National Trust

BP became a skilled and successful farmer and sheep-breeder. She bought her first Herdwick sheep (a local breed with coarse, weather-proof, greyish wool and melancholy white faces) in 1906, at a time when the price...

Nine days earlier she had written that she had still some kick in me. The cause of her death was listed as acute bronchitis, myocarditis, and carcinoma of uterus. Today the National Trust

Leslie Linder bequeathed his extensive collection of BP 's papers, paintings, and first editions to the National Trust . The trust holds its Potter manuscripts at Near Sawrey in the Lake District; others are...

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...

LMWM spent most of her time at a handsome rented villa, Middlethorpe Hall near York, with her baby, often without her husband .

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 .

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...

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...

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...

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.

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 ,...

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...

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...

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...

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...