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Connections Author name Sort descending Excerpt
Occupation Emilie Barrington
After Watts 's former residence at Little Holland House was pulled down in 1875, it was EB who provided a long-term home at her own house for some of the frescoes with which Watts had...
Publishing Patricia Beer
PB published Wessex: A National Trust Book, with photographs by Fay Baldwin .
Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons.
(1988)
Occupation Angela Brazil
She also frequented Coventry girls' schools. Benefactions came together with conservation. In 1922 she bought, as a reserve for seagulls and primroses, a stretch of coast and cliffs between Polperro and Talland that was likely...
Travel Agatha Christie
A year or so before war broke out, AC and her husband bought a country house in Devon as a holiday escape from their other homes in Oxfordshire and London. This was Greenway at...
Textual Production Agatha Christie
The Bookseller magazine announced in June 2009 the expected appearance (which duly followed the same year) of AC 's Secret Notebooks: Fifty Years of Mysteries in the Making, based by the self-confessed Christie arch-fan...
Travel John Dryden
The family estate of the Drydens (held by the poet's grandfather but not inherited by his father) was at Canons Ashby in Northamptonshire (now owned by the National Trust and open to the public). The...
Textual Production Carol Ann Duffy
As public poet rather than laureate, she has contributed, for instance, to publicizing the National Trust 's competition for countryside poems. Her poem Moniack Mhor (inspired by time spent at the Scottish Writers' Centre ,...
Residence Rumer Godden
RG moved to a different address in Rye: to Lamb House, the former home of Henry James , a National Trust house to which she came by invitation.
Simpson, Hassell A. Rumer Godden. Twayne.
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Residence Henry James
After his humiliating experience on stage at the opening of his play Guy Domville on 5 January 1895, he withdrew from London to Rye in Sussex, where he rented and eventually bought Lamb House...
Residence Rudyard Kipling
In England in 1902 RK bought a seventeenth-century house called Bateman's at Burwash in Sussex, which is now maintained by the National Trust and is the place most closely connected with his name. He...
Wealth and Poverty Edna Lyall
One of her latest charitable donations was for the purchase of Brandelhow near Crosthwaite (a wood which was otherwise to be cleared for housing development) for what became the National Trust . Brandelhow, acquired in...
Occupation Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore
She laid out landscape gardens at Gibside, personally arranged the import of new plants from Africa, and had garden buildings such as an orangery constructed. The estate now belongs to the National Trust .
“Hourglass”. The National Trust Magazine, Vol.
95
, p. 18.
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Friedell, Deborah. “But Stoney was Bold”. London Review of Books, Vol.
31
, No. 4, pp. 17-18.
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Residence Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
LMWM spent most of her time at a handsome rented villa, Middlethorpe Hall near York, with her baby, often without her husband .
She would proably have been glad to know that Middlethorpe became...
Residence William Morris
Morris sold the house in 1865 and moved closer to his work in London. Red House was privately owned until it was acquired by the National Trust in January 2003 and later opened to the...
death Beatrix Potter
BP died, leaving the National Trust Hill Top Farm and 5,000 acres of farmland which became the basis of the Trust's Lake District holdings.
MacDonald, Ruth K. Beatrix Potter. Twayne.
Chronology
Grinstein, Alexander. The Remarkable Beatrix Potter. International Universities Press.
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Timeline

23-24 June 1314: The English attempt to conquer Scotland was...

National or international item

23-24 June 1314

The English attempt to conquer Scotland was fought off by Scottish forces under Robert Bruce at the Battle of Bannockburn near Stirling.

12 January 1895: The National Trust was founded at Grosvenor...

Building item

12 January 1895

The National Trust was founded at Grosvenor House in London by Octavia Hill , Hardwicke Rawnsley , and Robert Hunter (who had been working towards its opening for nearly a year).

4 July 1940: The British government launched a project...

National or international item

4 July 1940

The British government launched a project known as Auxiliary Units , with headquarters at Coleshill House near Faringdon in Berkshire.
“Secret wartime past revealed”. National Trust: Near you, Berkshire / Buckinghamshire / Hampshire / Oxfordshire / Isle of Wight / London.
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Texts

National Trust Handbook for Members and Visitors: March 1997 to March 1998. National Trust, 1997.