The Pettiward Estate is a privately owned set of
reversions in the far edge of two inner boroughs of south-west London, England, now owned by a family trust of the family, who were from 1794 until 1935 of
Finborough Hall
Finborough Hall is a Grade II listedHistoric England.St Georges School, Finborough Hall. National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 8 March 2016. stucco-faced Tuscan-style country house in Great Finborough, Suffolk, England.
The grounds were ...
, Suffolk. The family oversaw and took a direct involvement in much of the speculative development of these areas: parts of
West Brompton
West Brompton is an area of south-west London, that straddles the boundary between the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham and Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. The centuries-old boundary was traced by Counter's Creek, now lost be ...
and small parts of
Putney
Putney () is a district of southwest London, England, in the London Borough of Wandsworth, southwest of Charing Cross. The area is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London.
History
Putney is an ancient paris ...
.
Extent
The family trust's key landholdings are in
Putney
Putney () is a district of southwest London, England, in the London Borough of Wandsworth, southwest of Charing Cross. The area is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London.
History
Putney is an ancient paris ...
and
West Brompton
West Brompton is an area of south-west London, that straddles the boundary between the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham and Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. The centuries-old boundary was traced by Counter's Creek, now lost be ...
, London. Most of the houses were originally let for a large premium, to give long leases, archetypally 99 years. These have been gradually reduced in number by freehold enfranchisement, however value loss has been counteracted by a manifold in property prices in the capital over the last centuries, greater than all other British cities.
Descent
* John Pettiward - In 1630 John Pettiward married Sarah White daughter and heiress of Henry White of Putney, who during the
Commonwealth
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appointed by Parliament as
Sheriff of Surrey
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1066–1228
(High Sheriffs of Surrey only)
1229– ...
in 1653.
* Roger Pettiward (fl.1660) - The Pettiwards appear to have been Royalists, and following the
Restoration of the Monarchy of 1660, "Roger Pettiward, Esq. of Putney", was listed as one of the persons qualified to be elected one of the proposed
Knights of the Royal Oak
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, which Order of Chivalry was not proceeded with for political reasons.
* John Pettiward (born 1652) of Putney - married Honor Davies and left an only daughter as sole heiress, Elizabeth Pettiward (born 1685), who in 1709 married George Mortlock.
* Rev. Roger (Mortlock) Pettiward (1712–1780) - Elizabeth Pettiward's son, of Fairfax House, Putney, in 1749 succeeded to the estates of his uncle Walter Pettiward (d.1749), under which terms, in 1749 he obtained a private
Act of Parliament
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to adopt the surname and arms of Pettiward in lieu of his patronymic.
* Roger Pettiward (1754–1833), FRS,
Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries
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eldest son and heir. He was a partner in the wholesale stationery firm of Wright and Gill, of Abchurch Lane, but soon retired from business. Master of the
Worshipful Company of Stationers
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(1831-2). In 1794 he purchased
Finborough Hall
Finborough Hall is a Grade II listedHistoric England.St Georges School, Finborough Hall. National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 8 March 2016. stucco-faced Tuscan-style country house in Great Finborough, Suffolk, England.
The grounds were ...
, near
Stowmarket
Stowmarket ( ) is a market town in Suffolk, England,OS Explorer map 211: Bury St.Edmunds and Stowmarket
Scale: 1:25 000. Publisher:Ordnance Survey – Southampton A2 edition. Publishing Date:2008. on the busy A14 road (Great Britain), A14 trunk ...
, Suffolk,
[Burke's, 1937, p.1797] from Col.
William Wollaston
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(died 1797), MP. He died in 1833 at Trafford Park, Lancashire, aged 78. The Pettiward family had owned the nearby manor of Onehouse since the 16th century. He rebuilt Finborough Hall in 1795 to a design by Francis Sandys of
Bury St Edmonds
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(who also worked at
Ickworth House
Ickworth House is a country house at Ickworth, near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England. It is a neoclassical building set in parkland. The house was the residence of the Marquess of Bristol before being sold to the National Trust in 1998.
H ...
). He was
Sheriff of Suffolk
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in 1811. There were no surviving male heirs.
* Robert John (Bussell) Pettiward (died 1908) - Lady Hotham was succeeded in 1856 as the income-receiving beneficiary (life tenant) by her husband's great-nephew Robert John Bussell (d.1908), who as privately required adopted the surname Pettiward. This also enabled taking up for life in any of the homes from time to time fully vacant, and he chose the customary seat, per his probate, of Finborough Hall
He married Lady Frances Catherine Nelson (d.1877), eldest daughter of
Thomas Nelson, 2nd Earl Nelson
Thomas Nelson, 2nd Earl Nelson, born Thomas Bolton (7 July 1786 – 1 November 1835), was the 2nd Earl Nelson.
He was the son of Thomas Bolton of Wells, Norfolk, and Susannah Nelson, daughter of the Rev. Edmund Nelson. He was educated at Norwich ...
(1786–1835).
Robert John Pettiward decided to build houses on the land, and had plans completed for so doing in October 1862. A sewer had been built under the land in 1855 by the Metropolitan Commissioner of Sewers, under compulsory powers, unbeknownst to Pettiward, who in 1865 claimed compensation of £1,500 as his plans would need redrawing. The Pettiward's building contractor was William Corbett and Alexander McClymont, who built most of the houses in the 1860s. About 220 houses were built at that time on land owned by R. J. Pettiward.
[Sheppard] He died in 1908 leaving or having had only 9 daughters, so per the
tail male
In English common law, fee tail or entail is a form of trust established by deed or settlement which restricts the sale or inheritance of an estate in real property and prevents the property from being sold, devised by will, or otherwise aliena ...
the estates passed to his cousin below, who in 1908 by royal licence adopted the surname Pettiward ''in lieu'' of his patronymic. Robert's probate was sworn in 1908 at .
* Charles (Terry) Pettiward (1855–1933) - cousin, who in 1908 by royal licence adopted the surname Pettiward ''in lieu'' of his patronymic. In 1904 he married Eliza Mary Gamlen (1880–1952), 6th daughter of Robert Heale Gamlen of New Place, Welwyn. He died in 1933; his probates, personal and as to his trust interests, were resworn the next year at .
* Roger Gamelyn Pettiward (1906–1942) - latterly of the Causeway,
Braughing
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,
[ eldest son and heir, a well-critiqued cartoonist in ]Punch Magazine
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who used the pseudonym "Paul Crum", educated at Eton College
Eton College () is a public school in Eton, Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1440 by Henry VI under the name ''Kynge's College of Our Ladye of Eton besyde Windesore'',Nevill, p. 3 ff. intended as a sister institution to King's College, C ...
, Christ Church, Oxford
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, where he studied agriculture, and as an art student at the Vienna State Academy, the Munich State Academy and Slade School of Art. In 1932 he was part of an expedition with Peter Fleming to Brazil to search for the British explorer Percy Harrison Fawcett
Percy Harrison Fawcett (18 August 1867 during or after 1925) was a British geographer, artillery officer, cartographer, archaeologist, and explorer of South America. Fawcett disappeared in 1925 (along with his eldest son, Jack, and one of ...
who had disappeared in the Brazilian jungle in 1925. In 1933 following his father's death he inherited the Pettiward estates and sold Finborough Hall in 1935. In 1935 he married Diana Berners-Wilson, daughter of Frederick Berners-Wilson of the Hardwick, Abergavenny, Wales, and in 1938/9 built a modern home at The Studio House, Duke's Head Yard, Highgate High Street, North London. He served in World War II
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with the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment and was killed in action on 19 August 1942 at Dieppe whilst leading a commando troop against German coastal guns. he left a son and heir (below). His two probates (for trust interests in and free ones) were sworn in 1943 at , with a further effects (being 13.4%) of this coming to light for a third grant needed in 1946.[https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk Calendar of Probates and Administrations]
* Charles Pettiward (born 1936).
West Brompton, SW10
This part of the estate takes up what was the north-west corner of Chelsea, south of Earl's Court and north of World's End. Surviving records show the Pettiward family as landowners in south-west Kensington in the 1640s. Their West Brompton estate appears to have been acquired later, by Walter Pettiward (died 1749). The Pettiwards sold a small part of their estate to James I Gunter (died 1819) in 1811, a confectioner of Berkeley Square
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, whose son Robert I Gunter (d.1852) and grandsons Sir Robert Gunter, 1st Baronet
Sir Robert Gunter, 1st Baronet (2 November 1831 – 17 September 1905) was a British Army officer, property developer and Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1905.
Gunter was the son of Robert Gunter of Ear ...
(1831–1905) and James II Gunter developed much other land in the area, one of his main streets being Gunter Grove, the southern continuation of Finborough Road beyond the junction with Fulham Road. The estate was bounded to the west by the land of William Edwardes, 2nd Baron Kensington
William Edwardes, 2nd Baron Kensington (24 April 1777 – 10 August 1852), styled The Honourable William Edwardes until 1801, was a British peer and Member of Parliament. He was the instigator of the infamous ''Kensington Canal''.
Kensington was ...
(1777–1852), 39 acres of which he sold before 1840 to form the Brompton Cemetery
Brompton Cemetery (originally the West of London and Westminster Cemetery) is a London cemetery, managed by The Royal Parks, in West Brompton in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It is one of the Magnificent Seven cemeteries. Estab ...
, opened in 1840. The eastern boundary was the east side of Redcliffe Gardens, the property of James Gunter.['The Boltons and Redcliffe Square area: The Gunter estate, 1864-78', in Survey of London: Volume 41, Brompton, ed. F H W Sheppard (London, 1983), pp. 211-22]
/ref> The northern boundary was the back of the houses on Redcliffe Lane. The north-south extent thus comprised numbers 2 to 58 Redcliffe Gardens, west side.
The estate bordered:
*to west: land of William Edwardes, 2nd Baron Kensington
William Edwardes, 2nd Baron Kensington (24 April 1777 – 10 August 1852), styled The Honourable William Edwardes until 1801, was a British peer and Member of Parliament. He was the instigator of the infamous ''Kensington Canal''.
Kensington was ...
(1777–1852), of which he sold before 1840 to form the Brompton Cemetery
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, opened in 1840.
*to east: east side of Redcliffe Gardens, the property of James Gunter.
*to north: rear of houses on Redcliffe Lane. The north-south extent thus comprised numbers 2 to 58 Redcliffe Gardens, west side.
The highest-ceiling homes tend to draw on the South Kensington style, red but also frequently polychromatic (involving cream, yellow and dark shades of red/brown) brick terraces, many distinguished by rusticated quoins and other stone dressings, particularly light, multi-level cornice
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s (at lower storeys often called plats/bands).
*Finborough Road
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, the southern half only, both sides, named after the Pettiward family seat of Finborough Hall
Finborough Hall is a Grade II listedHistoric England.St Georges School, Finborough Hall. National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 8 March 2016. stucco-faced Tuscan-style country house in Great Finborough, Suffolk, England.
The grounds were ...
in Suffolk. A road running on a north-south axis between Fulham Road and Old Brompton Road.
*Redcliffe Gardens, anciently "Walnut Tree Lane", the southern half only, west side only, numbers 2 to 58; the freeholder of the east side was James Gunter. Redcliffe Gardens runs parallel to and on the east side of Finborough Road. The name "Redcliffe" was selected by James Gunter, whose larger estate to the immediate east of the Pettiward Estate he named the "Redcliffe Estate".
*Ifield Road, anciently "Honey Lane", southern three quarters only, both sides, immediately west of and parallel to Finborough Road, also running on a north-south axis between Fulham Road and Old Brompton Road.
Putney
The Pettiward family owned farms in part of the area between the Lower and Upper Richmond Roads. Roger Astley (died 1780) by his will dated 15 February 1778 bequeathed to Roger Pettiward his "copyhold
Copyhold was a form of customary land ownership common from the Late Middle Ages into modern times in England. The name for this type of land tenure is derived from the act of giving a copy of the relevant title deed that is recorded in the man ...
estate at Putney consisting of three tenements".[See lawsuit Pettiward v. Prescott, June–August 1802, Rolls, published in: Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of ..., Volume 7, By Francis Vesey, John Eykyn Hovenden, p.54]
/ref> In 1893 on this agricultural land immediately east of Erpingham Road was built an athletic track and concrete cycling velodrome, the first of its type in the United Kingdom. In 1904 houses were built on the land, as to these key streets:
*Earldom Road
*Landford Road
*Clarendon Drive
*Hotham Road
Sources
* John Burke (genealogist),
Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 15th Edition, ed. Pirie-Gordon, H., London, 1937, pp. 1796-7, pedigree of ''Pettiward formerly of Finborough Hall''
References
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