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Portnall Park, Virginia Water
Portnall Park is a manor house in Virginia Water, Surrey, on Bagshot road, three miles (5 km) from Egham, and 21 miles from London. History A house was built at ''Potnalls'', ''Potenall'', ''Portenall'', or Portnall Park by c. 1770. In 1804 Rev. Thomas Bisse (c1754-1828) exchanged it for some land at Tite Hill, Egham (probably land that had belonged to his wife's aunt Lydia Challoner (died 1803) with David Jebb, the younger son of Dr. John Jebb, Dean of Cashel (c1706-1787), and elder brother of John Jebb (reformer). Bisse extended the mansion, as did the son, Colonel Bisse-Challoner (1788–1872), after 1828. This is how Prosser described it in 1828: 'The park, comprising nearly four hundred acres, is beautifully undulated, and diversified with timber and flourishing plantations, through which extensive gravel walks and green rides are formed ; in well-chosen situations are seats and rustic retreats, commanding extensive and beautifully varied views over the Surrey hills o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginia Water
Virginia Water is a commuter village in the Borough of Runnymede in northern Surrey, England. It is home to the Wentworth Estate and the Wentworth Club. The area has much woodland and occupies a large minority of the Runnymede district. Its name is shared with the lake on its western boundary within Windsor Great Park. Virginia Water has excellent transport links with London–Trumps Green and Thorpe Green touch the M3, Thorpe touches the M25, and Heathrow Airport is seven miles to the north-east. Many of the detached houses are on the Wentworth Estate, the home of the Wentworth Club which has four golf courses. The Ryder Cup was first played there. It is also home to the headquarters of the PGA European Tour, the professional golf tour. One of the houses featured in a headline in 1998—General Augusto Pinochet was placed under house arrest having unsuccessfully resisted extradition, the facing of a criminal trial in Chile. In 2011 approximately half of the homes of the pos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surrey
Surrey () is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in South East England, bordering Greater London to the south west. Surrey has a large rural area, and several significant urban areas which form part of the Greater London Built-up Area. With a population of approximately 1.2 million people, Surrey is the 12th-most populous county in England. The most populated town in Surrey is Woking, followed by Guildford. The county is divided into eleven districts with borough status. Between 1893 and 2020, Surrey County Council was headquartered at County Hall, Kingston-upon-Thames (now part of Greater London) but is now based at Woodhatch Place, Reigate. In the 20th century several alterations were made to Surrey's borders, with territory ceded to Greater London upon its creation and some gained from the abolition of Middlesex. Surrey is bordered by Greater London to the north east, Kent to the east, Berkshire to the north west, West Sussex to the south, East Sussex to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dean Of Cashel
The Dean of Cashel is the head of the Chapter of the Cathedral Church of St John the Baptist and St Patrick's Rock, Cashel, one of the Church of Ireland cathedrals of the united Diocese of Cashel, Ferns and Ossory. The Deanery is vacant. It is not known when the Chapter of Cashel was established, but in 1224 Pope Honorius III confirmed twelve Canons and a Dean in the historic cathedral of St Patrick, located at the Rock of Cashel., ''The Province of Munster'', p. 32. For centuries the Chapter consisted of five dignitaries and six prebendaries, the Archbishop of Cashel being one, holding the prebend of Glankeen as parcel of his see. The prebend of Crohane was united to the archdeaconry of Cashel for more than 200 years. Following the Reformation, the Church of Ireland retained the cathedral until it was closed for worship in 1721. Meanwhile, the old parish Church of St John in Cashel was removed and the present Georgian Cathedral completed in 1784. The most recent dean, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Jebb (reformer)
John Jebb (1736–1786) was an English divine, medical doctor, and religious and political reformer. Life Jebb was the son of John Jebb, Dean of Cashel, a member of the Irish branch of a distinguished family which came originally from Mansfield in Nottinghamshire: among his Irish cousins was John Jebb, Bishop of Limerick and the bishop's brother Richard Jebb, judge of the Court of King's Bench (Ireland). His mother was Anne Gansel, daughter of David Gansel of Donnyland House, Colchester, and sister of Lieutenant General William Gansel, who was noted as the protagonist in ''Gansel's case'' (1774), on whether a lodger had a legal right to resist being evicted from his lodgings. John Jebb was educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he was elected fellow in 1761, having previously been Second Wrangler at Cambridge in 1757. He was a man of independent judgement, and he and his wife Ann warmly supported the movement of 1771 for abolishing university and clerical subscription to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas-Chaloner Bisse-Challoner (1788-1872)
Thomas-Chaloner Bisse-Challoner (1788–1872) DL, JP, was a British gentleman and militia colonel. He enlarged the former country house and landscape garden at Portnall Park, Virginia Water (then considered Egham Heath), and so laid the foundation for the Wentworth Estate and housing development in the surrounding area. Background Challoner was the only son of the Rev. Thomas Bisse (c.1754- 13 November 1828), of Portnall Park, Virginia Water and his first wife, Katherine Townsend (d.1815/ 16).''A Genealogical history of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland'', revised 4th ed., Sir Bernard Burke, 1868, "Challoner of Portnall" pedigree, p. 227 He was educated at Eton College (c.1802–1805), and matriculated at Trinity College, Oxford in 1806. Inheritance In 1829, in order to inherit according to the will of his maternal great-aunt Mrs Challoner, Bisse changed his name to Bisse-Challoner. This was announced in The London Gazette on 22 January 1829: "...he may (in tes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terrace At Portnall Park, Surrey, UK - C 1880
Terrace may refer to: Landforms and construction * Fluvial terrace, a natural, flat surface that borders and lies above the floodplain of a stream or river * Terrace, a street suffix * Terrace, the portion of a lot between the public sidewalk and the street * Terrace (earthworks), a leveled surface built into the landscape for agriculture or salt production * Terrace (building), a raised flat platform * Terrace garden, an element where a raised flat paved or gravelled section overlooks a prospect * Terrace (geology), a step-like landform that borders a shoreline or river floodplain * Terraced house, a style of housing where identical individual houses are cojoined into rows * Terrace, the roof of a building, especially one accessible to the residents for various purposes * Terrace, a sidewalk cafe * Terrace (stadium), standing spectator areas, especially in Europe and South America, or the sloping portion of the outfield in a baseball stadium, not necessarily for seating, but for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerome, 4th Count De Salis-Soglio
Jerome de Salis, Count de Salis-Soglio, DL, JP, FRS (14 February 1771 – 2 October 1836), ''Illustris et Magnificus'', was an Anglo-Grison noble and Irish landowner. Life Jerome, Count de Salis-Soglio, was the eldest surviving son of Peter De Salis and his third wife, Ann, daughter of Bundespresident Antonio de Salis. Born in Chiavenna on 14 February 1771, he died on 2 October 1836 at Dawley Lodge, Harlington, and lies buried in the ancient church of St Peter and St Paul, Harlington, London, which was at the time in Middlesex. In a letter of 1830 he proposed spending the winter in Madeira whence: :'...should the Antichrist appear next year, I can easily get a passage to Chilli... by the dream I had in 1815, or rather a waking vision during an illness I had in Dublin, the application of aerial navigation to military operations will be a sign of the coming of the Antichrist.' De Salis was a friend of Samuel Wix, the high-churchman, and paid for his ''Reflections concern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecil Fane De Salis
Sir Cecil Fane de Salis, , (31 May 1857 – 9 March 1948) was chairman of Middlesex County Council 1919–1924, and landowner in the parish of Harlington. Biography Second of four sons of Rev. Henry Jerome Fane De Salis of Portnall Park, he was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. He was called to the Bar from the Inner Temple in 1881 In March 1899 he was elected unopposed to Middlesex County Council to represent Stanwell. He was re-elected three times before unexpectedly losing his seat at the 1910 county council election. He was able to remain a member of the council when he chosen as a county alderman a few days later. He was Chairman of Middlesex County Council from 1919-24. In 1937 he retired from the county council when he did not seek re-election as an alderman. Chairman and owner of market gardeners H. & A. Pullen Burry, Ltd. of Sompting, West Sussex; he was a director of the Dawley Wall Gravel Pit in the parish of Harlington; JP (Middlesex, 1896–1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rodolph Fane De Salis
Rodolph Fane De Salis, (Fringford, 10 December 1854 - 26 November 1931 (buried in Virginia Water)), Geological Society of London, FGS, AMICE, civil engineer who was a director and then chairman of the Singer (car), Singer Motor Company of Coventry; President of the Canal Association; the last chairman of the Grand Junction Canal Co.; and director of the North Staffordshire Railway, the Great Central Railway, and of the Coventry Canal. A nephew of William Andrew Salius Fane de Salis, William Fane de Salis and the eldest son of Rev. Count Henry Jerome Augustine Fane de Salis, Rev. Henry-Jerome Fane De Salis, of Fringford and then Portnall Park, Virginia Water, the seventh son of the Jerome, 4th Count de Salis-Soglio, 4th Count de Salis, he was educated at Eton and (Trinity Hall, Cambridge, Trinity Hall, Cantab). Sir Cecil Fane De Salis and Charles de Salis (bishop), Charles De Salis, Bishop of Taunton were two of his three brothers.Burke's Landed Gentry, edited by Kenneth Peter Tow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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