Sir Edmund Antrobus, 4th Baronet (25 December 1848 – 11 February 1915) was a British army officer and a landowner in Wiltshire. His lands included the ancient monument of

Stonehenge Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, west of Amesbury. It consists of an outer ring of vertical sarsen standing stones, each around high, wide, and weighing around 25 tons, topped by connectin ...

Biography

Sir Edmund Antrobus, 4th Baronet, was born 25 December 1848.''Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th edition'', 1999, volume I, p. 92 He was the son and heir of

Sir Edmund Antrobus, 3rd Baronet Sir Edmund Antrobus, 3rd Baronet, (3 September 1818 – 1 April 1899) was a British politician who sat as Member of Parliament for Surrey Eastern for six years as a Conservative, and Wilton for 22 years as a Whig/Liberal. Sir Edmund was the el ...

, and Marianne Georgiana Dashwood, married on 11 February 1847. He was colonel in the

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and took part in the 1885

Suakin Expedition The Suakin Expedition was either of two British military expeditions, led by Major-General Sir Gerald Graham V.C., to Suakin in Sudan, with the intention of destroying the power of the Sudanese military commander Osman Digna and his troops during ...

in Sudan. As owner of the ancient monument of

, he charged the engineer

William Gowland William Gowland FRAI (16 December 1842 – 9 June 1922) was an English mining engineer who carried out archaeological work at Stonehenge and in Japan. He has been called the "Father of Japanese Archaeology". Biography Gowland was born in Sunde ...

to oversee the first major restoration of the monument in 1901. In 1905, he was initiated into the

Ancient Order of Druids The Ancient Order of Druids (AOD) is the senior neo-druid order in the world, and the oldest in continuous existence. It was formed in London, England, in 1781. It is represented in England, Wales, Scotland and the Commonwealth of Nations. Its ...

and welcomed the first massive ceremony of this Order in Stonehenge. He was married in 1886 to Florence Caroline Mathilde Sartoris (1856–1923). Their son and heir Edmund, a lieutenant in the

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, was killed at war in Belgium on 24 October 1914. He died at

Amesbury Abbey Amesbury Abbey was a Benedictine abbey of women at Amesbury in Wiltshire, England, founded by Queen Ælfthryth in about the year 979 on what may have been the site of an earlier monastery. The abbey was dissolved in 1177 by Henry II, who founded ...

, the family seat, on 11 February 1915. His brother and heir, Sir Cosmo Antrobus, 5th Baronet (1859–1939), sold the site of Stonehenge after inheriting it from his elder brother.The auction by Knight Frank & Rutley estate agents in Salisbury was held on 21 September 1915.

Notes and references

Sources

*Peter Clark, ''British Clubs and Societies, 1580–1680'', Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2002. *Ronald Hutton, ''Blood and Mistletoe: The History of the Druids in Britain'', New Haven, Yale University Press, 2009.

External links

Images of Lady Florence and Edward (the son)
– Antrobus House, Amesbury, via artuk.org

– Florence Antrobus, William Clowes and Sons, 1908, via

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