total rooms in 1911 census).
One bathroom
Two bathrooms
Three bathrooms
4 or more bathrooms
Tot-‐al
N % N % N % N % N 10 to 14 rooms 4 33 6 50 1 8 1 8 12 15 to 19 rooms 4 24 6 35 5 29 2 12 17 20 to 32 rooms 3 19 4 25 2 13 7 44 16 All houses 11 25 11 25 11 25 11 25 44
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Appendix D. House facilities Type: As for Table C.1.
Ldg: Number of lodges, cottages, bungalows or
other residences mentioned in sales notices, or
referred to elsewhere.
Chse: coach houses or garages: number of
vehicles that could be accommodated.
Stb: stables: number of horses that could be
accommodated.
Facilities offered: facilities and other
attractions mentioned in sales notice.
Date: date of building if known.
Architect: name of architect if known.
Architectural style: because styles are so
mixed, and therefore difficult to specify with
precision, illustrations have been provided
where possible; some of these are of a
considerably later date or unknown provenance:
they should therefore only be used as a guide to
the appearance of the house in the period of the
study.
Illustration and photo credits:
HRO 159M88, Index to Hampshire country
houses, 1921-‐55.
Bowden-‐Smith: photographs held by the
NFRL; watercolour of Brockenhurst Lodge in
G. Bowden-‐Smith, ‘Of what I remember of
Lyndhurst, 1850-‐1906’, ms held by NFRL.
P. Campion, The Wessex Series: A recent
history of Hampshire, Wiltshire, and Dorset
(1922).
R. Coles, Messuages and mansions around
Lymington and the New Forest: an A-‐Z
miscellany of local property (1998), color
edition held by NFRL.
M. Girouard, The Victorian Country House
(1971, rev. and enlarged, 1979).
F. Hardcastle, Aspects of a New Forest village:
Records of Burley (rev. and ext. ed., 1987).
W. H. Jacob, Hampshire: At the opening of the
twentieth century, ed. W. T. Pike (1905).
J. Sturgess, Bramshaw within living memory
(2000).
Other photos are credited individually: web
sites were accessed June-‐July 2011.
List: listed building grade (I or II). Further
information about these buildings is available in
The National Heritage List for England
[http://list.english-‐heritage.org.uk], accessed 7
June 2011.
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Table D.1. Houses in alphabetical order, with details of facilities, architecture, and pictures, where available. Property Type Ldg Chse Stb Facilities offered Date Architect Architectural style List Abbey Spring New 1 2 3 Garages; Golf; Hunting;
Maid’s/servants’ room/hall; Pleasure gardens/grounds; Stables; Timbered grounds; Yachting
1906 Tudorbethan
Photo: 159M88/2
Allum Green House
New 1898
Annesley New 3 Billiards room; Garages; Garden house; Kitchen garden; Library; Lounge hall; Orchard; Pasture/meadow; Pleasure gardens/grounds; Stables
1885 Victorian
Photo: Author
Apple Tree Court
New 8 Billiards room; Carriage drive; Garages; Golf; Greenhouses; Lounge hall; Orchard; Parkland; Pleasure gardens/grounds; Stables
1919 Kitchin Arts and Crafts
Photo: 159M88/30
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Property Type Ldg Chse Stb Facilities offered Date Architect Architectural style List Bartley Close Enlarged 2 2 Dressing rooms; Loose boxes;
Orchard; Outbuildings; Timbered grounds
II
Bartley Lodge Enlarged 3 2 9 Billiards room; Dressing rooms; Farmery/Farm; Forest rights; Garages; Hunting; Kitchen garden; Library; Night and day nurseries; Paddock; Parkland; Pleasure gardens/grounds; Stables; Staff accommodation; Tennis lawn/courts; Timbered grounds; Yachting
Georgian
Photo: 159M88/75
II
Bartley Manor Enlarged 6 Arable; Archery ground; Conservatory; Dressing rooms; Forest rights; Kitchen garden; Pasture/meadow; Pleasure gardens/grounds; Stables; Woodland
II
Battramsley House
Old
Beechwood House
Enlarged 3 Conservatory; Farmery/Farm; Forest rights; Greenhouses; Kitchen garden; Library; Maid’s/servants’ room/hall; Outbuildings; Pleasure gardens/grounds; Study
Georgian
Photo: NFRL, Woolley and Wallis sale catalogue
II
125
Property Type Ldg Chse Stb Facilities offered Date Architect Architectural style List Bench House Cottage 1 Dressing rooms; Garages; Lounge hall;
Pleasure gardens/grounds; Stables; Study
1895 Arts and Crafts
Photo: 159M88/106
Birds Nest New 1 2 Conservatory; Kitchen garden; Outbuildings; Pleasure gardens/grounds
1871 Victorian
Photo: Bowden-‐Smith.
Black Knoll New 1 Outbuildings; Parkland; Pasture/meadow
1891 Sir Reginald Blomfield
Edwardian
Photo: 159M88/131.
126
Property Type Ldg Chse Stb Facilities offered Date Architect Architectural style List Blackwater House
New 1889 Victorian
Photo: Author.
Boldre Bridge House
New 1891 Tudorbethan
Photo: Coles, 42.
Boldre Grange New 9 Billiards room; Carriage drive; Croquet; Dressing rooms; Garages; Golf; Hunting; Lake; Maid’s/servants’ room/hall; Outbuildings; Pleasure gardens/grounds; Stables; Tennis lawn/courts; Timbered grounds; Woodland walks; Yachting
1871 Norman Shaw
Tudorbethan
Photo: 159M88/144.
II*
127
Property Type Ldg Chse Stb Facilities offered Date Architect Architectural style List Boldre Hill Old Farmery/Farm Georgian
Photo: Coles, 43.
Bramble Hill Lodge
Lodge 2 Billiards room; Farmery/Farm; Garages; Garden/sun room; Greenhouses; Kitchen garden; Maid’s/servants’ room/hall; Orchard; Pleasure gardens/grounds; Stables
1907 Tudorbethan
Photo: Author.
Bramshaw Hill Old Bramshaw Lodge
New 1875 Victorian
Photo: Author.
128
Property Type Ldg Chse Stb Facilities offered Date Architect Architectural style List Broadlands Gate
New 1892 Arts and Crafts
Photo: www.broadlandsgate.co.uk.
Brockenhurst House
Enlarged 1860-‐1900
Thomas Henry Wyatt
French chateau
Photo: /lh.matthewbeckett.com/houses/lh_hampshire_brockenhurstpark_info_gallery.html.
Brockenhurst Lodge
Old Traditional/Jacobean
Illustration: Bowden-‐Smith.
129
Property Type Ldg Chse Stb Facilities offered Date Architect Architectural style List Brooklands New 1869 Georgian
Photo: Author.
Brookley House
Old
Burley Beacon Enlarged 1 3 Garages; Kitchen garden; Lounge hall; Maid’s/servants’ room/hall; Outbuildings; Pleasure gardens/grounds; Tennis lawn/courts
Georgian?
Photo: 159M88/225.
Burley Grange Cottage 1 1 8 Carriage drive; Dressing rooms; Garages; Kitchen garden; Paddock; Pleasure gardens/grounds; Stables; Tennis lawn/courts; Timbered grounds
Georgian
Photo: Hardcastle, 191.
130
Property Type Ldg Chse Stb Facilities offered Date Architect Architectural style List Burley Hill New 8 Arable; Farmery/Farm; Garages;
Kitchen garden; Orchard; Outbuildings; Pasture/meadow; Pleasure gardens/grounds; Stables; Tennis lawn/courts; Timbered grounds
1898 Queen Anne
Photo: 159M88/226.
Burley Lodge Lodge 2 3 Garages; Kitchen garden; Lounge hall; Maid’s/servants’ room/hall; Outbuildings; Pasture/meadow; Pleasure gardens/grounds; Stables
Burley Manor New 3 6 6 Billiards room; Dressing rooms; Farmery/Farm; Garages; Kitchen garden; Lake; Outbuildings; Paddock; Parkland; Pleasure gardens; Stables; Staff accommodation; Tennis lawn/courts; Timbered grounds
1852 Tudorbethan
Photo: 159M88/227.
II
131
Property Type Ldg Chse Stb Facilities offered Date Architect Architectural style List Burnford House
Enlarged 4 Dressing rooms; Garages; Kitchen garden; Library; Loggia; Pasture/meadow; Pleasure gardens/grounds; Shooting; Stables
Georgian
Photo: Sturgess, 30.
Cadlands Enlarged 100 7 10 Farmery/Farm; Garages; Pleasure gardens/grounds; Stables; Woodland
Jeffry Wyattville1837-‐38
Neoclassical
Photo: lh.matthewbeckett.com/houses/ lh_hampshire_cadlandhouse _gallery.html.
Camp Hill New Garages; Greenhouses; Kitchen garden; Lounge hall; Maid’s/servants’ room/hall; Outbuildings; Paddock; Pleasure gardens; Pleasure gardens/grounds; Stables
1881 Tudorbethan
159M88/243.
132
Property Type Ldg Chse Stb Facilities offered Date Architect Architectural style List Campden House
New 2 4 3 Carriage drive; Croquet; Garages; Golf; Hunting; Kitchen garden; Loose boxes; Maid’s/servants’ room/hall; Orchard; Paddock; Pleasure gardens/grounds; Tennis lawn/courts
1910 Queen Anne
Photo: 159M88/242.
Canterton Manor House
New 6 Kitchen garden; Pasture/meadow; Pleasure gardens/grounds; Woodland
1887 Edwardian
Photo: 159M88/246.
Careys New 1 1 1 Garages; Golf; Hunting; Pleasure gardens/grounds; Shooting; Stables; Yachting
1886 Tudorbethan
Photo: Coles, 64.
133
Property Type Ldg Chse Stb Facilities offered Date Architect Architectural style List Castle Malwood Enlarged 3 Billiards room; Cricket ground;
Dressing rooms; Farmery/Farm; Pasture/meadow; Stables; Staff accommodation; Swimming pool; Tennis lawn/courts
1892 Mr H. Watson, ARIBA, of Farnham
Tudorbethan
Photo: Author.
Castle Top New 1 Stables; Woodland 1898 Arts and Crafts
Photo: 159M88/255.
Cedars, The New 3+ Conservatory; Covered squash racquet court; Croquet; Dressing rooms; Fishing; Golf; Greenhouses; Hunting; Shooting; Tennis lawn/courts; Timbered grounds
1898
134
Property Type Ldg Chse Stb Facilities offered Date Architect Architectural style List Coxhill Lodge New 1 2 2 Dressing rooms; Farmery/Farm;
Forest rights; Garages; Greenhouses; Loggia; Lounge hall; Maid’s/servants’ room/hall; Outbuildings; Pleasure gardens/grounds; Stables; Staff accommodation
1907 Tudorbethan
Photo: 159M88/373.
Craigellachie New Garages; Golf; Maid’s/servants’ room/hall; Stables; Staff accommodation
1903
Cuffnells Old 3 Dressing rooms; Farmery/Farm; Garages; Greenhouses; Kitchen garden; Outbuildings; Parkland; Pleasure gardens/grounds; Stables; Timbered grounds
Georgian
Photo: Bowden-‐Smith.
Culverley, Brockenhurst
New 1 3 Dressing rooms; Garages; Kitchen garden; Parkland; Pleasure gardens/grounds; Sporting; Stables; Tennis lawn/courts; Timbered grounds
1903 Edwardian
Photo: 159M88/400.
135
Property Type Ldg Chse Stb Facilities offered Date Architect Architectural style List Dilamgerbendi Insula
Old Georgian
Illustration: Hardcastle, 132.
Dock House, The
New 2 Garages; Tennis lawn/courts; Yachting 1911 Arts and Crafts
Photo: 159M88/430.
Drokes, The New Dressing rooms; Kitchen garden; Orchard; Pasture/meadow; Swimming pool; Tennis lawn/courts; Yachting
1912 Edwardian
Photo: Coles, 71: photographed by E. Mudge in 1913.
136
Property Type Ldg Chse Stb Facilities offered Date Architect Architectural style List Durham Lodge New 1898 Victorian
Photo: Author.
Durmast Hill Old 3 6 Farmery/Farm; Pleasure gardens/grounds; Stables; Timbered grounds
Georgian
Photo: Hardcastle, 188.
Durns House New 1 Garages; Pleasure gardens/grounds; Staff accommodation; Yachting
1915 Edwardian
Photo: 159M88/465.
137
Property Type Ldg Chse Stb Facilities offered Date Architect Architectural style List Elcombes Enlarged Dressing rooms; Garages; Golf;
Hunting; Orchard; Stables 1870 William and Mary
Photo: Bowden-‐Smith.
II
Exbury House New 1920 Neoclassical
Photo: Author.
II*
Forest Bank Old Georgian
Photo: Bowden-‐Smith.
138
Property Type Ldg Chse Stb Facilities offered Date Architect Architectural style List Forest Lodge, Hythe
Old 5 Arable; Billiards room; Farmery/Farm; Kitchen garden; Lake; Pleasure gardens; Woodland
Georgian
Photo: 159M88/556.
Forest Lodge, Lyndhurst
Old 7 3 Carriage drive; Fishing; Garages; Golf; Hunting; Kitchen garden; Outbuildings; Paddock; Pleasure gardens/grounds; Shooting; Staff accommodation; Timbered grounds; Yachting
Georgian
Photo: Bowden-‐Smith.
Fountain Court New 4 Farmery/Farm; Garages; Kitchen garden; Parkland; Pleasure gardens/grounds; Stables
1915 George Herbert Kitchin (1870-‐1951)
Arts and Crafts
Photo: 159M88/559.
II
139
Property Type Ldg Chse Stb Facilities offered Date Architect Architectural style List Foxlease Enlarged 6 6 Dressing rooms; Farmery/Farm;
Fishing; Garages; Golf; Hunting; Parkland; Pleasure gardens/grounds; Stables; Timbered grounds; Yachting
n/a Georgian
Photo: Bowden-‐Smith.
II*
Fritham House Cottage 5 9 6 Billiards room; Farmery/Farm; Garages; Loggia; Pleasure gardens/grounds; Stables; Staff accommodation
Cottage?
Photo: 159M88/570
Fritham Lodge Old 1 Traditional/Jacobean
Photo: Author
II
Frogmore House
Old
140
Property Type Ldg Chse Stb Facilities offered Date Architect Architectural style List Gascoignes Old 1 Conservatory; Excellent society;
Fishing; Golf; Hunting; Kitchen garden; Paddock; Pleasure gardens/grounds; Shooting; Stables
Gilbury Hard Cottage 1908 Cottage
Photo: Campion, 93.
Glasshayes Cottage Conservatory; Garden house; Kitchen garden; Maid’s/servants’ room/hall; Stables; Staff accommodation
1862-‐1895
Tudorbethan
Photo: NFRL Sale Catalogue.
Goldenhayes New 3 4 Dressing rooms; Farmery/Farm; Garages; Hunting; Parkland; Pasture/meadow; Pleasure gardens/grounds; Stables; Timbered grounds
1881 Georgian
Photo: 159M88/614.
Harford House New 1907
141
Property Type Ldg Chse Stb Facilities offered Date Architect Architectural style List Haskells New 2 4 Carriage drive; Kitchen garden;
Paddock; Pleasure gardens/grounds; Stables; Tennis lawn/courts
1884 Georgian
Photo: The Times, 6 July 1923.
High Coxlease New 3 Garages; Kitchen garden; Lounge hall; Paddock; Pleasure gardens/grounds; Stables; Woodland
1898 W. R. Lethaby
Arts and Crafts
Photo:159M88/731.
II*
High Croft New 1902 Arts and Crafts
Photo: Hardcastle, 193.
Hill House New 1 Dressing rooms; Greenhouses; Kitchen garden; Lounge hall
1881
142
Property Type Ldg Chse Stb Facilities offered Date Architect Architectural style List Hilltop House Old Traditional/Jacobean
Photo: www.mouseprice.com/property-‐for-‐sale/ref-‐11555427/beaulieu+brock enhurst+hampshire, 12 June 2012.
II
Hincheslea House
Old Neoclassical
Photo: Coles, 99.
143
Property Type Ldg Chse Stb Facilities offered Date Architect Architectural style List Hollowdene/ Sunnycote
New 1906 Tudorbethan
Photo: Bowden-‐Smith.
Holly Mount New 1869 Holmehurst New Golf; Pleasure gardens/grounds 1903 Tudorbethan
Photo: Author.
Holmfield Old A mixture
Photo: Bowden-‐Smith.
144
Property Type Ldg Chse Stb Facilities offered Date Architect Architectural style List Holmwood New 1891 Victorian
Photo: Author.
House in the Wood, The
New 2 4 Golf; Outbuildings; Pleasure gardens; Shooting (1,800 acres incl. wild-‐fowl); Staff accommodation
1911
Photo: 159M88/794
Hurstly New 4 4 Billiards room; Garages; Greenhouses; Outbuildings; Paddock; Parkland; Pleasure gardens/grounds
1898 [Lodge is Victorian].
Inchmery House
Enlarged 1 Garages; Kitchen garden; Paddock; Pleasure gardens; Pleasure gardens/grounds
1907 Georgian
Photo: 159M88/804.
145
Property Type Ldg Chse Stb Facilities offered Date Architect Architectural style List Ladycross Lodge
Lodge 2 Billiards room; Carriage drive; Dressing rooms; Garages; Golf; Hunting; Lounge hall; Pasture/meadow; Pleasure gardens/grounds; Stables; Staff accommodation; Tennis lawn/courts; Woodland; Yachting
1878 Guy Dawber
Tudorbethan
Photo: Author.
Latchmoor New 1 4 6 Carriage drive; Farmery/Farm; Fishing; Garages; Garden/sun room; Golf; Hunting; Library; Loose boxes; Paddock; Shooting; Stables; Tennis lawn/courts; Yachting
1911 Arts and Crafts
Photo: 159M88/873.
II
Lepe House Cottage 1910 Traditional/Jacobean?
Photo: (1905) Coles, 112.
146
Property Type Ldg Chse Stb Facilities offered Date Architect Architectural style List Little Weirs New 2 Garages; Library; Loggia;
Maid’s/servants’ room/hall; Pleasure gardens/grounds; Tennis lawn/courts
1924 Paul Phipps
Arts and Crafts
Photo: 159M88/920
Littlecroft New 1884 Ernest, George and Peto
Tudorbethan
Illustration: British Architect, 17 Dec. 1886, drawing by T. Raffles.
Lynwood Old Malwood Lodge 2+ Farmery/Farm; Garages; Lounge hall;
Stables 1884 Ewan
Christian Tudorbethan
Photo: Girouard, 412.
II
147
Property Type Ldg Chse Stb Facilities offered Date Architect Architectural style List Marden New 2 Carriage drive; Dressing rooms;
Garages; Garden house; Pleasure gardens/grounds; Stables
1898
Photo: 159M88/1002.
Minstead Lodge Old 7 11 Dressing rooms; Farmery/Farm; Forest rights; Garages; Golf; Hunting; Lounge hall; Parkland; Pleasure gardens/grounds; Stables; Timbered grounds; Yachting
Tudorbethan
Photo: 159M88/1047.
II
Minstead Manor
Old Neoclassical
Photo: Bowden-‐Smith.
148
Property Type Ldg Chse Stb Facilities offered Date Architect Architectural style List Moonhills New 2 Dressing rooms; Greenhouses; Lounge
hall; Pleasure gardens/grounds; Staff accommodation
1904 Tudorbethan
Photo: 159M88/1059.
Moorhill House Enlarged Pleasure gardens/grounds; Staff accommodation
1889 Traditional/Jacobean
Photo: (1930s), Hardcastle, 201.
New Park Old 7 Dressing rooms; Greenhouses; Loose boxes; Maid’s/servants’ room/hall; Outbuildings; Pleasure gardens/grounds
Traditional/Jacobean
Photo: Bowden-‐Smith
II
149
Property Type Ldg Chse Stb Facilities offered Date Architect Architectural style List Newtown Park Old 2 12 Dressing rooms; Garages;
Greenhouses; Kitchen garden; Library; Pasture/meadow; Pleasure gardens/grounds; Stables; Woodland walks
Neoclassical
Photo: Coles,161, Newtown Park in the 1950s.
II*
Northerwood Old 5 Billiards; Conservatory; Dressing rooms; Farmery/Farm; Garages; Golf; Greenhouses; Hunting; Kitchen garden; Loggia; Parkland; Pleasure gardens/grounds; Shooting; Stables; Tennis lawn/courts; Yachting
J. Nash Georgian
Photo: Bowden-‐Smith
II
Oak House New 1890s Victorian
Photo: Author
150
Property Type Ldg Chse Stb Facilities offered Date Architect Architectural style List Ober House New 5 Golf; Hunting; Paddock; Pleasure
gardens/grounds; Shooting; Staff accommodation; Yachting
1912 Tudorbethan
Photo: Coles, 166.
Okefield/The Cottage
Cottage 1 2 Conservatory; Dressing rooms; Kitchen garden; Maid’s/servants’ room/hall; Outbuildings; Pleasure gardens/grounds; Stables; Study
1885 Cottage
Photo: Bowden-‐Smith
Old House New 1881 Victorian
Photo: Hardcastle, 125
151
Property Type Ldg Chse Stb Facilities offered Date Architect Architectural style List Old Mansion, The
Cottage 1903 Traditional/Jacobean
Photo: P. Campion, The Wessex Series: A recent history of Hampshire, Wiltshire, and Dorset (1922), 47.
II
Orchard, The New 1898 Palace House Enlarged 1872 A.
Blomfield Tudorbethan
Photo: www.beaulieu.co.uk/ attractions/palace-‐house/beaulieu-‐estate-‐a-‐year-‐in-‐pictures
I
Parkhill Enlarged 3 Dressing rooms; Farmery/Farm; Garages; Kitchen garden; Lake; Parkland; Pleasure gardens/grounds; Stables; Staff accommodation; Timbered grounds
1861 Georgian
Photo: Bowden-‐Smith
Pennerley Lodge
Cottage 1 1 4 Farmery/Farm; Garages; Kitchen garden; Loose boxes; Pasture/meadow; Pleasure gardens/grounds; Stables
II
152
Property Type Ldg Chse Stb Facilities offered Date Architect Architectural style List Picket Post New 2 10 Dressing rooms; Fishing; Forest rights;
Golf; Hunting; Pleasure gardens/grounds; Staff accommodation; Swimming pool
1909 Georgian?
Photo: Hardcastle, 136
Pylewell House Enlarged William and Mary
Photo: Jacob, 35.
II*
Rhinefield Lodge several
ample
Billiards room; Croquet; Dressing rooms; Golf; Hunting; Kitchen garden; Lake; Maid’s/servants’ room/hall; Orchard; Pleasure gardens/grounds; Staff accommodation; Tennis lawn/courts; Timbered grounds
1888 Romaine-‐Walker & Tanner
Tudorbethan
Photo: Girouard, 416
II*
153
Property Type Ldg Chse Stb Facilities offered Date Architect Architectural style List Rings, The New 1 2 Carriage drive; Fishing; Golf;
Greenhouses; Kitchen garden; Lake; Lounge hall; Outbuildings; Pleasure gardens/grounds; Tennis lawn/courts; Woodland walks; Yachting
1911 Tudorbethan
Photo: 159M88/1314
Rise, The New 1911 Riversdale Old 1 Maid’s/servants’ room/hall; Kitchen
garden; Paddock; Woodland; Parkland; Pleasure gardens/grounds; Garages; Outbuildings
Georgian
Photo: 159M88/1315
Rodlease Old 2 Yachting; Stables Georgian
Photo: 159M88/1319
II
154
Property Type Ldg Chse Stb Facilities offered Date Architect Architectural style List Rope Hill Old Georgian
Photo: Paton’s List of Schools (unknown date)
II
Rosiere Old Croquet; Dressing rooms; Garages; Kitchen garden; Paddock; Pleasure gardens; Pleasure gardens/grounds; Stables; Tennis lawn/courts
Georgian
Photo: Bowden-‐Smith
Roydon Manor Old Traditional/Jacobean
Photo: R. B. Pepper in Hampshire, Oct. 1973.
II
155
Property Type Ldg Chse Stb Facilities offered Date Architect Architectural style List Salternshill Cottage 1 Billiards room; Farmery/Farm;
Garages; Pleasure gardens/grounds; Pasture/meadow; Yachting
Traditional?
Photo: 159M88/1386
Setley House Enlarged 1891 Shirley Holms Enlarged 3 Dressing rooms; Garages; Kitchen
garden; Maid’s/servants’ room/hall; Pasture/meadow; Pleasure gardens/grounds; Stables; Tennis lawn/courts; Timbered grounds
1868 Victorian
Photo: 159M88/1431.
Shrubbs Hill Old 2 Billiards room; Farmery/Farm; Garages; Kitchen garden; Lounge hall; Pasture/meadow; Pleasure gardens/grounds; Stables; Tennis lawn/courts; Woodland walks
n/a Georgian
Photo: 159M88/1437.
Sowley House Cottage 4 Farmery/Farm; Woodland 1899 St Austins Old
156
Property Type Ldg Chse Stb Facilities offered Date Architect Architectural style List Stydd House New 2 2 Croquet; Dressing rooms; Fishing;
Garages; Golf; Greenhouses; Hunting; Kitchen garden; Maid’s/servants’ room/hall; Parkland; Pleasure gardens/grounds; Shooting; Stables; Staff accommodation; Tennis lawn/courts; Yachting
1868 Tudorbethan
Photo: 159M88/1607
II
Tweed Old 1 4 Farmery/Farm; Garages; Lounge hall; Outbuildings; Pasture/meadow; Pleasure gardens/grounds; Staff accommodation; Timbered grounds
Georgian
Photo: 159M88/1678
Vereley New 4 Dressing rooms; Farmery/Farm; Pleasure gardens/grounds; Tennis lawn/courts; Woodland
1898 Edwardian
Photo: Hardcastle. 229
Vernalls Old
157
Property Type Ldg Chse Stb Facilities offered Date Architect Architectural style List Vicars Hill House
Old 5 Dressing rooms; Farmery/Farm; Garages; Pleasure gardens/grounds; Sporting; Stables; Staff accommodation; Timbered grounds; Yachting
Georgian
Photo: Coles, 221.
II
Vineyards, The New 1 2 Dressing rooms; Garages; Golf; Hunting; Lounge hall; Maid’s/servants’ room/hall; Outbuildings; Paddock; Pleasure gardens/grounds; Tennis lawn/courts; Woodland; Yachting
1907 ?
Photo: 159M88/1711
Warborne House
Rebuilt Dressing rooms; Lake; Parkland; Pasture/meadow; Pleasure gardens/grounds; Staff accommodation
1878 Georgian
Photo: 159M88/1748
158
Property Type Ldg Chse Stb Facilities offered Date Architect Architectural style List Wayside New 2 Garages; Greenhouses;
Maid’s/servants’ room/hall; Pleasure gardens/grounds
1907 Edwardian
Photo: 159M88/1739
Whitemoor New 1907 Edwardian
Photo: Coles, 52.
Whitley Ridge Lodge 4 Dressing rooms; Garages; Greenhouses; Kitchen garden; Pasture/meadow; Pleasure gardens/grounds; Shooting; Stables; Staff accommodation; Study; Tennis lawn/courts; Woodland
Georgian
Photo: Author.
159
Property Type Ldg Chse Stb Facilities offered Date Architect Architectural style List Wilverley New 1871 Georgian
Photo: Bowden-‐Smith.
Woodlands Lodge
Rebuilt 1 large 3 Carriage drive; Farmery/Farm; Greenhouses; Kitchen garden; Library; Loose boxes; Outbuildings; Parkland; Pleasure gardens/grounds; Stables; Timbered grounds
1905 Georgian
Photo: Author
Woodmancote New 2+ 1909 Victorian
Photo: Coles, 52.
160
Table D.2. Facilities advertised.
Old country house Old country house, enlarged
Lodge, enlarged Enlarged cottage or farm
New house Total
N % N % N % N % N % N % Servants’ hall, servant’s room or maid’s room
1 5 2 12 3 60 2 33 6 15 14 16
Library 2 10 3 18 0 0 0 0 3 8 8 9 Study 0 0 1 6 1 20 2 33 0 0 4 5 Lounge hall 3 15 1 6 3 60 1 17 9 23 17 19 Billiards room 3 15 3 18 3 60 2 33 4 10 15 17 Garden room 0 0 0 0 1 20 0 0 1 3 2 2 Conservatory 1 5 3 18 0 0 2 33 2 5 8 9 Loggia 0 0 2 12 0 0 1 17 2 5 5 6 Garage 10 50 10 59 5 100 5 83 23 58 53 60 Stables 11 55 11 65 5 100 6 100 17 43 50 57 Loose boxes 2 10 2 12 0 0 0 0 2 5 6 7 Outdoor staff accommodation 6 30 2 12 3 60 3 50 8 20 22 25 Outbuildings 7 35 3 18 1 20 1 17 10 25 22 25 Pleasure gardens 15 75 12 71 5 100 5 83 25 63 62 70 Timbered grounds 8 40 5 29 1 20 1 17 6 15 21 24 Kitchen garden 11 55 9 53 4 80 4 67 13 33 41 47 Greenhouses 4 20 2 12 2 40 0 0 10 25 18 20 Garden house 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 17 2 5 3 3 Tennis court 3 15 6 35 3 60 1 17 13 33 26 30 Swimming pool 1 5 1 6 0 0 0 0 1 3 3 3 Parkland 6 30 3 18 0 0 0 0 8 20 17 19 Woodland 4 20 2 12 2 40 1 17 7 18 16 18 ‘Farmery’ or Farm 10 50 7 41 2 40 4 67 6 15 29 33 Orchard 0 0 2 12 2 40 0 0 5 13 9 10 Paddock 5 25 3 18 0 0 1 17 7 18 16 18 Lake 3 15 0 0 1 20 0 0 3 8 7 8 Pasture 3 15 4 24 3 60 2 33 7 18 19 22 Arable 1 5 1 6 0 0 0 0 1 3 3 3 Forest rights 2 10 3 18 0 0 0 0 1 3 6 7 Carriage drive 2 10 1 6 1 20 1 17 6 15 11 13 Sporting 0 0 1 6 0 0 0 0 1 3 2 2 Fishing 3 15 1 6 0 0 0 0 4 10 8 9 Hunting 4 20 4 24 2 40 0 0 10 25 20 23
161
Old country house Old country house, enlarged
Lodge, enlarged Enlarged cottage or farm
New house Total
N % N % N % N % N % N % Shooting 2 10 2 12 1 20 0 0 6 15 11 13 Golf 4 20 3 18 2 40 0 0 14 35 23 26 Yachting 3 15 4 24 1 20 1 17 11 28 20 23 Woodland walks 2 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 5 4 5 Cricket ground 0 0 1 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 Archery ground 0 0 1 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 Croquet lawn 1 5 0 0 1 20 0 0 3 8 5 6 Covered squash racquet court 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 1 1 Total for which details are known
29 16 6 6 42 92
Total 33 19 6 11 60 128
162
Appendix E. Residents and their property Table E. 1 includes an entry for each person, for each property
with which they were associated. It also includes some entries
for incidences of the properties being advertised for sale, to let,
or sold. Start and End dates are simply the first and last dates
for which there is evidence that the person was associated with
the property: they may have been associated with it before or
afterwards.
Ages at start and end date have been calculated for those whose
dates of birth are known. Again, these are only approximate
indications of the ages at which the person began or ended their
association with the property.
n/k = ‘not known’
Table E.1 Residents and property Name Property Start
date End date
Age at start date
Age at end date
Date of
birth
Place of birth Date of death
Place of death
Acheson, Archibald, Rt Hon. 4th Earl of Gosford, KP
Minstead Lodge 1889 1889 48 48 1841 n/k 1922 n/k
Aide, Georgina Emma M., Mrs Forest Bank 1871 1875 80 84 1791 London 1875 Portsea Island Aide, Hamilton, Capt. Forest Bank 1862 1875 31 44 1831 France n/k n/k Aitchison, Catherine, Mrs (later Lady Codrington)
Minstead Manor 1861 1861 47 47 1814 Minstead? 1880 New Forest
Aitchison, Catherine, Mrs (later Lady Codrington)
Shrubbs Hill 1878 1878 64 64 1814 Minstead? 1880 New Forest
Aitchison, Constance Fanny, Mrs Shrubbs Hill 1901 1923 42 64 1859 Lyndhurst n/k n/k Aitchison, Henry Compton, Capt. Shrubbs Hill 1881 1901 37 57 1844 Burley n/k n/k Alexander, Herbert George, Old Mansion, The 1903 1937 40 74 1863 Middlesex Stoke
Newington n/k n/k
Alexander, Meriel, Miss Boldre Hill 1915 1915 22 22 1893 Fordwich, Kent n/k n/k Anstie, James, QC Moorhill House 1889 1899 53 63 1836 n/k 1924 n/k
163
Name Property Start date
End date
Age at start date
Age at end date
Date of
birth
Place of birth Date of death
Place of death
Arderne, David Davies, Lt.Col. Warborne House 1920 1923 99 102 1821 Montgomeryshire n/k n/k Aris, Herbert, Major, MA, FRGS, JP Northerwood 1935 1935 67 67 1868 n/k 1952 n/k Armstrong, George Medlicott, Capt. OBE
Burnford House 1920 1942 54 76 1866 n/k 1942 BurNew Forestord House
Ashworth, Frederick C., Esq. Rope Hill 1871 1871 41 41 1830 Middx n/k n/k Askew, Henry William, Esq. Pylewell House 1873 1880 65 72 1808 n/k 1890 n/k Bagot, Gertrude Letitia, Mrs Ladycross Lodge 1871 1878 38 45 1833 South Africa 1898 London,
Kensington Bailey, Henry Francis, Oak House 1891 1916 60 85 1831 Thorney Fen.
Cambridgeshire 1916 Lymington
Baillie-‐Hamilton, Arthur Charles, Rev. & Hon., MA, JP
Burley Lodge 1898 1910 60 72 1838 Scotland 1910 n/k
Baillie-‐Hamilton, Margaret, Miss Burley Lodge 1901 1915 32 46 1869 Knightsbridge n/k n/k Baring, Eleanor Mary, Miss Durmast Hill 1907 1918? 30 n/k 1877 Regents Park, London n/k n/k Baring, Hugo, Major the Hon., OBE Battramsley House 1919 1923 43 47 1876 n/k 1949 n/k Barker-‐Hahlo, Herman, BA, Cantab Foxlease 1901 1911 27 37 1874 Manchester 1972 Guernsey Barret, Charles J. M., Burley Grange 1871 1871 55 55 1816 Herefordshire n/k n/k Barton, Charles Cutts, gent. Rope Hill 1861 1867 59 65 1802 Middx 1894 Romsey Bellone, Julia J, Oak House 1891 1901 38 48 1853 Brockenhurst n/k n/k Benett, William Morgan, Mr Fritham House 1861 1889 48 76 1813 n/k 1891 Lyme Regis Blaker, Walter Campbell, Forest Bank 1885 1889 36 40 1849 Rayne, Essex 1922 Croydon, Surrey Bois, Percy, Esq. Boldre Grange 1920 1921 64 65 1856 n/k 1946 Woodend, Liss Bolton, Hubert Ernest Laugtree, Capt.
House in the Wood, The 1915 1923 42 50 1873 Lancs 1941 Surrey
Bowden-‐Smith, Frederick Hermann, Revd
Careys 1898 1919 56 77 1842 Neu.... on Rhine, Germany
1919 Christchurch
Bowden-‐Smith, Georgina, Mrs Vernalls 1885 1903 64 82 1821 Corhampton n/k n/k Bowden-‐Smith, Harriet Charlotte, Mrs
Careys 1920 1923 72 75 1848 Newick, Sussex n/k n/k
Bowden-‐Smith, Henry, JP Black Knoll 1891 1925 56 90 1835 Brockenhurst Hants 1925 Lymington Bowden-‐Smith, Nathaniel, Esq. Careys 1853 1886 55 88 1798 n/k 1886 Lymington Bowden-‐Smith, Richard, Esq. Vernalls 1856 1871 55 70 1801 Brockenhurst 1881 New Forest Bowden-‐Smith, Walter Baird, Vernalls 1907 1923 56 72 1851 Crickhowell
Brecknockshire 1932 New Forest
Bowden-‐Smith, Walter Baird, Vernalls 1911 1932 60 81 1851 Crickhowell Brecknockshire
1932 New Forest
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Bowes Lyon, Francis, Hon. Northerwood 1914 1918 58 62 1856 n/k 1948 Ridley Hall, NÕumberland
Bowes Lyon, Francis, Hon. Malwood 1922 1923 66 67 1856 n/k 1948 Ridley Hall, NÕumberland
Bowes-‐Lyon, Malcolm, Lt-‐Col., Hon. Whitley Ridge 1923 1923 49 49 1874 Richmond, Surrey 1957 n/k Bradburne, Frederick Ashe, JP Bramshaw Lodge 1907 1925 69 87 1838 Binstead, Sussex 1925 n/k Bradburne, Laura Sophia, Miss Bramshaw Lodge 1881 1923 39 81 1842 Chichester, Sussex 1923 n/k Bradburne, Laura, Mrs Bramshaw Lodge 1875 1885 66 76 1809 St Vincent, West
Indies 1885 New Forest
Braddon, Mary Elizabeth, Miss (Mrs Maxwell)
Annesley 1885 1907 50 72 1835 London 1915 Lichfield House, Richmond
Braun, Charles William Herbert, Sowley House 1899 1907 31 39 1868 Liverpool, Lancashire n/k n/k Bridger, Lowther, Esq. Bench House 1895 1923 54 82 1841 Chelsea n/k n/k Brine, Augustus James, Revd Boldre Hill 1859 1878 54 73 1805 West Lulworth,
Dorset n/k n/k
Brine, George, Capt. (later, Admiral) Rope Hill 1832 1832 47 47 1785 St Mary Blandford, Dorset
1864 Richmond, Surrey
Brooke, Augusta, Mrs Okefield/The Cottage 1881 1881 67 67 1814 n/k n/k n/k Bryan, Edward Willoughby, Mr Bartley Close 1881 1881 36 36 1845 Hants n/k n/k Bryan, Edward Willoughby, Mr Haskells 1884 1884 39 39 1845 Hants n/k n/k Bryan, Edward Willoughby, Mr Birds Nest 1895 1897 50 52 1845 Hants n/k n/k Buckland, Elizabeth, Mrs Marden 1901 1911 38 48 1863 Belgium n/k n/k Buckland, Francis O., Marden 1898 1903 40 45 1858 Notting Hill, London n/k n/k Bulley, John Blagrave, Esq. Holly Mount 1859 1863 53 57 1806 Reading, Bucks [sic] 1864 New Forest Burrard, Louisa, Lady Holmfield 1871 1871 69 69 1802 London n/k n/k Burrard, Louisa, Lady Holmfield 1875 1881 73 79 1802 London n/k n/k Burton, Blanche C., Mrs Shirley Holms 1915 1915 67 67 1848 Paddington 1930 Lymington Burton, William Henry, Col. Shirley Holms 1881 1911 45 75 1836 Northants Daventry 1914 Lymington Bushman, Henry Augustus, Major-‐General, Sir, K.C.B.
Birds Nest 1901 1906 60 65 1841 Sheffield 1930 Okefield
Bushman, Henry Augustus, Major-‐General, Sir, K.C.B.
Okefield/The Cottage 1911 1930 70 89 1841 Sheffield 1930 Okefield
Cameron, Aylmer S., Colonel, CB, VC Holmfield 1889 1895 56 62 1833 n/k 1909 Alvara, Alverstoke, Hants[?]
Campbell, Isabella, Mrs Pennerley Lodge 1918 1918 76 76 1842 n/k 1929 Lymington Carlyon, Gerald Winstanley, Cedars, The 1898 1899 52 53 1846 Mevagissey 1924 Lymington
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Carlyon, Gerald Winstanley, The Rise 1911 1911 65 65 1846 Mevagissey 1924 Lymington Carlyon, Gerald Winstanley, The Rise 1911 1924 65 78 1846 Mevagissey 1924 Lymington Carnegie, David John, 10th Earl of Northesk
Whitley Ridge 1914 1921 49 56 1865 n/k 1921 n/k
Carnegie, David John, 10th Earl of Northesk
Minstead Lodge 1920 1921 55 56 1865 n/k 1921 n/k
Carnegie, David Ludovic George Hopetoun, 11th Earl of Northesk
Minstead Lodge 1921 1924 20 23 1901 n/k 1963 n/k
Caulfield, Algernon Thomas St. George,
Foxlease 1871 1871 1 1 1870 n/k 1933 London, Chelsea
Caulfield, Algernon Thomas St. George,
Vicars Hill House 1889 1920 19 50 1870 n/k 1933 London, Chelsea
Cave, Edith Florence, Miss Riversdale 1911 1920 33 42 1878 Boldre n/k n/k Cave, Margaret Blanche, Miss Riversdale 1911 1920 42 51 1869 Boldre n/k n/k Chapman, Frank Emerson, Fritham House 1898 1907 33 42 1865 Horncastle, Lincs n/k n/k Chawner, Frances Sarah, Mrs Forest Bank 1895 1925 53 83 1842 Reading, Berkshire 1925 New Forest Churchill, Edward Spencer, Lord Bartley Manor 1876 1876 23 23 1853 n/k 1911 n/k Clarke, William John, CBE Wayside 1923 1935 66 78 1857 Haddenham, Bucks 1937? Ledbury,
Herefordshire? Close, Granville, Col., R.E. St Austins 1871 1875 43 47 1828 Gloucestershire n/k n/k Clough, Arthur Hugh, Castle Top 1898 1943 38 83 1860 London 1943 Salisbury, Wiltshire Clough, Blanche Athena, Miss Burley Hill 1907 1923 45 61 1862 Surrey Kingston on
Thames n/k n/k
Coke, Thomas William, 4th Earl of Leicester (Viscount Coke)
Sowley House 1915 1923 35 43 1880 n/k 1949 n/k
Compton, Francis, MP, MA, DCL, JP Minstead Manor 1871 1885 47 61 1824 Middx 1915 New Forest Compton, Francis, MP, MA, DCL, JP Blackwater House 1889 1915 65 91 1824 Middx 1915 New Forest Compton, George, Pennerley Lodge 1908 1918 35 45 1873 Minstead n/k n/k Compton, George, Holly Mount 1923 1923 50 50 1873 Minstead n/k n/k Compton, Harriet, Mrs Minstead Manor 1871 1895 27 51 1844 Willesbourne 1909 n/k Compton, Henry Combe, Esq. Minstead Manor 1832 1866 44 78 1788 Bisterne 1866 New Forest Compton, Henry Francis, Esq. Minstead Manor 1891 1935 19 63 1872 Minstead 1943 n/k Compton, Henry, DL Minstead Manor 1866 1878 52 64 1814 Minstead 1871x1881? n/k Connell, Arthur Knatchbull, Broadlands Gate 1901 1901 50 50 1851 Nutfield Redhill
Surrey 1914 Lymington
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Connell, Arthur Knatchbull, Orchard, The 1903 1914 52 63 1851 Nutfield Redhill Surrey
1914 Lymington
Connell, Margaret W., Mrs Orchard, The 1914 1925 69 80 1845 St Marylebone London
1925 Lymington
Cook, Wyndham F., Mrs Ladycross Lodge 1914 1925 58 69 1856 n/k 1925 n/k Coote, Stanley Victor, Esq. Burley Manor 1907 1907 44 44 1863 n/k 1925 n/k Cosens, Bessie J., Mrs Wayside 1907 1911 44 48 1863 Surbiton Surrey 1938 New Forest Crawford, Annabella, Mrs Okefield/The Cottage 1867 1871 42 46 1825 Middx 1895 Stockbridge Crawford, Gertrude Eleanor, Lady Coxhill Lodge 1907 1937 39 69 1868 n/k 1937 Lymington Crawford, John Halket, Lt.-‐Col. Coxhill Lodge 1907 1907 65 65 1842 n/k 1919 Christchurch Crompton Stansfield, Mary Evelyn Maud, Miss
New Park 1911 1911 49 49 1862 Middledrift Cape Colony
1946 n/k
Cumming, Mansfield Smith, Captain Burnford House 1895 1899 36 40 1859 Blackheath 1923 Kensington Dale, Clement, J.P. Bartley Lodge 1874 1878 68 72 1806 n/k 1890 n/k Dalrymple, Francis Bertram, Major Bartley Lodge 1891 1932 40 81 1851 Paddington 1932 Bartley Lodge Darling, Charles John, Sir, JP Ladycross Lodge 1898 1914 49 65 1849 Colchester 1936 Lymington Davis, James, Burley Grange 1875 1895 61 81 1814 Marnhull, 1895 Ringwood Davis, Sarah, Mrs Burley Grange 1881 1902 68 89 1813 Yeovil 1902 Ringwood de Sales La Terriere, Fenwick Bulmer, Col., JP
Northerwood 1907 1912 51 56 1856 Alstone, Glos 1925 Lepe
de Sales La Terriere, Fenwick Bulmer, Col., JP
Lepe House 1925 1925 69 69 1856 Alstone, Glos 1925 Lepe
Denison, William Henry Forester, 1st Earl of Londesborough
Northerwood 1875 1889 41 55 1834 n/k 1900 n/k
Deprez, Edmund, Woodlands Lodge 1911 1915 60 64 1851 Belgium 1915 New Forest Dickinson, William, Esq. New Park 1859 1874 64 79 1795 St Georges, Middx 1874 Lymington Dickson, Ellen ÒDoloresÓ, Miss Birds Nest 1871 1878 52 59 1819 Woolwich 1878 n/k Dickson, Laur[ett]a Emmeline, Lady Wilverley 1871 1899 32 60 1839 Pembroke 1890 Wilverley Park Doughty, Henry Montagu, Littlecroft 1915 1915 74 74 1841 Suffolk 1916 Suffolk Douglas-‐Scott-‐Montagu, Henry John, Lord Henry Scott, later 1st Baron Montagu of Beaulieu (Lord Henry Scott)
Palace House 1866 1905 34 73 1832 n/k 1905 n/k
Douglas-‐Scott-‐Montagu, John Walter Edward, 2nd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu, KCIE, CSI, FZS, VD, DL, JP
Palace House 1889 1929 23 63 1866 London 1929 London
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Downman, Charles Backhouse, Haskells 1881 1895 17 31 1864 Norwich n/k n/k Downman, Charles Backhouse, Rosiere 1898 1920 34 56 1864 Norwich n/k n/k Drummond, Andrew Cecil, DL, JP Cadlands 1893 1913 28 48 1865 n/k 1913 n/k Drummond, Cyril, Major Cadlands 1929 1945 56 72 1873 n/k 1945 n/k Drummond, Maldwin, Capt, JP Cadlands 1913 1929 41 57 1872 n/k 1929 n/k Drummond, Mary Margaret, Miss Riversdale 1871 1915 38 82 1833 Pimlico 1917 Lymington Duncan, Alexander Lauderdale, Malwood 1911 1911 60 60 1851 Edinburgh 1934 Steyning, Sussex Duncan, Jane Hart Matthews, Mrs Minstead Lodge 1898 1911 59 72 1839 St Mungos, Lockerbie 1915 New Forest Duplessis, Jules Gaston, JP Newtown Park 1913 1956 54 97 1859 Boldre 1956 New Forest Duplessis, Jules, Newtown Park 1858 1913 24 79 1834 France 1913 Newtown Park Eaden, Henry W., Bartley Close 1889 1889 37 37 1852 Cambridge 1925 Cuckfield Easterbrook, James, Whitemoor 1911 1920 59 68 1852 Devonshire Dean
Prior 1923 Mentone
Edwards, Sampson, Lieut. Durmast Hill 1848 1878? 51 n/k 1797 Morgate, Hants 1878 Burley Esdaile, William Clement Drake, Esq., JP
Burley Manor 1846 1900 26 80 1820 Bayborough, Somerset
1899 London
Everett, William, Allum Green House 1881 1895 67 81 1814 Ludgershall n/k n/k Eyre, Mary M., Mrs Gilbury Hard 1915 1933 66 84 1849 London 1933 New Forest Fairley, William Cunningham, Burnford House 1885 1890 51 56 1834 n/k 1890 BurNew Forestord
House Fenwick, Sophia Rachel, Miss Allum Green House 1913 1932 56 75 1857 Aston Hall Derbyshire 1932 Allum Green Ferguson, Spencer Charles, Major, OBE
Holmwood 1923 1923 55 55 1868 Richmond, Surrey 1958 Surrey North Western
Ferguson, Spencer Charles, Major, OBE
Rosiere 1935 1935 67 67 1868 Richmond, Surrey 1958 Surrey North Western
Field, Samuel, Mr Parkhill 1871 1871 67 67 1804 Oxfordshire n/k n/k Field, Samuel, Mr Rosiere 1875 1875 71 71 1804 Oxfordshire n/k n/k Field, Samuel, Mr Brooklands 1878 1878 74 74 1804 Oxfordshire n/k n/k Firth, Anna Maria, Mrs Hurstly 1923 1937 58 72 1865 Manchester or
Broughton, Lancs 1937 Hurstly?
Firth, William Eustace, JP Hurstly 1903 1923 41 61 1862 York County Heckmondwike
1923 n/k
Fisher, Jane, Miss Whitley Ridge 1867 1877 70 80 1797 n/k 1877 Whitley Ridge Fletcher, William Morris, JP Burley Beacon 1898 1915 51 68 1847 India Bombay 1915x20 n/k Fleuret, John B., Esq. Forest Lodge 1895 1950 26 81 1869 n/k 1950? n/k Forman, Dora Margaret, Setley House 1903 1915 36 48 1867 Westminster, London 1931 Lymington
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Forman, Geoffrey Reginald, Setley House 1920 1923 27 30 1893 Boldre n/k n/k Forman, John Ball, Setley House 1891 1900 27 36 1864 Marylebone, London 1900 New Forest Forman, John Ball, New Park 1898 1899 34 35 1864 Marylebone, London 1900 New Forest Forster, Emily, Mrs Lepe House 1891 1891 54 54 1837 Thingwell, Cheshire n/k n/k Forster, Henry William, Lord, PC, GCMG
Lepe House 1923 1936 57 70 1866 Catford, Kent, 1936 London
Forster, John, Major Exbury House 1881 1885 54 58 1827 Southend, Lewisham, Kent
1886 New Forest
Fowler, J. Kingston, Sir, KCVO, MA, MD
Vineyards, The 1907 1915 55 63 1852 Woburn, Bedfordshire
1934 WardenÕs Lodge, Beaulieu
Gaussen, Alicia Fenton, Mrs Hill House 1906 1913 67 74 1839 Madras, India 1913 New Forest Gilbert, Edward, Major Bartley Lodge 1828 1869 44 85 1784 Eling 1868 n/k Glyn, Florence Elizabeth, Mrs Bramble Hill Lodge 1870 1887 41 58 1829 n/k 1887 Kingston, Surrey Goldfinch, John Howard, Mr Forest Lodge,
Lyndhurst 1870 1900 50 80 1820 n/k n/k n/k
Goodenough, Lucy, Okefield/The Cottage 1875 1878 49 52 1826 Middx n/k n/k Goodhart, James Frederick, Cedars, The 1903 1903 57 57 1846 London n/k n/k Goold-‐Adams, Samuel Hamilton, Mr Bartley Manor 1881 1884 66 69 1815 Ireland 1884 Chilworth Towers,
nr Romsey Gossling, Philip James, New Park 1901 1901 46 46 1855 Eling, Hampshire 1909 Lymington Graham, Reginald, Bart Fritham Lodge 1876 1876 40 40 1836 Norton Conyers,
Yorks 1920 Ripon, Yorks
Grant, Mary A., Mrs Craigellachie 1903 1911 42 50 1861 Ealing, Middx 1927 New Forest Grant, Seafield Falkland Murray Treasure, Lt-‐Gen.
Craigellachie 1903 1910 69 76 1834 Elichpoor, Decca, India
1910 n/k
Grant, William Alexander, Capt. Castle Malwood 1898 1907 36 45 1862 Scotland n/k n/k Greathed, William Wilberforce Harris, Colonel
Ladycross Lodge 1878 1878 52 52 1826 Paris 1878 London
Gurney-‐Dixon, Samuel, MD, MA Whitley Ridge 1920 1920 42 42 1878 n/k 1970 n/k Gurney-‐Dixon, Samuel, MD, MA Ober House 1923 1927 45 49 1878 n/k 1970 n/k Hall, William Reginald, Sir, Admiral, KCMG, CB, DCL, LLD
Rosiere 1935 1935 65 65 1870 n/k n/k n/k
Hanbury, Daniel, Esq. Castle Malwood 1910 1923 34 47 1876 Croydon, Surrey 1948 Castle Malwood Harcourt, Elizabeth, Lady Malwood 1904 1920 63 79 1841 Boston, USA n/k n/k Harcourt, Robert Vernon, Malwood 1920 1921 41 42 1879 London n/k n/k
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Harcourt, William George Granville Vernon-‐, Sir, MP, PC, QC, MA
Malwood 1883 1904 56 77 1827 Yorkshire 1904 Nuneham
Hardcastle, Thomas Augustus, High Coxlease 1920 1927 53 60 1867 Bradshaw, Lancashire 1941 Witney, Oxon Hargreaves, Caryl Liddell, Capt Cuffnells 1926 1935 39 48 1887 Boscombe 1955 1955 Hargreaves, Jonathan, Esq. Cuffnells 1859 1862 47 50 1812 Oakenshaw, Lancs 1862 Rome Hargreaves, Reginald Gervis, Esq. Cuffnells 1872 1926 19 73 1853 Accrington, Lancs 1926 New Forest Hatchard, Frank Sumner Utterton, High Croft 1911 1911 49 49 1862 St Nicholas Rectory
Guildford n/k n/k
Hawker, Peter, St Austins 1885 1889 32 36 1853 Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
n/k n/k
Heathcote, Ann Sophia, Miss St Austins 1849 1869 62 82 1787 Melksham, Wilts n/k n/k Heathcote, Charles George, Col., J. P. Beechwood House 1903 1923 59 79 1844 London 1924 New Forest Heathcote, Edmund, Admiral Bramble Hill Lodge 1871 1871 57 57 1814 Hants 1881 n/k Heathcote, Jessie, Mrs Fritham Lodge 1885 1915 59 89 1826 Halifax, Nova Scotia 1915 New Forest Heathcote, Latitia, Miss St Austins 1849 1869 58 78 1791 Melksham, Wilts n/k n/k Heathcote, Selina, Dowager Lady Beechwood House 1891 1901 76 86 1815 Ettington, 1901 New Forest Heathcote, Thomas Jenkins, Haskells 1851 1851 33 33 1818 Bagborough,
Somerset n/k n/k
Herbert, Auberon Edward Molyneux, Hon.
Old House 1881 1906 43 68 1838 London 1906 Old House, Burley
Herbert, Auberon Thomas, Lord Lucas & Dingwall
Picket Post 1907 1916 31 40 1876 Lymington 1916 n/k
Herbert, Nan T., Miss (later Lady Lucas and Dingwall)
Old House 1906 1923 25 42 1881 Ringstead, Dorset n/k n/k
Hewitt, Archibald Robert, 6th Viscount Lifford
Hill House 1923 1925 79 81 1844 n/k 1925 n/k
Hibberd, Henry Jukes, Holmwood 1895 1911 48 64 1847 Exmoor Devon 1923 Lymington Hicks, George Murray, Oak House 1891 1901 36 46 1855 St Pancras, London 1933 New Forest Hill, Charles, Mr Castle Malwood 1892 1894 69 71 1823 n/k 1874 Castle Malwood Howard, John Henry, Goldenhayes 1881 1895 33 47 1848 Great Witchingham,
Norfolk 1902 New Forest
Howard, Sarah Constance, Mrs Goldenhayes 1903 1920 50 67 1853 Middlesex London 1929 New Forest Huleatt, Cornelia Sophia, Mrs Annesley 1911 1912 77 78 1834 London 1912 New Forest Huleatt, Irene, Miss Annesley 1912 1915 29 32 1883 Herne Bay, Kent n/k n/k Humphery, Herbert Charles, Moonhills 1907 1925 49 67 1858 Clapham 1925 West Ilsley
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Jaffray, John Munton, JP Stydd House 1889 1906 36 53 1853 n/k 1906 n/k Jameson, Arthur B., Brookley House 1911 1911 46 46 1865 Warwick n/k n/k Jeffreys, Florence Hall, Mrs Canterton Manor
House 1911 1942 63 94 1848 Marylebone 1942 New Forest
Jeffreys, John William, Colonel Canterton Manor House
1922 1927 46 51 1876 Bournemouth 1962 New Forest
Jeffreys, John, Esq., J. P. Canterton Manor House
1887 1922 41 76 1846 Pimlico 1922 New Forest
Jemmett-‐Browne, Jemmett, Elcombes 1883 1885 50 52 1833 Cheltenham, Glos 1897 n/k Jervis-‐Smith, Frederick John, Rev., MA, FRS
Battramsley House 1907 1911 59 63 1848 Taunton 1911 Battramsley House
Jones, David, Esq. Warborne House 1863 1903 43 83 1820 Montgomeryshire 1915 Lymington Kaye, William, Rope Hill 1898 1911 60 73 1838 London, WC 1926 Upton House,
Bitton, Bristol Kelly, Edward Festus, Forest Lodge,
Lyndhurst 1895 1901 41 47 1854 n/k 1939 Donnington Castle
House, Newbury Kelly, Edward Festus, Northerwood 1895 1903 41 49 1854 n/k 1939 Donnington Castle
House, Newbury Kennedy, James Martin, MD Durmast Hill 1900 1903 50 53 1850 Ireland 1905 Durmast, Burley Kidgel, James, Holmwood 1891 1891 49 49 1842 Baddesley n/k n/k Knapton-‐Knapton, Augustus Lempriere, Captain
Boldre Hill 1885 1885 30 30 1855 Boldre 1922 Rope Hill
Knapton-‐Knapton, Augustus Lempriere, Captain
Boldre Hill 1889 1911 34 56 1855 Boldre 1922 Rope Hill
Knapton-‐Knapton, Augustus Lempriere, Captain
Rope Hill 1915 1922 60 67 1855 Boldre 1922 Rope Hill
Large, Robert Emmott, FRGS Latchmoor 1915 1926 69 80 1846 St Thomas, Salisbury, Wilts
1926 Lymington
Leech, Stephen, Sir, K.C.M.G. Parkhill 1923 1925 59 61 1864 Stockport, Cheshire 1925 Lyndhurst Leech, William Harold, Campden House 1910 1911 36 37 1874 Manchester Lancs 1954 New Forest Leese, Vernon Francis, Burley Lodge 1923 1923 53 53 1870 London n/k n/k Leuchars, Raymond, Hilltop House 1907 1907 25 25 1882 Wandsworth 1927 Hove, Sussex Liddell, John, Capt. Rodlease 1878 1911 30 63 1848 Wilts ? n/k Lillingston, Frederick G. Innes, Lt. Bartley Lodge 1880 1891 30 41 1850 Scotland 1904 Newton Abbot Lister-‐Kay, Ellis Cunliffe Lister, Esq. Burley Manor 1895 1903 47 55 1848 Addingham, Yorks n/k n/k Logan, Francis Carleton Logan, Major Roydon Manor 1915 1915 51 51 1864 Sussex, E. Grinstead n/k n/k
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Londesborough, Edith, Lady Northerwood 1875 1881 36 42 1839 n/k n/k n/k Lovell, Francis Frederick, Esq., JP Hincheslea House 1859 1906 38 85 1821 Malmesbury 1906 Lymington Lovell, Maud R., Miss Hincheslea House 1906 1923 45 62 1861 London 1941 New Forest Lucas, Edward Lingard, Setley House 1898 1901 38 41 1860 Roehampton 1936 London Lucas, Edward Lingard, Whitley Ridge 1902 1907 42 47 1860 Roehampton 1936 London Lushington, Algernon Hay, Gascoignes 1898 1903 50 55 1848 Lyndhurst n/k n/k Lushington, Augusta V., Mrs Okefield/The Cottage 1885 1901 42 58 1843 Stratford, Surrey n/k n/k Lushington, Frederick Astell, Mr, JP Rosiere 1878 1889 63 74 1815 London 1892 Lyndhurst Lushington, Margaret, Lady Rosiere 1861 1861 48 48 1813 Lyndhurst n/k n/k Lushington, William Bryant, Okefield/The Cottage 1885 1888 60 63 1825 n/k 1888 Christchurch Lyell, Charles, Esq. Bartley Lodge 1789 1826 20 57 1769 London 1849 Kinnordy House Lyman-‐Dixon, Alfred Charles Hugh, Major
Holmehurst 1920 1923 62 65 1858 n/k 1937 n/k
Lyon, Arthur Owen, Burley Lodge 1891 1895 38 42 1853 Castle Church, Staffs n/k n/k Macleay, Alexander Caldcleugh, Major
Glasshayes 1874 1895 31 52 1843 Middlesex London England
1907 Sussex, Eastbourne
Macleay, Alexander Caldcleugh, Major
Okefield/The Cottage 1885 1885 42 42 1843 Middlesex London England
1907 Sussex, Eastbourne
Macpherson, Evan, Maj. Forest Bank 1872 1874 70 72 1802 n/k 1874 n/k Mainwaring-‐Sladen, [Catherine Frances], Miss
Battramsley House 1915 1915 69 69 1846 n/k 1943 Funchal, Madeira
Maitland, Reginald Charles Frederick, Lt-‐Col, DSO, JP
Bartley Manor 1926 1939 44 57 1882 n/k 1939 n/k
Maitland, Reginald Paynter, Capt., RA
Bartley Manor 1884 1926 33 75 1851 Southsea Hants 1926 New Forest
Malcolm, Louisa, Mrs Beechwood House 1859 1887 40 68 1819 Lower Eastington, Warwicks
1887 New Forest
Martin, Francis P. B., Gascoignes 1885 1890 70 75 1815 Madras Billory 1890 New Forest Martineau, Cyril, Forest Lodge 1920 1920 48 48 1872 Paddington, London n/k n/k Maryon-‐Wilson, Spencer Pocklington, Sir, 11th Bart
Ladycross Lodge 1911 1911 51 51 1860 Bembridge, IoW 1944? n/k
Massie, Roger Henry, Brig-‐Gen, CB, CMG
Craigellachie 1920 1923 51 54 1869 n/k 1927 n/k
Master, Charles Hoskins, Capt. Exbury House 1903 1915 25 37 1878 Sandgate, Kent 1960 Oxted, Surrey Matcham, George Henry Eyre, Bramble Hill Lodge 1889 1903 27 41 1862 Whiteparish, Wilts 1939 Salisbury, Wilts Mather, Loris Emerson, Mr Bramble Hill Lodge 1920 1922 34 36 1886 n/k 1976 n/k
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Mather, William, Sir Bramble Hill Lodge 1907 1920 69 82 1838 John Street, Manchester
1920 Bramble Hill Lodge
Mathews, Francis Claughton, MA New Park 1915 1924 82 91 1833 n/k 1924 New Forest Maxwell, John, Esq. Annesley 1885 1895 65 75 1820 n/k 1895 n/k McCalmont, Barklie Cairns, Col., CB, JP
Warborne House 1911 1915 50 54 1861 S Stoneham n/k n/k
McTaggart, James, Esq. Foxlease 1840 by 1855 25 n/k 1815 Fulham, London n/k n/k Meade-‐Waldo, Edmund Gustave Bloomfield,
Rope Hill 1882 1895 27 40 1855 Holly Brook, Co. Cork 1934 n/k
Meischke-‐Smith, William, Esq. Boldre Hill 1918 1923 49 54 1869 n/k 1931 Knightsbridge Meyrick, George Augustus Elliott Tapps Gervis, Sir
Ladycross Lodge 1885 1885 30 30 1855 n/k 1928 n/k
Meyrick, George Augustus Elliott Tapps Gervis, Sir
Holmfield 1923 1923 68 68 1855 n/k 1928 n/k
Mitchell, Harry, Haskells 1911 1915 53 57 1858 Bradford, Yorkshire n/k n/k Moate, Mary, Miss Woodmancote 1911 1913 68 70 1843 Kent Blackheath 1913 Lymington Moens, Anne, Mrs Tweed 1907 1916 79 88 1828 Crompton, Surrey 1916 Lymington Moens, William John Charles, Tweed 1867 1903 34 70 1833 London 1904 Boldre Mole, Roland Thornicroft, Riversdale 1923 1923 54 54 1869 Edgbaston
Warwickshire 1940 Bournemouth,
Dorset Montagu Douglas Scott, Walter Francis, 5th Duke of Buccleuch
Palace House 1859 1866 53 60 1806 Dalkeith House, Midlothian
1884 Bowhill, Selkirkshire
Morant, Edward John Harry Eden, JP Brockenhurst House 1898 1910 30 42 1868 Middx 1910 Lymington Morant, Flora Jane, Mrs Brockenhurst House 1901 1915 68 82 1833 Bekesbourne, Kent 1915 Lymington Morant, John, JP, DL Brockenhurst House 1857 1899 32 74 1825 Brockenhurst 1899 n/k Morant, Kathleen, Lady (later Lady Hare)
Brockenhurst House 1911 1922 27 38 1884 London 1971 New Forest
Morant, William S., Parkhill 1861 1867 32 38 1829 Brockenhurst 1879 Wycombe, Bucks Morgan, Ada Maria, Lady Forest Bank 1871 1871 40 40 1831 Middlesex 1884 Kensington Morgan, Gerard Hervey, Hilltop House 1911 1915 46 50 1865 Norwich n/k n/k Mudge, Richard Rosdew, Esq. Holmwood 1859 1881 63 85 1796 Brampford Speke,
Devon 1885 n/k
Murray, Hugh, Sir, CIE, CBE, JP Bramble Hill Lodge 1922 1941 61 80 1861 Wetheral, Cumb. 1941 Salisbury, Wilts ie Bramble Hill?
Napier, Arthur Wilson, Campden House 1923 1923 52 52 1871 Devonport, Devon n/k n/k Napier, Arthur Wilson, Boldre Hill 1935 1935 64 64 1871 Devonport, Devon n/k n/k
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Nevill, Dudley Frederick, High Croft 1903 1903 30 30 1873 Tamworth, Warwick 1952 Christchurch Northcote, Hugh Howard Stafford, Fritham House 1915 1923 27 35 1888 America New York n/k n/k Nunn, George, Dr Forest Bank 1890 1890 45 45 1845 Lyndhurst 1891? Bromley, Kent? Orde, Julian Walter, Sir Harford House 1923 1923 62 62 1861 Hopton Suffolk 1929 Norfolk, Loddon Parker, Richard, General Castle Malwood 1867 1885 64 82 1803 Marylebone 1885 Castle Malwood Parnell, John Brooke Molesworth, 6th Baron Congleton
Minstead Lodge 1924 1932 32 40 1892 n/k 1932 n/k
Patterson, Julian Edward Chichester, Rev.
Broadlands Gate 1911 1927 59 75 1852 Lichfield Staffordshire
1939 Overbrook, Brockenhurst
Peel, Lawrence, Rope Hill 1891 1891 55 55 1836 Willingham n/k n/k Pember, Edward Henry, JP, QC, MA Vicars Hill House 1885 1911 52 78 1833 Streatham Surrey 1911 VicarÕs Hill Penton, Edward, Esq Bench House 1895 1911 49 65 1846 London St Pancras 1926 Cavendish Square Penton, Edward, Esq Apple Tree Court 1919 1920 73 74 1846 London St Pancras 1926 Cavendish Square Perkins, Norman Chichester, Maj. Burley Beacon 1907 1911 46 50 1861 Dalhousie India 1939 Surrey Perkins, Walter Frank, MP Boldre Bridge House 1901 1923 36 58 1865 Southampton 1946 n/k Peto, Morton Kelsall, Esq. Littlecroft 1886 1913 40 67 1846 Marylebone 1921 n/k Phelps, Thomas, Rev. Picket Post 1879 1909 46 76 1833 Alton Pancras, Dorset n/k n/k Phillipson, John Thorpe Burton, Esq. Bramshaw Hill 1856 1871 56 71 1800 Suffolk 1880? n/k Pinckney, Hubert, Roydon Manor 1920 1920 56 56 1864 Salisbury, Wiltshire 1952 New Forest Poore, Agnes, Lady Cuffnells 1833 1856 33 56 1800 Eccles, Berwickshire,
Scotland 1868? Alderbury
Poore, Edward, Sir, 2nd Bart. Cuffnells 1833 1838 38 43 1795 n/k 1838 n/k Poore, Edward, Sir, 3rd Bart. Cuffnells 1838 1856 12 30 1826 n/k 1893 Australia Popham, Alexander Hugh L., Esq. Northerwood 1859 1866 38 45 1821 Chilton, Wilts 1866 Marylebone Potter, Cyril Charlie Hamilton, Lepe House 1909 1915 31 37 1878 Glos Fullwood Park
Cheltenham n/k n/k
Powell Montgomery, Henry Buckworth, Esq.
Cuffnells 1851 1851 31 31 1820 Tottenham 1878 n/k
Powell Montgomery, Henry Buckworth, Esq.
Foxlease 1859 1859 39 39 1820 Tottenham 1878 n/k
Powell Montgomery, Henry Buckworth, Esq.
Wilverley 1875 1878 55 58 1820 Tottenham 1878 n/k
Powell, E. W. Martin, Brig.-‐Gen., CB, CMG, DSO
Brooklands 1923 1932 54 63 1869 n/k 1954 n/k
Powell, Eliza, Mrs. Cuffnells 1851 1851 59 59 1792 London (Old Drury?) 1865 n/k Powell, Eliza, Mrs. Foxlease 1855 1865 63 73 1792 London (Old Drury?) 1865 n/k
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Date of
birth
Place of birth Date of death
Place of death
Powell, Henry Martin, Esq. Wilverley 1895 1923 26 54 1869 Lyndhurst n/k n/k Powell, Henry Weyland, Esq. Foxlease 1828 1840 41 53 1787 n/k 1840 n/k Powell, Mary Grace, [Miss] Brooklands 1911 1932 43 64 1868 Lyndhurst n/k n/k Powell, William Martin, Capt. Foxlease 1859 1859 34 34 1825 Wantage, Berks n/k n/k Powell, William Martin, Capt. Shrubbs Hill 1867 1875 42 50 1825 Wantage, Berks n/k n/k Powell, William Martin, Capt. Forest Bank 1880 1901 55 76 1825 Wantage, Berks n/k n/k Powell, William Martin, Capt. Brooklands 1885 1885 60 60 1825 Wantage, Berks n/k n/k Preston, , Mrs Minstead Lodge 1861 1871 37 47 1824 Christchurch 1892 London, Hanover
Sq Preston, Frances A. M., Mrs Minstead Lodge 1881 1885 48 52 1833 France n/k n/k Preston, William Dean, Minstead Lodge 1895 1895 23 23 1872 India n/k n/k Preston, William Robert, Esq. Minstead Lodge 1859 1878 50 69 1809 [Walton], Lancs n/k n/k Price, Owen Talbot, Esq. New Park 1907 1907 38 38 1869 Kingston-‐upon-‐
Thames OR Surbiton 1963 New Forest
Pulteney, Evelyn, Mrs Northerwood 1851 1851 82 82 1769 Berkeley Square, London
n/k n/k
Pulteney, Isabella, Mrs Forest Lodge, Lyndhurst
1901 1920 63 82 1838 London 1920 n/k
Pulteney, John Granville Beaumont, JP
Northerwood 1849 1875 13 39 1836 n/k 1875 n/k
Pulteney, Keppel, JP, CC Northerwood 1875 1895 6 26 1869 London Westminster 1944 n/k Pulteney, Keppel, JP, CC St Austins 1875 1935 6 66 1869 London Westminster 1944 n/k Pulteney, Sybil Frances, Miss Forest Lodge,
Lyndhurst 1920 1923 48 51 1872 St Leonards-‐on-‐Sea 1955 New Forest
Pye, Peter Grieg, Elcombes 1923 1923 60 60 1863 Dysart, Fife 1941 New Forest Rawnsley, Willingham Franklin, JP, MA Oxon
Parkhill 1889 1901 44 56 1845 Little Hadham, Hertfordshire
1927 Hambledon, Surrey
Ricardo, John Lewis, Esq. Exbury House 1859 1861 46 48 1813 Walthamstow, Essex 1862 Chelsea, London Richardson, Marinne, Mrs Haskells 1901 1901 77 77 1824 Scotland n/k n/k Richardson, Robert Young, Stydd House 1884 1884 38 38 1846 Glasgow 1884 Stydd House Ridley, Edward P. C., Sir, MA, PC Rings, The 1915 1920 72 77 1843 n/k 1928 n/k Ridout, Charles E., Parkhill 1903 1915 44 56 1859 Sandhurst, Kent 1933 Gosport Rivett-‐Carnac, John, Sir, Bart. Warborne House 1842 1863 24 45 1818 n/k 1883 n/k Robbins, Fanny, Mrs Castle Malwood 1864 1878? 62 n/k 1802 Marylebone n/k n/k Robbins, George, Esq Forest Lodge 1859 1861 57 59 1802 West Wellow, Hants n/k n/k
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Name Property Start date
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birth
Place of birth Date of death
Place of death
Robbins, Thomas William, Lieut. Genl.
Castle Malwood 1838 1864 49 75 1789 Boldre 1864 New Forest
Roberts, Harriet, Mrs Burley Grange 1848 1871 42 65 1806 Chatham, Kent n/k n/k Rose, George, Rt. Hon. Sir Cuffnells 1784 1832 40 88 1744 n/k 1818 Cuffnells Rosoman, Richard, Birds Nest 1881 1881 54 54 1827 Brighton n/k n/k Rothschild, Lionel Nathan de, OBE, JP, MP
Inchmery House 1915 1942 33 60 1882 n/k 1942 n/k
Ryder, Archibald Dudley, Hon. Durns House 1915 1950 48 83 1867 n/k 1950 Durns, Beaulieu Sackville, Reginald Windsor, 7th Earl de la Warr, MA, DL, JP
Inchmery House 1889 1895 72 78 1817 St George Hanover Square, London
1896 n/k
Samuelson, Godfrey B., Exbury House 1901 1901 37 37 1864 Banbury, Oxon n/k n/k Sandford, Thomas George Wills, Campden House 1915 1920 35 40 1880 Ireland 1948 Bournemouth Saunderson, Anne Archbold, Mrs Foxlease 1912 1922 39 49 1873 n/k 1968 Nassau Saunderson, Armar Dayrolles, Esq. Foxlease 1915 1919 43 47 1872 n/k 1952 n/k Saurin, Arthur E. N., High Croft 1920 1923 53 56 1867 London 1933 Hastings, Sussex Saurin, Mary Frances, Miss High Croft 1902 1902 60 60 1842 London 1912 Mentone Saurin, Mary Frances, Miss High Croft 1907 1907 65 65 1842 London 1912 Mentone Sedgwick, Thomas Arnold, Rev. Forest Lodge 1920 1923 60 63 1860 Watford,Herts 1949 New Forest Shedden, Lewis W., Mr St Austins 1878 1881 25 28 1853 Lyndhurst 1904 Warwickshire Shedden, Lewis W., Mr Boldre Bridge House 1891 1899 38 46 1853 Lyndhurst 1904 Warwickshire Shedden, William Lindsay, Mr Elcombes 1851 1852 41 42 1810 Lyndhurst 1884 Lymington Shrubb, Charles, Revd Vicars Hill House 1875 1875 85 85 1790 Thames Ditton,
Surrey 1875 Lymington
Shrubb, John Lane, Rodlease 1867 1875 27 35 1840 Boldre 1884 Lymington Shrubb, John Lane, Boldre Grange 1871 1884 31 44 1840 Boldre 1884 Lymington Shrubb, John Peyto Charles, Esq., JP Boldre Grange 1915 1915 52 52 1863 Ringwood 1918 Lymington Shrubb, John Peyto Charles, Esq., JP Boldre Grange 1915 1918 52 55 1863 Ringwood 1918 Lymington Shrubb, Sibylla M. L., Mrs Boldre Grange 1884 1911x15 40 n/k 1844 Lymington 1911x15 Italy Simpson, Jaques Alfred, Cedars, The 1911 1911 58 58 1853 Church Accrington,
Lancs 1915 Southsea
Slade, Henry H[ercules?], Esq. Northerwood 1867 1871 68 72 1799 Marlborough 1878? Bath? Smith, Thomas Eustace, High Coxlease 1901 1903 70 72 1831 Newcastle upon Tyne 1903 n/k Somerset, Robert Henry, DSO Hilltop House 1923 1923 25 25 1898 London Regents Park 1965 Athens (Rhodes) Souberbielle, Edouard, Cedars, The 1907 1907 48 48 1859 n/k 1912 Tarbes, France Spencer, Harvey, Stydd House 1885 1886 53 54 1832 London Marylebone 1899 London
Marylebone
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Name Property Start date
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Age at end date
Date of
birth
Place of birth Date of death
Place of death
Sque, George, Old House 1881 1881 57 57 1824 Boldre 1897 Ringwood St Barbe, Henry, Vicars Hill House 1907 1911 49 53 1858 Lymington 1935 Hendon, Middx Stacey, Charles Darwin, Burnford House 1909 1915 35 41 1874 Bombay 1916? Marylebone Standish, Emma, Mrs New Park 1888 1890 58 60 1830 Hanley,
Worcestershire 1890 New Forest
Standish, Lucy Christiana, Miss New Park 1890 1895 33 38 1857 Bishopstoke, Hants 1906 Winchester, Hampshire
Standish, William Cecil, Mr Forest Bank 1876 1876 53 53 1823 Swallowfield, Berkshire
1888 New Forest
Standish, William Cecil, Mr New Park 1878 1888 55 65 1823 Swallowfield, Berkshire
1888 New Forest
Stanhope, Dudley Henry Eden, The Hon., 9th Earl of Harrington
Bartley Close 1901 1915 42 56 1859 Strangford, Co. Down 1928 n/k
Stevenson, William George, Esq., J. P. Foxlease 1867 1867 40 40 1827 n/k 1910 Uxbridge Stevenson, William George, Esq., J. P. Foxlease 1875 1899 48 72 1827 n/k 1910 Uxbridge Stevenson, William George, Esq., J. P. Foxlease 1879 1879 52 52 1827 n/k 1910 Uxbridge Stucley, George S., Sir, Bart Exbury House 1871 1878 57 64 1814 Bideford, Devon 1900 Bideford, Devon Sweet, Edward David, Esq. Riversdale 1867 1867 46 46 1821 Hillersdon, Devon 1901 Lymington Sweet, Edward David, Esq. Battramsley House 1869 1901 48 80 1821 Hillersdon, Devon 1901 Lymington Sweet, Lucy, Mrs Battramsley House 1901 1903 86 88 1815 Shrewsbury 1903 Lymington Swinburne, George W. P., Bartley Close 1920 1929 44 53 1876 Worcestershire
Acocks Green 1969 Christchurch
Sykes, Mary, Mrs Elcombes 1895 1918 56 79 1839 Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
1918 New Forest
Sykes, Percy Molesworth, Brig.-‐Gen. Sir
Elcombes 1902 1920 35 53 1867 Canterbury 1945 n/k
Talbot, Henry Charles, Major Whitley Ridge 1889 1901 50 62 1839 Micheldever, Monmouth
1901 New Forest
Taylor, Frederick Beatson, BA Camb Birds Nest 1911 1911 59 59 1852 India Dinapur n/k n/k Thompson, Hugh Perronet, Rodlease 1915 1923 60 68 1855 n/k 1937 n/k Thursby, Augusta, Dame Fountain Court 1949 1949 72 72 1877 Blaston
Leicestershire 1949 New Forest
Thursby, George James, Sir, third baronet
Fountain Court 1915 1941 46 72 1869 London 1941 New Forest
Timson, Henry Thomas, Major Stydd House 1915 1923 46 54 1869 n/k 1928 n/k
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Date of
birth
Place of birth Date of death
Place of death
Turner-‐Turner, John Edmund Unett Phillipson, JP
Abbey Spring 1911 1922 55 66 1856 Bramshaw 1938 Newton Abbot, Devon
Unwin, Edward Wilberforce, Esq. Forest Lodge 1867 1885 49 67 1818 Derbyshire 1888 n/f Upjohn, William Henry, KC Annesley 1935 1935 82 82 1853 n/k 1941 n/k Vicars-‐Miles, Matthew John, JP Whitemoor 1923 1923 58 58 1865 Devon 1942 n/k Vines, Mary, Mrs. Haskells 1859 1859 82 82 1777 Northampton
Willingborough n/k n/k
Walker Munro, Edward Lionel, Lieut-‐Commander, RN
Ladycross Lodge 1887 1889 25 27 1862 St Georges, Middx 1920 Lymington
Walter, Charles, Esq. Vicars Hill House 1867 1871 69 73 1798 Twickenham, Middx n/k n/k Walther, Edward, Careys 1891 1891 75 75 1816 Australia n/k n/k Ward-‐Jackson, Emily, Mrs Camp Hill 1903 1917 65 79 1838 Mirfield, Yorkshire 1917 Camp Hill Ward-‐Jackson, William Charles, Major, DL, JP
Hill House 1881 1881 46 46 1835 Durham Norton 1903 New Forest
Ward-‐Jackson, William Charles, Major, DL, JP
Camp Hill 1885 1903 50 68 1835 Durham Norton 1903 New Forest
Ward-‐Jackson, William Ralph, BA Camp Hill 1911 1935 43 67 1868 Malvern, Worcs 1935 New Forest Warre, George Acheson, Pennerley Lodge 1898 1898 55 55 1843 Portugal 1913 Winchester Wathen-‐Bartlett, William, Vereley 1898 1934 31 67 1867 Paddington 1934 Christchurch Welby, Reginald Earle, Baron Welby Malwood 1915 1915 83 83 1832 Harston,
Leicestershire 1915 Malwood
Wilkinson, Hugh, Oak House 1891 1898 41 48 1850 Hampstead, London 1948 New Forest Wilkinson, Leonard Rodwell, Hollowdene/Sunnycote 1911 1911 42 42 1869 Highgate, London n/k n/k Wilks, Mathias Buckworth, Mr Brooklands 1866 1875 38 47 1828 n/k 1882 n/k Willan, Frank, Col. Burley Manor 1915 1923 69 77 1846 Plymouth 1931 Burley Williams, Walter, Captain Gascoignes 1855 1859 43 47 1812 Middx n/k n/k Witherby, Emily, Mrs Holmehurst 1907 1915 69 77 1838 Forebridge
Staffordshire 1915 Ringwood
Witherby, Henry (Harry) Forbes, Esq., F. Z. S.
Holmehurst 1903 1907 67 71 1836 Highbury, London 1907 Burley
Wood, Seymour Augustus, Burley Lodge 1885 1889 29 33 1856 Fifehead, Dorset 1895 South Stoneham Woodroffe, Charles Henry Witts, BA, JP
Lynwood 1881 1881 30 30 1851 n/k n/k n/k
Woodroffe, Charles Henry Witts, BA, JP
Stydd House 1884 1885 33 34 1851 n/k n/k n/k
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Date of
birth
Place of birth Date of death
Place of death
Wright, Henry S., Parkhill 1881 1881 41 41 1840 Quorndon, Derbyshire
n/k n/k
Wright, Trevor, Harford House 1911 1911 30 30 1881 Warwickshire Edgbaston
n/k n/k
Wyndham, Isabel Campbell, Mrs Durham Lodge 1911 1911 44 44 1867 Lyndhurst 1936? Salisbury Young, Amelia, Mrs Moorhill House 1901 1901 65 65 1836 Ringwood n/k n/k
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Appendix F. Residents and their backgroundsThis appendix contains five tables:
Table F.1. Residents and their backgrounds (page 172)
Table F.2. Number of residents in each category (page 199)
Table F.3. Number of residents in each category with at least 20 rooms or
at least four bathrooms (page 200)
Table F.4. Number of residents in each category with billiards rooms,
tennis lawns or courts, or glasshouses (page 201);
Table F.5. Wealth at death (page 202)
Notes on background classifications:
Aristocracy includes members of the peerage and some baronets. The
people in this category would probably have had income from land and
possibly from other sources.
Army and Navy include professional army and naval officers, as well as some
who only served for a short time in their youth. Almost all these people
would have had private means derived from some other source.
Commerce includes trade, banking, and other commercial activities.
Empire includes all activities in parts of the British Empire, including Ireland
(trade, plantations, farming, as well as administration); the one or two cases
of trade with other colonies (e.g. Dutch West Indies) have been put down as
Commerce.
Funds etc is given when census records state ‘fundholder’, ‘own means’,
‘private means’, ‘annuitant’, ‘income derived from dividends’ and so on.
Industry includes manufacturing, mining, and construction; Publishing has
been separated out, as it sits between Industry and Commerce.
Land is given where it is known that the person owned land or is described
in census records or elsewhere as owning or deriving income from land;
Farmer has been separated out when census records state that the person
was actively farming.
Professions include clergy, academics, teachers, architects, engineers,
surveyors, doctors, and civil servants. Law has been separated out, because
there were so many instances.
Son/daughter is stated where the late parent (or grandparent) is also in the
list.
Widow is stated where the late husband is also in the list; otherwise the
husband’s background is given (if known)
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Table F.1. Residents and their backgrounds Name Background Birthdate Birthplace Date of death Place of death Notes Acheson, Archibald, Rt Hon. 4th Earl of Gosford, KP
Aristocracy 1841 n/k 1922 n/k Peer; Vice-‐Chamberlain to HM Queen Alexandra since 1901
Aide, Georgina Emma M., Mrs Not known 1791 London 1875 Portsea Island widow Aide, Hamilton, Capt. Arts/letters 1831 France n/k n/k Travelled a great deal, made pretty
sketches and wrote many novels (Bowden-‐Smith)
Aitchison, Catherine, Mrs (later Lady Codrington)
Widow 1814 Minstead? 1880 New Forest da. of Henry C. Compton widow of Adm. Aitchison and Sir H. Codrington
Aitchison, Henry Compton, Capt.
Navy 1844 Burley n/k n/k Naval officer
Aitchison, Constance Fanny, Mrs
Widow 1859 Lyndhurst n/k n/k widow of Henry Compton Aitchison
Aitchison, Robert, Admiral Navy n/k n/k n/k n/k Naval officer Alexander, Herbert George, Commerce 1863 Middlesex Stoke
Newington n/k n/k Bank Director
Alexander, Meriel, Miss Son/daughter 1893 Fordwich, Kent n/k n/k da. of Herbert Alexander Anderson, Alice, Mrs Not known 1822 or
1827 Burton, Northumberland
1907 New Forest widow with da. b. in Italy in 1867
Anstie, James, QC Law 1836 n/k 1924 n/k Barrister, Charity Commissioner Arderne, David Davies, Lt.Col. Army 1821 Montgomeryshire n/k n/k Army officer ‘late RFA’ Aris, Herbert, Major, MA, FRGS, JP
Professions 1868 n/k 1952 n/k House Master, Winchester College, 1911-‐20; OC Winchester Coll. OTC, 1908-‐18; Member of Council of Central Landowners’ Association, 1921-‐30; Verderer of New Forest, 1936; Governor of University College, Southampton; High Sheriff for County of Southampton, 1940
Armstrong, George Medlicott, Capt. OBE
Army 1866 n/k 1942 New Forest Army officer
Ashworth, Frederick C., Esq. Empire 1830 Middx n/k n/k Landowner in Ireland
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Name Background Birthdate Birthplace Date of death Place of death Notes Askew, Henry William, Esq. Industry 1808 n/k 1890 n/k Landowner of Redheugh, Co.
Durham (mining) Attwood, George, Professions 1845? n/k 1912? n/k Possibly consulting civil and
mining engineer and author of numerous scientific publications
Bagot, Gertrude Letitia, Mrs Army 1833 South Africa 1898 London, Kensington
wife of Col. Bagot
Bagot, Alexander, Col. Army n/k n/k n/k n/k Army officer Bailey, Henry Francis, Arts/letters 1831 Thorney Fen.
Cambridgeshire 1916 Lymington Merchant, artist
Baillie-‐Hamilton, Arthur Charles, Rev. & Hon., MA, JP
Professions 1838 Scotland 1910 n/k Clerk In Holy Orders Justice Of The Peace for Suffolk
Baillie-‐Hamilton, Margaret, Miss
Farmer 1869 Knightsbridge n/k n/k Farmer
Baring, Hugo, Major the Hon., OBE
Commerce 1876 n/k 1949 n/k A member of the banking family (great-‐grandson of the founder), director of Westminster Bank
Baring, Eleanor Mary, Miss Commerce 1877 Regents Park, London
n/k n/k No Eleanors on Barings Bank family tree
Baring, Francis Charles, Maj., JP
Commerce n/k n/k n/k n/k Barings Bank?
Barker-‐Hahlo, Herman, BA, Cantab
Law 1874 Manchester 1972 Guernsey Barrister, landowner
Barnard, John C., Not Known n/k n/k n/k n/k n/k Barret, Charles J. M., Empire 1816 Herefordshire n/k n/k Owner of estates in Jamaica Barrow, Ernest R., Not Known n/k n/k n/k n/k n/k Barton, Charles Cutts, gent. Land 1802 Middx 1894 Romsey Landed Proprietor Baston, Charles, Esq. Not Known n/k n/k n/k n/k n/k Bayldon, Robert Corbett, Navy 1882 Pangbourne,
Berks n/k n/k Naval officer (Lt. in 1911)
Bayldon, Owen Hague, Lt.-‐Col. Army n/k n/k n/k n/k Army officer Bellone, Julia J, Commerce 1853 Brockenhurst n/k n/k Lodging house keeper Benett, William Morgan, Mr Law 1813 n/k 1891 Lyme Regis Master in the High Court of Justice Berry, Denis, The Hon. Not Known n/k n/k n/k n/k n/k
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Name Background Birthdate Birthplace Date of death Place of death Notes Bingley, F. S. N., Esq. Not Known n/k n/k n/k n/k n/k Blaker, Walter Campbell, Professions 1849 Rayne, Essex 1922 Croydon, Surrey General Medical Practitioner Bois, Percy, Esq. Empire 1856 n/k 1946 Woodend, Liss ‘late of Colombo, Ceylon’ Bolton, Hubert Ernest Laugtree, Capt.
Law 1873 Lancs 1941 Surrey Barrister
Bovill, A., Mrs Commerce n/k n/k n/k n/k widow of John Henry Bovill, corn factor and director of Martinez Gassiot and Co. Ltd. (port shippers)?
Bowden-‐Smith, Nathaniel, Esq.
Not Known 1798 n/k 1886 Lymington n/k
Bowden-‐Smith, Richard, Esq. Land 1801 Brockenhurst 1881 New Forest Landowner Bowden-‐Smith, Georgina, Mrs Widow 1821 Corhampton n/k n/k widow of Richard Bowden-‐Smith Bowden-‐Smith, Henry, JP Empire 1835 Brockenhurst
Hants 1925 Lymington J P For The County Of Southampton
had tried coffee planting in Ceylon Bowden-‐Smith, Frederick Hermann, Revd
Professions 1842 Neu.... on Rhine, Germany
1919 Christchurch Rural dean of Lyndhurst
Bowden-‐Smith, Harriet Charlotte, Mrs
Widow 1848 Newick, Sussex n/k n/k widow of Frederick Hermann Bowden-‐Smith
Bowden-‐Smith, Walter Baird, Son/daughter 1851 Crickhowell Brecknockshire
1932 New Forest son of Richard and Georgina Bowden-‐Smith
Bowden-‐Smith, Hermann Nathaniel,
Empire n/k n/k 1933 n/k Egyptian Civil Service
Bowes Lyon, Francis, Hon. Army 1856 n/k 1948 Ridley Hall, NÕumberland
Late Lieut-‐Col Comdg 2nd Vol. Batt. the Black Watch (Royal Highlanders); Member of the King’s Bodyguard for Scotland since 1881
Bowes-‐Lyon, Malcolm, Lt-‐Col., Hon.
Army 1874 Richmond, Surrey 1957 n/k Army officer
Bradburne, Laura, Mrs Widow 1809 St Vincent, West Indies
1885 New Forest widow of Frederick Angelo Bradburne?
Bradburne, Frederick Ashe, JP Land 1838 Binstead, Sussex 1925 n/k Landowner, JP Bradburne, Laura Sophia, Miss
Not known 1842 Chichester, Sussex
1923 n/k sister of Frederick Ashe Bradburne
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Name Background Birthdate Birthplace Date of death Place of death Notes Braddon, Mary Elizabeth, Miss (Mrs Maxwell)
Arts/letters 1835 London 1915 Lichfield House, Richmond
Novelist
Braun, Charles William Herbert,
Funds etc 1868 Liverpool, Lancashire
n/k n/k Living On Own Means; trout breeder.
Bridger, Lowther, Esq. Professions 1841 Chelsea n/k n/k Principal Clerk Secretary G P O Brine, Augustus James, Revd Professions 1805 West Lulworth,
Dorset n/k n/k Magistrate
Brooke, Augusta, Mrs Funds etc 1814 n/k n/k n/k Annuitant Broomfield, James, Mr Not Known n/k n/k n/k n/k n/k Brown, Capt. Navy n/k n/k n/k n/k Army or naval officer Brown, John, Professions n/k n/k n/k n/k Retired surgeon Bryan, Edward Willoughby, Mr
Professions 1845 Hants n/k n/k Government Contract Holder
Bryan, Charles R. W., Not Known n/k n/k n/k n/k n/k Buckland, Francis O., Professions 1858 Notting Hill,
London n/k n/k M D Physician
Buckland, Elizabeth, Mrs Not known 1863 Belgium n/k n/k wife of Francis O. Buckland Bulley, John Blagrave, Esq. Navy 1806 Reading, Bucks
[sic] 1864 New Forest Independent (1851), Naval officer?
Burnaby, Miss Son/daughter n/k n/k n/k n/k niece of Miss Dickson Burrard, Louisa, Lady Widow 1802 London n/k n/k Widow of Admiral Sir Charles
Burrard Burrard, Charles, Admiral Sir Navy n/k n/k n/k n/k Naval officer Burton, William Henry, Col. Army 1836 Northants
Daventry 1914 Lymington Army officer (RE)
Burton, Blanche C., Mrs Widow 1848 Paddington 1930 Lymington widow of William Henry Burton
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Name Background Birthdate Birthplace Date of death Place of death Notes Bushman, Henry Augustus, Major-‐General, Sir, K.C.B.
Army 1841 Sheffield 1930 Okefield Army officer Entered Army, 1858; Col 1884; served N.-‐W. Frontier, India, 1863 (medal with clasp); Zulu War, 1879 (despatches, Brevet Lieut-‐Col, medal with clasp); Afghan War, 1879-‐80, March from Kabul and Battle of Kandahar (despatches, medal with clasp, bronze star)
Cameron, Aylmer S., Colonel, CB, VC
Army 1833 n/k 1909 Alvara, Alverstoke, Hants[?]
Army officer Served in Seaforth Highlanders (72nd) in the Crimea (medal with clasp and Turkish medal), and in the Indian Mutiny; severely wounded (three wounds) in the storming of Kotah (medal, clasp and VC, promoted Captain); commanded King’s Own Borderers, 1881Ð83; chief of the Intelligence Department, 1883-‐86; Commandant Royal Military College, Sandhurst, 1886-‐88
Campbell, Isabella, Mrs Army 1842 n/k 1929 Lymington widow of General Colin Campbell CB
Carlyon, Gerald Winstanley, Funds etc 1846 Mevagissey 1924 Lymington Living On Own Means Carnegie, David John, 10th Earl of Northesk
Army 1865 n/k 1921 n/k Captain 3rd Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment since 1888; a Representative Peer for Scotland
Carnegie, David Ludovic George Hopetoun, 11th Earl of Northesk
Aristocracy 1901 n/k 1963 n/k Hon. Major, Intelligence Corps; late 2nd Lt Coldstream Guards; Representative Peer for Scotland, 1959Ð63
Carter, Eric, Not Known n/k n/k n/k n/k n/k
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Name Background Birthdate Birthplace Date of death Place of death Notes Castleman, Charles, Esq., JP Not known n/k n/k n/k n/k Solicitor and director of Dorchester
and Southampton Railway. Caulfield, Algernon Thomas St. George,
Not Known 1870 n/k 1933 London, Chelsea n/k
Chapman, Frank Emerson, Professions 1865 Horncastle, Lincs n/k n/k Headmaster Chawner, Frances Sarah, Mrs Professions 1842 Reading,
Berkshire 1925 New Forest Widow of Rev. C. H. Fox Chawner of
Bletchingly Rectory, Surrey d. 1888 Churchill, Edward Spencer, Lord
Aristocracy 1853 n/k 1911 n/k Isle of Wight Artillery Militia
Clarke, William John, CBE Professions 1857 Haddenham, Bucks
1937? Ledbury, Herefordshire?
Civil Service
Clifton, William S., Esq. Not Known n/k n/k n/k n/k n/k Close, Granville, Col., R.E. Army 1828 Gloucestershire n/k n/k Army officer Clough, Arthur Hugh, Land 1860 London 1943 Salisbury,
Wiltshire Land Owner, son of the poet
Clough, Blanche Athena, Miss Professions 1862 Surrey Kingston on Thames
n/k n/k Vice Principal Of Newnham College Cambridge
Clough, Blanche Mary, Mrs Widow n/k n/k n/k n/k widow of Arthur Hugh Clough Cockeran, Thomas Brune, Not Known n/k n/k n/k n/k n/k Coke, Thomas William, 4th Earl of Leicester (Viscount Coke)
Aristocracy 1880 n/k 1949 n/k Late Major in Scots Guards, British Peer
Compton, Henry Combe, Esq. Land 1788 Bisterne 1866 New Forest Landed Proprietor Compton, Henry, DL Not known 1814 Minstead 1871x1881? n/k Magistrate Compton, Francis, MP, MA, DCL, JP
Law 1824 Middx 1915 New Forest Barrister, JP, MP
Compton, Harriet, Mrs Widow 1844 Willesbourne 1909 n/k Widow of Henry Compton Compton, Henry Francis, Esq. Land 1872 Minstead 1943 n/k Lord of the Manor and Official
Verderer Compton, George, Not Known 1873 Minstead n/k n/k n/k Compton, Mrs Widow n/k n/k n/k n/k widow of George Compton? Connell, Margaret W., Mrs Not Known 1845 St Marylebone
London 1925 Lymington n/k
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Name Background Birthdate Birthplace Date of death Place of death Notes Connell, Arthur Knatchbull, Land 1851 Nutfield Redhill
Surrey 1914 Lymington Private means derived from land
Cook, Wyndham F., Mrs Commerce 1856 n/k 1925 n/k Widow of a partner in the firm of Messrs. Cook, Son, and Co., wholesale drapers and warehousemen
Coote, Stanley Victor, Esq. Navy 1863 n/k 1925 n/k son of Admiral Coote of Shales Private House, South Stoneham
Cosens, Bessie J., Mrs Professions 1863 Surbiton Surrey 1938 New Forest Member of the N U W S Society; widow of physician
Coulson, Mrs Not Known n/k n/k n/k n/k n/k Cox, John Robert, Not Known n/k n/k n/k n/k n/k Crawford, Annabella, Mrs Funds etc 1825 Middx 1895 Stockbridge Income from interest of money; da.
b. Italy 1858 Crawford, John Halket, Lt.-‐Col. Army 1842 n/k 1919 Christchurch 32nd Lancers, Indian Army Crawford, Gertrude Eleanor, Lady
Aristocracy 1868 n/k 1937 Lymington da. of 4th E. of Sefton
Crompton Stansfield, Mary Evelyn Maud, Miss
Army 1862 Middledrift Cape Colony
1946 n/k da. of Maj-‐Gen. Crompton Stansfield of Esholt Hall and Buckden House in Yorkshire
Crosthwaite Eyre, O., Mrs Not known n/k n/k n/k n/k n/k Cumberbatch, Ethel, Mrs Widow n/k n/k n/k n/k n/k Cumming, Mansfield Smith, Captain
Navy 1859 Blackheath 1923 Kensington Naval Officer
Cunliffe-‐Owen, Charles, Brig.-‐Gen, CB, CMG
Army n/k n/k n/k n/k Army officer
Dale, Clement, J.P. Law 1806 n/k 1890 n/k JP [Judge in Madras?] Dalrymple, Francis Bertram, Major
Army 1851 Paddington 1932 Bartley Lodge Major, Royal Artillery, Retired
Dalton, Charles, Major-‐General
Army n/k n/k n/k n/k Army officer
Darling, Charles John, Sir, JP Law 1849 Colchester 1936 Lymington Justice of the High Court of Justice Dashwood, William Bateman, Admiral
Navy n/k n/k n/k n/k Naval officer
187
Name Background Birthdate Birthplace Date of death Place of death Notes Davis, Sarah, Mrs Not Known 1813 Yeovil 1902 Ringwood n/k Davis, James, Funds etc 1814 Marnhull, 1895 Ringwood Living On Own Means Davis, Barbara and Harriet, Misses
Son/daughter n/k n/k n/k n/k das. of James Davis
de la Warr, Dowager Countess Aristocracy n/k n/k n/k n/k Aristocracy de Sales La Terriere, Fenwick Bulmer, Col., JP
Army 1856 Alstone, Glos 1925 Lepe Exon in Waiting of the King’s Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard
Denison, William Henry Forester, 1st Earl of Londesborough
Aristocracy 1834 n/k 1900 n/k Liberal politician
Dent, Mr Professions n/k n/k n/k n/k Plymouth Brother Deprez, Edmund, Arts/letters 1851 Belgium 1915 New Forest Art dealer Dick, J. P., Not Known n/k n/k n/k n/k n/k Dickinson, William, Esq. Farmer 1795 St Georges, Middx 1874 Lymington Farmer occupying 270 acres,
employing 17 men and 4 boys (1861)
Dickson, Ellen ÒDoloresÓ, Miss
Arts/letters 1819 Woolwich 1878 n/k Fund holder (1861) (song-‐writer and singer)
Dickson, Laur[ett]a Emmeline, Lady
Not known 1839 Pembroke 1890 Wilverley Park widow of Sir. W. Dickson
Doughty, Henry Montagu, Funds etc 1841 Suffolk 1916 Suffolk Private Means Doughty, Misses Son/daughter n/k n/k n/k n/k Four daughters of Henry Doughty Douglas, Edward, Hon. Aristocracy n/k n/k n/k n/k son of the Earl of Morton Douglas-‐Scott-‐Montagu, Henry John, Lord Henry Scott, later 1st Baron Montagu of Beaulieu (Lord Henry Scott)
Aristocracy 1832 n/k 1905 n/k Conservative Party Politician
Douglas-‐Scott-‐Montagu, John Walter Edward, 2nd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu, KCIE, CSI, FZS, VD, DL, JP
Aristocracy 1866 London 1929 London Conservative politician and promoter of motoring
Downman, Charles Backhouse,
Funds etc 1864 Norwich n/k n/k Living On His Own Means
188
Name Background Birthdate Birthplace Date of death Place of death Notes Drummond, Mary Margaret, Miss
Commerce 1833 Pimlico 1917 Lymington Banking
Drummond, Andrew Cecil, DL, JP
Commerce 1865 n/k 1913 n/k Banking
Drummond, Maldwin, Capt, JP Commerce 1872 n/k 1929 n/k Principal of Drummonds Private Bank, in 1924 merged with RBS, where he was member of local board of directors until his death
Drummond, Cyril, Major Army 1873 n/k 1945 n/k Army officer Drummond, Andrew Robert, Esq
Commerce n/k n/k n/k n/k Banker
Drummond, Edgar Atheling, Esq.
Commerce n/k n/k 1893 n/k Banker
Drummond, Andrew John, Commerce n/k n/k n/k n/k Banker Du Cane, Mrs Not Known n/k n/k n/k n/k n/k Duckworth, William, Esq. Not Known n/k n/k n/k n/k n/k Duncan, Jane Hart Matthews, Mrs
Professions 1839 St Mungos, Lockerbie
1915 New Forest Widow of obstetric physician [to Queen Victoria]
Duncan, Alexander Lauderdale,
Funds etc 1851 Edinburgh 1934 Steyning, Sussex Private Means
Duplessis, Jules, Funds etc 1834 France 1913 Newtown Park Private Means Duplessis, Jules Gaston, JP Funds etc 1859 Boldre 1956 New Forest Private Means Eaden, Henry W., Law 1852 Cambridge 1925 Cuckfield Barrister & Farmer Easterbrook, James, Professions 1852 Devonshire Dean
Prior 1923 Mentone Retired Headmaster Grammar
school Edwards, Sampson, Lieut. Navy 1797 Morgate, Hants 1878 Burley Lieut Royal Navy Half Pay 18 Acres
Of Land Emp’g 8 Labourers Esdaile, William Clement Drake, Esq., JP
Land 1820 Bayborough, Somerset
1899 London JP Living on own means
Everett, William, Not known 1814 Ludgershall n/k n/k Magistrate Eyre, Mary M., Mrs Publishing 1849 London 1933 New Forest possibly wife of G. E. Briscoe Eyre,
HM Printer, JP and Verderer Fairley, William Cunningham, Empire 1834 n/k 1890 BurNew
Forestord House retired from Anderson, Fairley and Gray, East India Brokers
189
Name Background Birthdate Birthplace Date of death Place of death Notes Fenwick, George John, Commerce 1822 circa Newcastle upon
Tyne 1913 n/k Banker and owner of FenwickÕs
Brewery, Chester-‐le-‐Street Fenwick, Sophia Rachel, Miss Son/daughter 1857 Aston Hall
Derbyshire 1932 Allum Green da. of George Fenwick
Ferguson, Spencer Charles, Major, OBE
Army 1868 Richmond, Surrey 1958 Surrey North Western
Army officer, JP for Cumberland and the borough of Carlisle
Field, Samuel, Mr Land 1804 Oxfordshire n/k n/k Landowner Firth, William Eustace, JP Industry 1862 York County
Heckmondwike 1923 n/k Carpet Manufacturer
Firth, Anna Maria, Mrs Industry 1865 Manchester or Broughton, Lancs
1937 Hurstly? widow of Firth
Fisher, Jane, Miss Professions 1797 n/k 1877 Whitley Ridge youngest da. of the late Rev. Philip Fisher, DD, Master of Charterhouse
Fisher, Herbert, Not Known n/k n/k n/k n/k n/k Fletcher, William Morris, JP Empire 1847 India Bombay 1915x20 n/k Indian Civil Service (Retired) Fleuret, John B., Esq. Commerce 1869 n/k 1950? n/k Of Fleuret, Adams & Haxell ,
property brokers? Forman, John Ball, Funds etc 1864 Marylebone,
London 1900 New Forest Living On My Own Means
Forman, Dora Margaret, Widow 1867 Westminster, London
1931 Lymington widow of John Ball Forman
Forman, Geoffrey Reginald, Funds etc 1893 Boldre n/k n/k Private Means, son of John Ball Forman
Forster, John, Major Army 1827 Southend, Lewisham, Kent
1886 New Forest Army officer
Forster, Emily, Mrs Widow 1837 Thingwell, Cheshire
n/k n/k Widow
Forster, Henry William, Lord, PC, GCMG
Army 1866 Catford, Kent, 1936 London Conservative Party politician who became the seventh Governor-‐General of Australia
Fowler, J. Kingston, Sir, KCVO, MA, MD
Professions 1852 Woburn, Bedfordshire
1934 WardenÕs Lodge, Beaulieu
Physician; Warden of Beaulieu Abbey
Fulcher, Arthur William, Maj., JP
Army n/k n/k n/k n/k Army officer
190
Name Background Birthdate Birthplace Date of death Place of death Notes Galloway, J. M. C., Mrs Not Known n/k n/k n/k n/k n/k Gaussen, Alicia Fenton, Mrs Professions 1839 Madras, India 1913 New Forest Widow of Mr. James Robert
Gaussen (surgeon?), da. of William Henry Bayley (Madras Civil Service in 1831).
Gibbs, Antony Edmund, Commerce 1842? London 1907? Somerset, Long Ashton
Banking family (Antony Gibbs and Sons Ltd, merchants and foreign bankers)?
Gibson, Henry, Mr Not Known n/k n/k n/k n/k n/k (retired Land steward?) Gilbert, Edward, Major Land 1784 Eling 1868 n/k Major in the S. Hants Militia (1851)
Landed Proprietor (1861) Gilbert, William, General Army n/k n/k n/k n/k Army officer Glyn, St Leger Richard, Hon. Commerce 1825 n/k 1870 Bramble Hill
Lodge Son of banker
Glyn, Florence Elizabeth, Mrs Widow 1829 n/k 1887 Kingston, Surrey widow of St Leger Glyn Goldfinch, John Howard, Mr Funds etc 1820 n/k n/k n/k Income From Interest of Money Goodenough, Lucy, Not known 1826 Middx n/k n/k twin sister of Annabella Crawford Goodenough, Herbert Lane, Lt-‐Col.
Army n/k n/k n/k n/k Army officer
Goodhart, James Frederick, Professions 1846 London n/k n/k Physician Goold-‐Adams, Samuel Hamilton, Mr
Not known 1815 Ireland 1884 Chilworth Towers, nr Romsey
No Profession
Gore, Catherine Grace Frances , Mrs
Arts/letters 1799/1800 London or East Rhetford, Nottinghamshire
1861 Linwood Novelist
Gossling, Philip James, Farmer 1855 Eling, Hampshire 1909 Lymington Farmer, employer Graham, Reginald, Bart Aristocracy 1836 Norton Conyers,
Yorks 1920 Ripon, Yorks Bart, Author of Fox-‐hunting
recollections (1908) Grant, Seafield Falkland Murray Treasure, Lt-‐Gen.
Army 1834 Elichpoor, Decca, India
1910 n/k Indian Staff Corps
Grant, Mary A., Mrs Army 1861 Ealing, Middx 1927 New Forest Widow of army officer Grant, William Alexander, Capt.
Army 1862 Scotland n/k n/k Retired Captain Cavalry
191
Name Background Birthdate Birthplace Date of death Place of death Notes Greathed, William Wilberforce Harris, Colonel
Army 1826 Paris 1878 London Army officer, Bengal Engineers, distinguished and wounded at Delhi in the Indian Mutiny; later head of Irrigation Dept in UP
Greathed, Alice, Mrs Widow n/k n/k n/k n/k Widow of Colonel Greathed Gross, Mrs Not Known n/k n/k n/k n/k n/k Gurney-‐Dixon, Samuel, MD, MA
Professions 1878 n/k 1970 n/k Doctor
Hall, William Reginald, Sir, Admiral, KCMG, CB, DCL, LLD
Navy 1870 n/k n/k n/k Naval officer
Hamilton, Andrew, Professions n/k n/k n/k n/k Surgeon Hanbury, Daniel, Esq. Industry 1876 Croydon, Surrey 1948 Castle Malwood One of the Directors of Allen and
Hanbury, the makers of baby food products
Harcourt, William George Granville Vernon-‐, Sir, MP, PC, QC, MA
Aristocracy 1827 Yorkshire 1904 Nuneham Politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer
Harcourt, Elizabeth, Lady Widow 1841 Boston, USA n/k n/k widow of politician Harcourt, Robert Vernon, Son/daughter 1879 London n/k n/k son of Sir Robert Hardcastle, Thomas Augustus, Industry 1867 Bradshaw,
Lancashire 1941 Witney, Oxon Private Means; son of Calico
Printer of Bradshaw, Lancs; Mechanical Student in 1891
Hargreaves, Jonathan, Esq. Commerce 1812 Oakenshaw, Lancs
1862 Rome Magistrate & Merchant in Accrington, in 1851 census
Hargreaves, Reginald Gervis, Esq.
Land 1853 Accrington, Lancs 1926 New Forest (Vol) Lt Yeomanry Cavalry[Landowner?]
Hargreaves, Caryl Liddell, Capt
Navy 1887 Boscombe 1955 1955 Naval ? officer
Hargreaves, Anna, Mrs Widow n/k n/k 1872 n/k widow of Jonathan Hargreaves Hartopp, Mrs Not Known n/k n/k n/k n/k n/k Hatchard, Frank Sumner Utterton,
Professions 1862 St Nicholas Rectory Guildford
n/k n/k Private means; son of Rector of Guildford
192
Name Background Birthdate Birthplace Date of death Place of death Notes Hawker, Peter, Navy 1853 Inverurie,
Aberdeenshire, Scotland
n/k n/k Naval officer?
Hawkins, Henry Beauchamp, Rev. Canon
Professions n/k n/k n/k n/k Clergyman
Headley, Miss Not Known n/k n/k n/k n/k n/k Heath, Capt. Navy n/k n/k n/k n/k Naval officer Heathcote, Ann Sophia, Miss Funds etc 1787 Melksham, Wilts n/k n/k Annuitant Heathcote, Latitia, Miss Funds etc 1791 Melksham, Wilts n/k n/k Annuitant Heathcote, Edmund, Admiral Navy 1814 Hants 1881 n/k Naval officer Heathcote, Selina, Dowager Lady
Widow 1815 Ettington, 1901 New Forest Widow
Heathcote, Jessie, Mrs Widow 1826 Halifax, Nova Scotia
1915 New Forest widow of Edmund Heathcote
Heathcote, Charles George, Col., J. P.
Army 1844 London 1924 New Forest Retired Major Army Land Owner
Henderson, Miss Not Known n/k n/k n/k n/k n/k Herbert, Auberon Edward Molyneux, Hon.
Professions 1838 London 1906 Old House, Burley
Journalist
Herbert, Auberon Thomas, Lord Lucas & Dingwall
Aristocracy 1876 Lymington 1916 n/k Aristocracy
Herbert, Nan T., Miss (later Lady Lucas and Dingwall)
Aristocracy 1881 Ringstead, Dorset n/k n/k Aristocracy
Hewitt, Archibald Robert, 6th Viscount Lifford
Aristocracy 1844 n/k 1925 n/k Aristocracy
Hibberd, Henry Jukes, Professions 1847 Exmoor Devon 1923 Lymington General Medical Practitioner Hicks, George Murray, Arts/letters 1855 St Pancras,
London 1933 New Forest Landscape artist
Hill, Charles, Mr Empire 1823 unknown 1874 Castle Malwood Coffee planter from Ceylon Hill, Mr Not Known n/k n/k n/k n/k n/k Hindson, Hon. Mrs Not Known n/k n/k n/k n/k n/k Hodgkinson, Richard, Esq. Not Known n/k n/k n/k n/k n/k
193
Name Background Birthdate Birthplace Date of death Place of death Notes Howard, John Henry, Funds etc 1848 Great
Witchingham, Norfolk
1902 New Forest Living On Own Means
Howard, Sarah Constance, Mrs Widow 1853 Middlesex London
1929 New Forest widow of John Henry Howard
Hudson, Frederick B., Mr, MA Not Known n/k n/k n/k n/k n/k Huleatt, Cornelia Sophia, Mrs Professions 1834 London 1912 New Forest widow of clergyman Huleatt, Irene, Miss Professions 1883 Herne Bay, Kent n/k n/k da. of clergyman Humphery, Herbert Charles, Commerce 1858 Clapham 1925 West Ilsley Underwriter Lloyds Jaffray, John Munton, JP Publishing 1853 n/k 1906 n/k 2nd son of Sir John Jaffray, 1st Bart,
founder of the Birmingham Daily Post in 1857, and the Birmingham Mail in 1870
Jameson, Arthur B., Funds etc 1865 Warwick n/k n/k Private Means Jeffreys, John, Esq., J. P. Not known 1846 Pimlico 1922 New Forest JP Jeffreys, Florence Hall, Mrs Widow 1848 Marylebone 1942 New Forest widow of John Jeffreys Jeffreys, John William, Colonel Army 1876 Bournemouth 1962 New Forest Army officer, son of John Jeffreys Jemmett-‐Browne, Jemmett, Professions 1833 Cheltenham, Glos 1897 n/k Student Of Lincolns Inn Clerk Of
Civil Service Board of Trade, 1861; Barrister, poet and novelist
Jervis-‐Smith, Frederick John, Rev., MA, FRS
Professions 1848 Taunton 1911 Battramsley House
University Lecturer in Mechanics; Millard Lecturer in Experimental Mechanics and Engineering, Trinity College, Oxford
Jones, David, Esq. Farmer 1820 Montgomeryshire 1915 Lymington Farmer (1901) Own means (1891) Land owner (1881)
Kaye, William, Empire 1838 London, WC 1926 Upton House, Bitton, Bristol
Indian Civil Service
Kelly, Edward Festus, Publishing 1854 n/k 1939 Donnington Castle House, Newbury
Chairman and Managing Director of Kelly’s Directories (Publisher, retired, 1901)
Kennedy, James Martin, MD Professions 1850 Ireland 1905 Durmast, Burley Medical Practitioner
194
Name Background Birthdate Birthplace Date of death Place of death Notes Kidgel, James, Commerce 1842 Baddesley n/k n/k Lodging and boarding house
keeper Knapton, Antony G. L., Capt. Navy n/k n/k n/k n/k Naval officer Knapton-‐Knapton, Augustus Lempriere, Captain
Navy 1855 Boldre 1922 Rope Hill Naval officer
Knight, Herbert, Esq. Professions n/k n/k n/k n/k Architect Large, Robert Emmott, FRGS Law 1846 St Thomas,
Salisbury, Wilts 1926 Lymington retired solicitor
Leach, Reginald Pemberton, Col., CMG, JP
Army n/k n/k n/k n/k Army officer
Lee, Mrs Not Known n/k n/k n/k n/k n/k Leech, Stephen, Sir, K.C.M.G. Professions 1864 Stockport,
Cheshire 1925 Lyndhurst Diplomat, retired in 1920
Leech, William Harold, Industry 1874 Manchester Lancs
1954 New Forest Private Means, eldest son of William Leech, Merchant & Cotton Manufr Employs 1400 Hands (1881 census)
Leese, Vernon Francis, Professions 1870 London n/k n/k Deputy Surveyor H M Forest Of Dean in 1901
Leuchars, Raymond, Industry 1882 Wandsworth 1927 Hove, Sussex [no occupation in 1911], son of William Leuchars, Manufr Of Fancy Goods (Textile 17/5)
Liddell, John, Capt. Navy 1848 Wilts ? n/k Naval Officer (RM) Lillingston, Frederick G. Innes, Lt.
Navy 1850 Scotland 1904 Newton Abbot Naval officer
Lister-‐Kay, Ellis Cunliffe Lister, Esq.
Funds etc 1848 Addingham, Yorks
n/k n/k Living on own means
Logan, Francis Carleton Logan, Major
Army 1864 Sussex, E. Grinstead
n/k n/k Army officer
Londesborough, Edith, Lady Aristocracy 1839 n/k n/k n/k wife of Lord Londesborough Lovell, Francis Frederick, Esq., JP
Not known 1821 Malmesbury 1906 Lymington J P Co Southampton
Lovell, Maud R., Miss Son/daughter 1861 London 1941 New Forest da. of Francis Lovell Lubbock, Hon. Mrs Not Known n/k n/k n/k n/k n/k
195
Name Background Birthdate Birthplace Date of death Place of death Notes Lucas, Edward Lingard, Industry 1860 Roehampton 1936 London Grandson of Thomas Lucas of
Messrs Lucas Brothers, builders and contractors
Lushington, Margaret, Lady Empire 1813 Lyndhurst n/k n/k Lady by title, wife of Frederick Astell Lushington, Bengal Civil Service (d. 1862)
Lushington, Frederick Astell, Mr, JP
Empire 1815 London 1892 Lyndhurst Career in India 1835-‐62
Lushington, William Bryant, Law 1825 n/k 1888 Christchurch Barrister not in practice Lushington, Augusta V., Mrs Widow 1843 Stratford, Surrey n/k n/k widow of William B. Lushington Lushington, Algernon Hay, Funds etc 1848 Lyndhurst n/k n/k Income Derived From Dividends,
son of Lady Margaret Lushington Lyman-‐Dixon, Alfred Charles Hugh, Major
Army 1858 n/k 1937 n/k Army Officer
Lyon, Arthur Owen, Law 1853 Castle Church, Staffs
n/k n/k Farmer & Barrister At Law
Lyon, Alfred Owen, Not Known n/k n/k n/k n/k n/k Macleay, Alexander Caldcleugh, Major
Army 1843 Middlesex London England
1907 Sussex, Eastbourne
Army officer
Macpherson, Evan, Maj. Army 1802 n/k 1874 n/k Army Officer Mainwaring-‐Sladen, [Catherine Frances], Miss
Not known 1846 n/k 1943 Funchal, Madeira
possibly da. of Joseph Sladen of Hartsbourne Manor, Bushey
Mair, John, Mr Not known 1848/50 Scotland 1902 n/k Honorary Whip To The Otter Hounds
Maitland, Reginald Paynter, Capt., RA
Army 1851 Southsea Hants 1926 New Forest Retired Capt Royal Artillery
Maitland, Reginald Charles Frederick, Lt-‐Col, DSO, JP
Army 1882 n/k 1939 n/k Late RA
Malcolm, Louisa, Mrs Land 1819 Lower Eastington, Warwicks
1887 New Forest Landed Proprietor
Martin, Francis P. B., Not Known 1815 Madras Billory 1890 New Forest n/k (ICS?) Martineau, Cyril, Commerce 1872 Paddington,
London n/k n/k Stock Jobber-‐Stock Exchange Agent
196
Name Background Birthdate Birthplace Date of death Place of death Notes Maryon-‐Wilson, Spencer Pocklington, Sir, 11th Bart
Aristocracy 1860 Bembridge, IoW 1944? n/k n/k
Maskew, John S., Professions n/k n/k n/k n/k Physician & Surgeon (Retired) Massie, Roger Henry, Brig-‐Gen, CB, CMG
Army 1869 n/k 1927 n/k Royal Artillery
Master, Charles Hoskins, Capt. Army 1878 Sandgate, Kent 1960 Oxted, Surrey Army officer; JP; Chairman, Friary, Holroyd and HealyÕs Breweries Ltd
Matcham, George Henry Eyre, Funds etc 1862 Whiteparish, Wilts
1939 Salisbury, Wilts J P Living On Own Means
Matcham (nee Glyn), Constance Gertrude, Mrs
Commerce n/k n/k n/k n/k da. of St Leger Glyn
Mather, William, Sir Industry 1838 John Street, Manchester
1920 Bramble Hill Lodge
Mechanical engineer and textile equipment manufacturer;Chairman of Mather and Platt machine engineering
Mather, Loris Emerson, Mr Industry 1886 n/k 1976 n/k Manager of Mather and Platt Mathews, Francis Claughton, MA
Law 1833 n/k 1924 New Forest London solicitor in the firm Mathews (F. C.) & Co.
Maxwell, John, Esq. Publishing 1820 n/k 1895 n/k Publisher May, Frere, Mrs Not Known n/k n/k n/k n/k n/k Mayall, Mrs Not Known n/k n/k n/k n/k n/k McCall, Gen. Army n/k n/k n/k n/k Army Officer McCalmont, Barklie Cairns, Col., CB, JP
Army 1861 S Stoneham n/k n/k Colonel HM Army Retired
McTaggart, James, Esq. Funds etc 1815 Fulham, London n/k n/k Gentleman Meade-‐Waldo, Edmund Gustave Bloomfield,
Aristocracy 1855 Holly Brook, Co. Cork
1934 n/k son of Edmund Waldo Meade-‐Waldo of Hever Castle (Meades were an Irish gentry family)
Meares, J. H., Major Army n/k n/k 1955 n/k Army officer Meischke-‐Smith, William, Esq. Professions 1869 n/k 1931 Knightsbridge Engineer Meyrick, George Augustus Elliott Tapps Gervis, Sir
Industry 1855 n/k 1928 n/k Son of the landowner and developer, MFH until 1884-‐5 (De Crespigny & Hutchinson)
197
Name Background Birthdate Birthplace Date of death Place of death Notes Milburn, Edith, Mrs Industry 1862 Huntingdonshire
St Ives n/k n/k widow of William Milburn (1857-‐
1908), shipowner of Blythe, Northumberland
Miller, Henry Hugh L., Not Known n/k n/k n/k n/k n/k Mills, Dudley Acland, Col. Professions 1860 n/k 1938 London W 8 Royal Academician Mitchell, Harry, Funds etc 1858 Bradford,
Yorkshire n/k n/k Private Means
Mitford, Henry Reveley, Esq. Not Known n/k n/k n/k n/k n/k Moate, Mary, Miss Commerce 1843 Kent Blackheath 1913 Lymington da. of Charles Robert Moate (b.
1812), Merchant (Metal) Broker (bankrupt 1866?)
Moens, Anne, Mrs Widow 1828 Crompton, Surrey 1916 Lymington widow of W. J. C. Moens Moens, William John Charles, Commerce 1833 London 1904 Boldre Antiquary, second son of Jacob
Bernelot Mšens (b. 1796), Dutch West Indies merchant
Mole, Roland Thornicroft, Industry 1869 Edgbaston Warwickshire
1940 Bournemouth, Dorset
Sword and Matchet Manufacturer
Montagu Douglas Scott, Walter Francis, 5th Duke of Buccleuch
Aristocracy 1806 Dalkeith House, Midlothian
1884 Bowhill, Selkirkshire
Privy Counsellor
Montgomrey, Samuel Hynman, JP
Not known 1857 England n/k n/k JP
Morant, John, JP, DL Land 1825 Brockenhurst 1899 n/k JP, Landowner Morant, William S., Army 1829 Brockenhurst 1879 Wycombe, Bucks Officer Retired Morant, Flora Jane, Mrs Widow 1833 Bekesbourne,
Kent 1915 Lymington widow of John Morant d. 1899
Morant, Edward John Harry Eden, JP
Son/daughter 1868 Middx 1910 Lymington son of John and Flora Morant
Morant, Kathleen, Lady (later Lady Hare)
Widow 1884 London 1971 New Forest widow of Edward Morant d. 1910
Morgan, Ada Maria, Lady Empire 1831 Middlesex 1884 Kensington Wife of Walter Morgan (b. 1822), Knight Bachelor Pensioned Late Chief Justice Madras High Court
Morgan, Gerard Hervey, Land 1865 Norwich n/k n/k Land Agent
198
Name Background Birthdate Birthplace Date of death Place of death Notes Mudge, Richard Rosdew, Esq. Funds etc 1796 Brampford
Speke, Devon 1885 n/k Gentm On Ye Superannuation Of
Woods & Forest Murray, Hugh, Sir, CIE, CBE, JP Professions 1861 Wetheral, Cumb. 1941 Salisbury, Wilts
ie Bramble Hill? Forestry Commissioner, 1924-‐34
Napier, Arthur Wilson, Professions 1871 Devonport, Devon
n/k n/k Clergyman Established Church
Nevill, Dudley Frederick, Law 1873 Tamworth, Warwick
1952 Christchurch Private Means (Tutor in Bromley in 1901), son of a solicitor
Norbury, C. G., Army n/k n/k n/k n/k Army officer, Rifle Brigade? Northcote, Hugh Howard Stafford,
Not Known 1888 America New York
n/k n/k n/k
Nunn, George, Dr Professions 1845 Lyndhurst 1891? Bromley, Kent? General Practitioner and Medical Man MRCP LRCP
Orde, Julian Walter, Sir Commerce 1861 Hopton Suffolk 1929 Norfolk, Loddon Automobilist, company director, secretary of the RAC
Parker, Richard, General Army 1803 Marylebone 1885 Castle Malwood Colonel of 5th Dragoon Guards Parnell, John Brooke Molesworth, 6th Baron Congleton
Aristocracy 1892 n/k 1932 n/k Peer
Patterson, Julian Edward Chichester, Rev.
Professions 1852 Lichfield Staffordshire
1939 Overbrook, Brockenhurst
Clerk In Holy Orders
Patton, Samuel, Revd. Professions n/k n/k n/k n/k Congregationalist Minister Pearson, James, Mr Not Known n/k n/k n/k n/k n/k Peel, Lawrence, Funds etc 1836 Willingham n/k n/k Living On His Own Means Pellerin, Auguste, Monsieur Industry n/k n/k n/k n/k Margarine factory owner Pember, Edward Henry, JP, QC, MA
Law 1833 Streatham Surrey 1911 VicarÕs Hill Barrister at Law, King’s Council
Penton, Edward, Esq Commerce 1846 London St Pancras
1926 Cavendish Square
Leather Merchant
Perkins, Norman Chichester, Maj.
Army 1861 Dalhousie India 1939 Surrey Major Indian Army: Retired
Perkins, Walter Frank, MP Professions 1865 Southampton 1946 n/k Surveyor and land agent (1901) Surveyor Consulting (1911)
199
Name Background Birthdate Birthplace Date of death Place of death Notes Peto, Morton Kelsall, Esq. Arts/letters 1846 Marylebone 1921 n/k Landscape artist, partner in family
building business Phelps, Sarah, Mrs Land 1807/11 Upwey,
Dorsetshire 1879 Ringwood Landed Proprietress
Phelps, Thomas, Rev. Professions 1833 Alton Pancras, Dorset
n/k n/k Clerk In Holy Orders
Phillipson, John Thorpe Burton, Esq.
Industry 1800 Suffolk 1880? n/k His first wife was the daughter of Turner, famous for blacking, and she ran away with Mr. Phillipson [sic], so Mr Turner gave his large fortune to her son, cutting out the husband [p. 38] on the condition that the son took the name of Turner-‐Turner and he was to have the money when he came of age.
Pigott, Wellesley P., Mrs Professions 1833 Welsbourne Hale, Warwickshire
1899 Sussex, Midhurst wife of Rector of Bemerton, da. of General Robbins
Pinckney, Hubert, Commerce 1864 Salisbury, Wiltshire
1952 New Forest son of Banker, JP and Landowner William Pinkney of Alderbury
Poore, Agnes, Lady Aristocracy 1800 Eccles, Berwickshire, Scotland
1868? Alderbury wife of Sir Edward, 2nd Bart
Poore, Edward, Sir, 3rd Bart. Empire 1826 n/k 1893 Australia Emigrated to seek his fortune in Australia, Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), 3 Feb. 1894
Popham, Alexander Hugh L., Esq.
Land 1821 Chilton, Wilts 1866 Marylebone Land Owner (1861); Fundholder (1851)
Potter, Cyril Charlie Hamilton, Army 1878 Glos Fullwood Park Cheltenham
n/k n/k Capt St Battn Kings R Rifles
Powell, William Martin, Capt. Army 1825 Wantage, Berks n/k n/k Army officer (Lt Col) Powell, Mary Grace, [Miss] Son/daughter 1868 Lyndhurst n/k n/k da. of William Martin Powell Powell, Henry Martin, Esq. Funds etc 1869 Lyndhurst n/k n/k Private Means Powell, E. W. Martin, Brig.-‐Gen., CB, CMG, DSO
Army 1869 n/k 1954 n/k Army officer
200
Name Background Birthdate Birthplace Date of death Place of death Notes Preston, William Robert, Esq. Land 1809 [Walton], Lancs n/k n/k Landed Proprietor Fund Holder Preston, Mrs Funds etc 1824 Christchurch 1892 London,
Hanover Sq Deriving income from dividends, annuity, w[ife]? of William Robert Preston
Preston, Frances A. M., Mrs Widow 1833 France n/k n/k widow, annuitant Preston, William Dean, Son/daughter 1872 India n/k n/k son of Mrs Frances Preston, Widow Price, Owen Talbot, Esq. Farmer 1869 Kingston-‐upon-‐
Thames OR Surbiton
1963 New Forest Farmer (1911) Gentleman Independent (1901)
Price, Henry Noble, Not Known n/k n/k n/k n/k n/k Pulteney, John Granville Beaumont, JP
Son/daughter 1836 n/k 1875 n/k grandson of John Pulteney d. 1849 (VCH, Lymington)
Pulteney, Isabella, Mrs Widow 1838 London 1920 n/k widow of J. G. B. Pulteney Pulteney, Keppel, JP, CC Land 1869 London
Westminster 1944 n/k Landowner, son of JGB Pulteney
(VCH, Lymington) Pulteney, Sybil Frances, Miss Not known 1872 St Leonards-‐on-‐
Sea 1955 New Forest da. of J. G. B. Pulteney
Pye, Peter Grieg, Industry 1863 Dysart, Fife 1941 New Forest son of James Pye, Linen Manufacturer of Fife, 1891, 1901 himself Linen Manuf in Kirkcaldy, 1911 n/f in census
Rawnsley, Willingham Franklin, JP, MA Oxon
Professions 1845 Little Hadham, Hertfordshire
1927 Hambledon, Surrey
School Master
Ricardo, John Lewis, Esq. Industry 1813 Walthamstow, Essex
1862 Chelsea, London MP for Stoke-‐upon-‐Trent
Richardson, Marinne, Mrs Not known 1824 Scotland n/k n/k Widow Richardson, Robert Young, Empire 1846 Glasgow 1884 Stydd House Son of East India Merchant And
Landowner and himself East India Merchant
Ridley, Edward P. C., Sir, MA, PC
Law 1843 n/k 1928 n/k Justice of the High Court of Justice
Ridout, Charles E., Professions 1859 Sandhurst, Kent 1933 Gosport Head Master Boys Preparatory School
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Name Background Birthdate Birthplace Date of death Place of death Notes Rivett-‐Carnac, John, Sir, Bart. Empire 1818 n/k 1883 n/k Son of James R-‐C, Governor of
Bombay; MP for Lymington 1852-‐60
Robbins, Thomas William, Lieut. Genl.
Army 1789 Boldre 1864 New Forest Army officer
Robbins, Fanny, Mrs Farmer 1802 Marylebone n/k n/k 100 acres employing 5 labourers Robbins, George, Esq Not known 1802 West Wellow,
Hants n/k n/k Magistrate and [Major?] of Militia
Roberts, Harriet, Mrs Arts/letters 1806 Chatham, Kent n/k n/k Poetess Rosoman, Richard, Not known 1827 Brighton n/k n/k House owner Rothschild, Lionel Nathan de, OBE, JP, MP
Commerce 1882 n/k 1942 n/k banker and politician
Ryder, Archibald Dudley, Hon. Commerce 1867 n/k 1950 Durns, Beaulieu Senior partner at Coutts Bank Sackville, Reginald Windsor, 7th Earl de la Warr, MA, DL, JP
Aristocracy 1817 St George Hanover Square, London
1896 n/k Peer; Living On His Own Means
Samuelson, Godfrey B., Professions 1864 Banbury, Oxon n/k n/k Electrical engineer Sandford, Thomas George Wills,
Not Known 1880 Ireland 1948 Bournemouth n/k [High Sheriff of Co. Roscommon? wikipedia]
Saunderson, Armar Dayrolles, Esq.
Empire 1872 n/k 1952 n/k Irish MP
Saunderson, Anne Archbold, Mrs
Industry 1873 n/k 1968 Nassau da. of John Dustin Archbold (1848-‐1916) president of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey
Saurin, Mary Frances, Miss Navy 1842 London 1912 Mentone da. of Admiral and Lady Mary Saurin
Saurin, Arthur E. N., Industry 1867 London 1933 Hastings, Sussex Son of William G. Saurin, Sub Inspector Of Factories living in Edinburgh 1871
Schoedde, James Holmes, General
Army n/k n/k n/k n/k Army officer
Sedgwick, Thomas Arnold, Rev.
Professions 1860 Watford,Herts 1949 New Forest Clerk In Holy Orders, possibly son of John Sedgwick, Solicitor
Shakerley, Henry, Col. Army n/k n/k n/k n/k Army officer
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Name Background Birthdate Birthplace Date of death Place of death Notes Shedden, Lewis W., Mr Army 1853 Lyndhurst 1904 Warwickshire Late Lieutenant Hants Militia INew
Forestantry Sheppard/Shepherd, Percy, Mr
Not Known n/k n/k n/k n/k n/k
Shrubb, Charles, Revd Professions 1790 Thames Ditton, Surrey
1875 Lymington Vicar of Boldre
Shrubb, John Lane, Land 1840 Boldre 1884 Lymington Gentleman Landowner (1971) Verderer
Shrubb, Sibylla M. L., Mrs Widow 1844 Lymington 1911x15 Italy widow of John Lane Shrubb Shrubb, John Peyto Charles, Esq., JP
Land 1863 Ringwood 1918 Lymington son of John Lane Shrubb, Landowner & Verderer Of New Forest
Simon, Ingo, Arts/letters 1875 Chorlton, Lancs 1964 Honiton, Devon Singer and archery enthusiast Simpson, Jaques Alfred, Industry 1853 Church
Accrington, Lancs 1915 Southsea possibly James son of Francis
Simpson, master whitesmith employing one boy in 1861, whitesmith and bellhanger in 1871, whitesmith 1881
Slade, Henry H[ercules?], Esq. Empire 1799 Marlborough 1878? Bath? Resident JP from Ireland on pension old age
Smith, Thomas Eustace, Industry 1831 Newcastle upon Tyne
1903 n/k Northumbrian ship repairer and MP for Tyneside 1868-‐1885
Smith, Martha Mary, Mrs Arts/letters 1835 or 1839
Madras, East Indies
1919 n/k Art Patron
Smith, Abel, Miss Not Known n/k n/k n/k n/k n/k Somerset, Robert Henry, DSO Army 1898 London Regents
Park 1965 Athens (Rhodes) Army officer (heir-‐presumptive to
10th Duke of Beaufort) Souberbielle, Edouard, Not Known 1859 n/k 1912 Tarbes, France n/k [father of the organist of the
same name (1899-‐1986) Spencer, Harvey, Commerce 1832 London
Marylebone 1899 London
Marylebone Naturalist Small Annuity, son of Thomas Harvey, coal merchant?
Sque, George, Farmer 1824 Boldre 1897 Ringwood Farmer of 14 acres (1881) St Barbe, Henry, Law 1858 Lymington 1935 Hendon, Middx Solicitor Stacey, Charles Darwin, Funds etc 1874 Bombay 1916? Marylebone Private Means
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Name Background Birthdate Birthplace Date of death Place of death Notes Standish, William Cecil, Mr Funds etc 1823 Swallowfield,
Berkshire 1888 New Forest Income Derived From Dividends
Standish, Emma, Mrs Widow 1830 Hanley, Worcestershire
1890 New Forest widow of William Cecil Standish
Standish, Lucy Christiana, Miss
Son/daughter 1857 Bishopstoke, Hants
1906 Winchester, Hampshire
da. of William Cecil Standish
Stanhope, Dudley Henry Eden, The Hon., 9th Earl of Harrington
Land 1859 Strangford, Co. Down
1928 n/k Owned about 6,000 acres
Stevenson, William George, Esq., J. P.
Army 1827 n/k 1910 Uxbridge Scots Guards
Strang, Harry Bland, Lt-‐Col Army 1891? Charlton? n/k n/k Army officer Stucley, George S., Sir, Bart Aristocracy 1814 Bideford, Devon 1900 Bideford, Devon Devonshire gentry Sullivan, Robert, Esq. Not Known n/k n/k n/k n/k n/k Surtees, Lady Aristocracy n/k n/k n/k n/k Widow of Surtees* (Sir)
Stephenson Villiers? Sweet, Lucy, Mrs Widow 1815 Shrewsbury 1903 Lymington widow of Edward David Sweet Sweet, Edward David, Esq. Empire 1821 Hillersdon, Devon 1901 Lymington Landed Proprietor Colonist (NZ) Swinburne, George W. P., Law 1876 Worcestershire
Acocks Green 1969 Christchurch Barrister-‐At-‐Law
Sykes, Mary, Mrs Not known 1839 Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
1918 New Forest Widow
Sykes, Percy Molesworth, Brig.-‐Gen. Sir
Army 1867 Canterbury 1945 n/k Army officer, traveller and writer; 25 years in Persia, father was army chaplain
Talbot, Henry Charles, Major Army 1839 Micheldever, Monmouth
1901 New Forest Army officer
Taylor, Frederick Beatson, BA Camb
Empire 1852 India Dinapur n/k n/k Pensioner Indian Civil Service
Thompson, Hugh Perronet, Professions 1855 n/k 1937 n/k Civil engineer? Thursby, George James, Sir, third baronet
Industry 1869 London 1941 New Forest Bart; Ormorod coal mines heir
Thursby, Augusta, Dame Widow 1877 Blaston Leicestershire
1949 New Forest widow of Sir George Thursby
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Name Background Birthdate Birthplace Date of death Place of death Notes Timson, Henry Thomas, Major Army 1869 n/k 1928 n/k Remount officer during the war Tindall, Mr Not Known n/k n/k n/k n/k n/k Trinder, William Henry, Capt. Navy n/k n/k n/k n/k Army or naval officer Turner, J. T., Esq. Industry n/k n/k n/k n/k Grandfather of John Turner-‐
Turner, of Turner’s Blacking Turner-‐Turner, John Edmund Unett Phillipson, JP
Industry 1856 Bramshaw 1938 Newton Abbot, Devon
Sportsman, landowner, inherited money from his wifeÕs grandfather, Turner, famous for blacking (B-‐S, p. 38, see also The Times, Wednesday, Dec 20, 1815)
Unwin, Edward Wilberforce, Esq.
Land 1818 Derbyshire 1888 n/f Fundholder and landowner, wife born in India
Unwin, The Misses Son/daughter n/k n/k n/k n/k das. of Edward L. Wilberforce Unwin
Upjohn, William Henry, KC Law 1853 n/k 1941 n/k Barrister Vaughan, Mary Jane, Mrs Not Known n/k n/k n/k n/k n/k Vicars-‐Miles, Matthew John, JP Army 1865 Devon 1942 n/k Private means, son of clergyman;
Army officer in 1908 Vines, Mary, Mrs. Land 1777 Northampton
Willingborough n/k n/k Possibly Landed Proprietor And
Fundholder (1861 census) von Goetz, Miss Not Known n/k n/k n/k n/k n/k Walker-‐Munro, Edward Lionel, Lieut-‐Commander, RN
Navy 1862 St Georges, Middx 1920 Lymington Naval officer
Walshe, Walter Hayle, Not Known n/k n/k n/k n/k n/k (possibly son of Walter Hayle Walsh the physician, 1812-‐92)
Walter, Charles, Esq. Army 1798 Twickenham, Middx
n/k n/k Landowner (1871) (Possibly Captain Retired List Indian Army, 1861 census)
Walther, Edward, Funds etc 1816 Australia n/k n/k Living On Own Means Ward-‐Jackson, William Charles, Major, DL, JP
Army 1835 Durham Norton 1903 New Forest Army officer
Ward-‐Jackson, Emily, Mrs Widow 1838 Mirfield, Yorkshire
1917 Camp Hill widow of William Charles Ward-‐Jackson
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Name Background Birthdate Birthplace Date of death Place of death Notes Ward-‐Jackson, William Ralph, BA
Law 1868 Malvern, Worcs 1935 New Forest Barrister
Warre, George Acheson, Commerce 1843 Portugal 1913 Winchester Port Wine Shipper Wathen-‐Bartlett, William, Commerce 1867 Paddington 1934 Christchurch Lloyds Underwriter Watson, Misses Not Known n/k n/k n/k n/k n/k Webley, Henry, Not Known n/k n/k n/k n/k n/k Webster, Henry B., Esq. Not Known n/k n/k n/k n/k n/k Weinholt, Mr Not Known n/k n/k n/k n/k n/k Welby, Reginald Earle, Baron Welby
Professions 1832 Harston, Leicestershire
1915 Malwood Civil Servant
Westlake, Richard, Commerce 1862? Southampton 1932 Winchester Sack contractor living at Swaythling in 1901 and 1911?
Westminster, Duchess of Aristocracy n/k n/k n/k n/k wife of Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster (but I am not sure which wife!)
Whitaker, William Ingham, Esq., DL, JP
Army 1866 Palermo, Sicily 1936 n/k Army officer, wealth derived from Marsala wine trade with Sicily
White, Joseph Moss, Not Known n/k n/k n/k n/k n/k Wilkinson, Hugh, Law 1850 Hampstead,
London 1948 New Forest Landscape Painter/Barrister at
Law Wilkinson, Leonard Rodwell, Law 1869 Highgate, London n/k n/k Barrister and Director of Gas
companies Wilks, Mathias Buckworth, Mr Land 1828 n/k 1882 n/k Landed proprietor Willan, Frank, Col. Army 1846 Plymouth 1931 Burley Colonel 3rd Oxfordshire Light
INew Forestantry; DL, JP, and Alderman for County of Hants
Williams, Walter, Captain Funds etc 1812 Middx n/k n/k Fundholder Williams-‐Freeman, William Peere, Esq.
Not Known n/k n/k n/k n/k n/k
Wilson, Courtney, Esq. Not Known n/k n/k n/k n/k n/k Witherby, Henry (Harry) Forbes, Esq., F. Z. S.
Industry 1836 Highbury, London
1907 Burley Law Stationer Employing 169 Men
Witherby, Emily, Mrs Widow 1838 Forebridge Staffordshire
1915 Ringwood widow of Harry Forbes Witherby
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Name Background Birthdate Birthplace Date of death Place of death Notes Wood, Seymour Augustus, Commerce 1856 Fifehead, Dorset 1895 South Stoneham Son of William G. Wood, Magistrate
and Somerset Banker Woodroffe, Charles Henry Witts, BA, JP
Land 1851 n/k n/k n/k Land & Dividends
Wright, Henry S., Law 1840 Quorndon, Derbyshire
n/k n/k Barrister At Law Not In Practice
Wright, Trevor, Farmer 1881 Warwickshire Edgbaston
n/k n/k Trout Breeder
Wyndham, Isabel Campbell, Mrs
Not Known 1867 Lyndhurst 1936? Salisbury n/k [nee Campbell?]
Yearsley, G. F., Not Known n/k n/k n/k n/k n/k
Yorke, A. J., Not Known n/k n/k n/k n/k n/k Young, Amelia, Mrs Not known 1836 Ringwood n/k n/k widow
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Table F.2. Totals in each background category Background N % of subtotal % of total Officersa 88 48 Aristocracy 25 13 Arts/letters 11 6 Farmers 8 4 Funds 30 16 Land 25 13 Subtotal ‘landed’ 187 54 Commerce 35 47 Empire -‐ commerce/farming 11 15 Industry 24 32 Publishing 5 7 Subtotal ‘industry and commerce’ 75 22 Law 22 26 Other professions 56 65 Empire -‐ professions 8 9 Subtotal ‘professions’ 86 24
Total known 348 Sons/daughtersb 13 10 Widowsb 33 25 Not known 85 65 131 Total 479 Notes: a. Officers included 66 army and 22 navy. b. Sons, daughters and widows are excluded from the totals, as their parents or husbands are included in other categories.
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Table F.3. Number of residents in each category who lived in houses with at least 20 rooms or at least four bathrooms.
Background N 20+ rooms 4+ bathrooms
R % of N B % of N Army officers 66 13 20 16 24 Naval officers 22 7 32 1 5
Subtotal officers 88 20 23 17 19 Aristocracy 25 3 12 10 40 Arts/letters 11 2 18 0 0 Farmers 8 3 38 1 13 Funds 30 9 30 1 3 Land 25 5 20 4 16
Subtotal ‘landowners’ (including officers) 187 42 22 33 18 Commerce 35 7 20 6 17 Empire -‐ commerce/farming 11 2 18 3 27 Industry 24 5 21 9 38 Publishing 5 0 0 1 20
Subtotal industry and commerce 75 14 19 19 25 Law 22 8 36 7 32 Other professions 56 11 20 11 20 Empire -‐ professions 8 2 25 1 13
Subtotal professions 86 21 24 19 22 Total known 348 77 22 71 20
Sources: Rooms, 1911 census; bathrooms, sales notices.
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Table F.4. Number of residents in each category whose houses had billiards rooms, tennis lawns or courts, or glasshouses.
Billiards room Tennis lawn or court Glasshouses Background N B % of N T % of N G % of N Army officers 66 13 20 23 35 14 21 Naval officers 22 6 27 11 50 3 14
Subtotal officers 88 19 22 34 39 17 19 Aristocracy 25 4 16 4 16 6 24 Arts/letters 11 0 0 3 27 1 9 Farmers 8 0 0 2 25 3 38 Funds 30 2 7 2 7 6 20 Land 25 8 32 11 44 5 20
Subtotal ‘landowners’ (including officers) 187 33 18 56 30 38 20 Commerce 35 6 17 3 9 6 17 Empire -‐ commerce/farming 11 2 18 4 36 2 18 Industry 24 6 25 6 25 5 21 Publishing 5 1 20 2 40 2 40
Subtotal industry and commerce 75 15 20 15 20 15 20 Law 22 4 18 4 18 3 14 Other professions 56 9 16 10 18 10 18 Empire -‐ professions 8 1 13 4 50 1 13
Subtotal professions 86 14 16 18 21 14 16 Total known 348 62 18 89 26 67 19
Sources: Sales notices.
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Table F.5. Wealth at death
Name Background Birthdate Date of death Wealth at Death Parker, Richard, General Army 1803 1885 £11,000 Gore, Catherine Grace Frances , Mrs
Arts 1799/1800 1861 £14,000
Gaussen, Alicia Fenton, Mrs Professions 1839 1913 £49,045 Kelly, Edward Festus, Publishing 1854 1939 £467,211 Sykes, Percy Molesworth, Brig.-‐Gen. Sir
Army 1867 1945 £24,659 14s. 4d.
Fenwick, George John, Commerce 1822 circa 1913 £1,186,845, net personalty £1,086,004 Mole, Roland Thornicroft, Industry 1869 1940 £101,418, net personalty £101,323 (£2,100 to Clifton
College for a scholarship and £500 to Lymington and District Hospital)
Hanbury, Daniel, Esq. Industry 1876 1948 £108,821; father had left £789,124 9s. 0d in 1903 Welby, Reginald Earle, Baron Welby
Professions 1832 1915 £111,392 13s. 8d.
Smith, Thomas Eustace, Industry 1831 1903 £123,151 2s. 4d Fowler, J. Kingston, Sir, KCVO, MA, MD
Professions 1852 1934 £14,868 19s. 7d.
Carnegie, David John, 10th Earl of Northesk
Army 1865 1921 £148,730 (personal, excl real and settled property; English property £14,050, net personalty £1,800)
Pember, Edward Henry, JP, QC, MA
Law 1833 1911 £149,454 13s. 8d.
Smith, Martha Mary, Mrs Arts 1835 or 1839 1919 £17,693 1s. 10d Herbert, Auberon Edward Molyneux, Hon.
Professions 1838 1906 £18,145 net personalty £14,444
Harcourt, William George Granville Vernon-‐, Sir, MP, PC, QC, MA
Politics 1827 1904 £190,264 19s. 3d
Knapton-‐Knapton, Augustus Lempriere, Captain
Navy 1855 1922 £2,519, net personalty £800
Jervis-‐Smith, Frederick John, Rev., MA, FRS
Professions 1848 1911 £37,957 17s. 5d.
Mather, William, Sir Industry 1838 1920 £405,841, net pers £394,896
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Name Background Birthdate Date of death Wealth at Death Firth, Anna Maria, Mrs Industry 1865 1937 £46,106 net pers., £38,242 Dalrymple, Francis Bertram, Major
Army 1851 1932 £46,415 net personalty £35,215
Orde, Julian Walter, Sir Commerce 1861 1929 £5,452, net personalty £1,853 Saurin, Mary Frances, Miss Navy 1842 1912 £50,453, net personalty £44,976 Wathen-‐Bartlett, William, Commerce 1867 1934 £67,629 net personalty £58,704 Braddon, Mary Elizabeth, Miss (Mrs Maxwell)
Arts 1835 1915 £68,112 1s 3d
Hardcastle, Thomas Augustus, Industry 1867 1941 £77,665, net personalty £66,638 Leuchars, Raymond, Industry 1882 1927 Effects £15,402 12s. 2d. Glyn, St Leger Richard, Hon. Commerce 1825 1870 Father left under £1,000,000 Bailey, Henry Francis, Arts 1831 1916 Had the Cromer lifeboat named after him Cook, Wyndham F., Mrs Commerce 1856 1925 Husband d. 1905: £1,203,809 5s 9d, net pers:
£1,129,261 18s 4d. Chawner, Frances Sarah, Mrs Professions 1842 1925 Husband left £56,000 in 1888 Duncan, Jane Hart Matthews, Mrs Professions 1839 1915 Husband left £85,436 (1890)
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