Mount Ararat was a large

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at Richmond Hill in

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, built in the 1740s and demolished circa 1897. It was occupied by a

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and later by an

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History

The house was built in the 1740s for Thomas Warren and was originally occupied by Daniel Wray, a trustee of the

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. By the early 1840s it was being used by Henry Hawkes, a gentleman of independent means, and by the late 1840s it was occupied by

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Thomas Grosvenor.Heathcote, p.154 The house remained in the hands of the Grosvenor family after the field marshal's death in 1851 until it passed to

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who was living there by the early 1870s and remained there until his death in 1891. The house was demolished circa 1897.

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