Eastwick Park, also Eastwich Park, at

Great Bookham Great Bookham is a village in Surrey, England, one of six semi-urban spring line settlements between the towns of Leatherhead and Guildford. With the narrow strip parish of Little Bookham, it forms part of the Saxon settlement of ''Bocham'' ("the ...

in Surrey, England (for the period 1726–1958) was the family seat of the Howards of Effingham for about seventy years.

History

Eastwick Park was built by the French Huguenot architect Nicholas Dubois (''c.'' 1665–1735) between 1726 and 1728 for Sir

Conyers Darcy Sir Conyers Darcy or Darcey, (c. 16851 December 1758), of Aske, near Richmond, Yorkshire, was a British Army officer, courtier and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1707 and 1758. Early life Darcy was the second surviving ...

and his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of John Rotherham of Much Waltham, Essex and the recent widow of Thomas Howard, 6th Lord Howard of Effingham.

The Lawrells

James Lawrell senior, an engineer of the

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who had become a financial official in the

Bengal Presidency The Bengal Presidency, officially the Presidency of Fort William and later Bengal Province, was a subdivision of the British Empire in India. At the height of its territorial jurisdiction, it covered large parts of what is now South Asia and ...

, settled at Eastwick. He arrived in Bengal in 1758, and left the Company's service in 1775. He married in 1776 Catherine Holme Sumner, sister of the politician George Holme-Sumner, whose father William Brightwell Sumner had purchased

Hatchlands Park Hatchlands Park is a red-brick country house with surrounding gardens in East Clandon, Surrey, England, covering 170 hectares (430 acres). It is located near Guildford along the A246 between East Clandon and West Horsley. Hatchlands Park has be ...

, not far away from Eastwick Park, in 1768. He died in 1799. James Laurell older bookplate

Lawrell and his wife were in the Brighton circle of the

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in the 1780s, and figure in an anecdote of one of his pranks, circulated by Court Dewes. Their daughter Georgiana Lawrell (born c.1783), who married

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, became later a major figure of Regency-period gossip. She and a sister moved to London around 1801, as their mother remarried to a husband named Hinchman. In 1801, Eastwick Park was sold by

Richard Howard Richard Joseph Howard (October 13, 1929 – March 31, 2022; adopted as Richard Joseph Orwitz) was an American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher, and translator. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and was a graduate of Columbia University, w ...

, the 4th and last Earl of Effingham (of the first creation), to the trustees of

James Lawrell James Lawrell (1780 at Frimley, Surrey – 1842 in England) was an English amateur cricketer who made 21 known appearances in first-class cricket matches from 1800 to 1810. Background and Eastwick Park He was the son of James Lawrell (or La ...

junior, the eldest son. He had substantial building work done on the house, in 1806–1807. He sold Eastwick Park in 1809, to Louis Bazalgette.

Later owners

David Barclay acquired Eastwick Park in 1833, by purchase from the estate of Louis Bazalgette, who died in 1830. The sale followed a chancery case involving Frances Bazalgette, the widow, and Evelyn, son of Louis. Barclay had work done on the house, possibly involving

Decimus Burton Decimus Burton (30 September 1800 – 14 December 1881) was one of the foremost English architects and landscapers of the 19th century. He was the foremost Victorian architect in the Roman revival, Greek revival, Georgian neoclassical and Reg ...

. He rented it out from 1847, when he was experiencing financial troubles. But his son Hedworth David Barclay occupied it; and after his death it was sold by his son Hedworth Trelawny Barclay, in 1880. Eastwick_Park_1958,_construction_of_Eastwick_Park_Avenue

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Eastwick Park housed Southey Hall Boys Preparatory School from 1924 until 1954 (during World War II the boys were evacuated to Devon and Eastwick Park was turned into accommodation for Canadian soldiers). The house was empty from 1954 until 1958 when was demolished to make way for housing and Eastwick County Primary School (which has since been renamed Eastwick Junior School).

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