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Description: | A handsome eighteenth-century neo-Gothic building, standing in a finely wooded park of about 130 acres. It was a house that had a bewildering number of residents. Colonel William Greenwood in the nineteenth century stayed the longest. Earlier residents included Charlotte Smith and the first Earl of Malmesbury. Subsequent owners include Daniel Meinertzhagen, who bought the house in 1900 after he left Mottisfont.
Charlotte Smith (1749-1806) was a popular novelist of the day. In one of her novels she ridiculed her husband's fondness for agricultural projects in the character of a theoretical farmer who is full of plans for buying up old wigs as a powerful manure for fertilizing the soil. Daniel Meinertzhagen was father to Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen, ornithologist, spy and soldier. The Earl of Malmsbury has the record for Britain's first White's Thrush (named after Gilbert White), taken at Hern Court in 1828.
The property became the Krishnamurti Centre in the later twentieth century.
Reference:
White, William. 1859. History, Gazetteer and Directory of Hampshire, p. 559. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Subjects: | Richard Meinertzhagen building William Greenwood Mottisfont Earl of Malmesbury agriculture house Brookwood Park bird Charlotte Smith Hinton Ampner Krishnamurti Centre Brookwood Daniel Meinertzhagen | Temporal: | start=1824-01-01; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | J P Neale; J C Varrall, Sherwood Jones and Co | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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