Langtry Manor
The Langtry Manor (formerly the Red House) is a country house hotel at 26 Derby Road in the East Cliff area of Bournemouth, England. The foundation stone is inscribed "E.L.L. 1877". A residence for 60 years, it was originally known as the "Red House", and after 1937 the "Manor Heath Hotel", before being renamed the Langtry Manor in the late 1970s. Originally built and owned by widowed women's rights campaigner and temperance activist Emily Langton Langton (1847–1897),Clement, Mark"Massingberd, Emily Caroline Langton (1847–1897)" ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''. Oxford University Press, 2007. after her death the house was sold. In 1938 a new set of owners converted it into a hotel, "Manor Heath Hotel", which advertised it as having been built originally for Lillie Langtry by the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII). Camp, Anthony J.br>Additions and Corrections to ''Royal Mistresses and Bastards: Fact and Fiction 1714–1936'' (2007). ''AnthonyJCamp.com''. Retrieve ...
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Langtry Manor
The Langtry Manor (formerly the Red House) is a country house hotel at 26 Derby Road in the East Cliff area of Bournemouth, England. The foundation stone is inscribed "E.L.L. 1877". A residence for 60 years, it was originally known as the "Red House", and after 1937 the "Manor Heath Hotel", before being renamed the Langtry Manor in the late 1970s. Originally built and owned by widowed women's rights campaigner and temperance activist Emily Langton Langton (1847–1897),Clement, Mark"Massingberd, Emily Caroline Langton (1847–1897)" ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''. Oxford University Press, 2007. after her death the house was sold. In 1938 a new set of owners converted it into a hotel, "Manor Heath Hotel", which advertised it as having been built originally for Lillie Langtry by the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII). Camp, Anthony J.br>Additions and Corrections to ''Royal Mistresses and Bastards: Fact and Fiction 1714–1936'' (2007). ''AnthonyJCamp.com''. Retrieve ...
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