Bryanston is a
village
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and
civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ...
in north
Dorset
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,
England
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, situated on the
River Stour west of
Blandford Forum. In the
2011 census the parish had a population of 925.
[ The village is adjacent to the grounds of ]Bryanston School
Bryanston School is a public school (English independent day and boarding school for pupils aged 13–18) located next to the village of Bryanston, and near the town of Blandford Forum, in Dorset in South West England. It was founded in 1928. ...
, an independent school.
The village was named after Brian de Lisle Brian de Lisle (de L'Isle, de Insula) (died 1234) was an English soldier. By April 1200 Lisle was in the service of King John.ChurchLisle, Sir Brian de (''d''. 1234) ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' In 1204 King John confiscated Gilbert d ...
, a Baron at the court of King John. The Rogers family owned it for a long period of time, and it was later purchased by Sir William Portman, 6th Baronet
Sir William Portman, 6th Baronet (5 September 1643 – 18 March 1690) FRS was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1661 and 1690.
Portman was the son of Sir William Portman, 5th Baronet and his wife Anne Colles, daught ...
, who took part in crushing Monmouth's rebellion
The Monmouth Rebellion, also known as the Pitchfork Rebellion, the Revolt of the West or the West Country rebellion, was an attempt to depose James II, who in February 1685 succeeded his brother Charles II as king of England, Scotland and Ir ...
in 1685. In the 1890s the Portman family built a large country house, designed by Richard Norman Shaw
Richard Norman Shaw RA (7 May 1831 – 17 November 1912), also known as Norman Shaw, was a British architect who worked from the 1870s to the 1900s, known for his country houses and for commercial buildings. He is considered to be among the g ...
[ In 1950 Viscount Portman gave up the Bryanston Estates as part payment of death duties.][ The estate was then owned by the crown until 2015 when the estate was purchased by a UK company held on behalf of the ]Viscount Rothermere
Viscount Rothermere, of Hemsted in the county of Kent, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1919 for the press lord Harold Harmsworth, 1st Baron Harmsworth. He had already been created a baronet, of Horsey in th ...
and his son the Hon Vere Harmsworth for an undisclosed sum.
See also
* Bryanston Square in London
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References
External links
Villages in Dorset
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