John Donnithorne Taylor (1798 – 1885) was a member of the Taylor-Walker brewing family and the owner of Grovelands House. In the 1830s, Mr and Mrs Taylor were involved in a legal case in which Mrs Taylor requested the

restitution of conjugal rights In English law, restitution of conjugal rights was an action in the ecclesiastical courts and later in the Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes. It was one of the actions relating to marriage, over which the ecclesiastical courts formerly had ju ...

. Around 1840 he purchased

Cullands Grove Cullands Grove, also known as Cannon's, was a country house and estate in Southgate, Middlesex. It was built on an area of woodland formerly known as Gullands Grove. Cullands Grove was known for the lavish banquets held there by Sir William Cur ...

house and estate and merged the grounds into the adjoining Grovelands estate and demolished the house.Culland's (or Cannon's) Grove, Southgate, London, the seat of Sir William Curtis: perspective.
RIBA. Retrieved 6 January 2019.Newby, Herbert W. (1949) ''"Old" Southgate''. London: T. Grove. pp. 17-29.

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