The Homestead is a Grade II listed house at Church Road,

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SW13, built in about 1720.

Notable residents

The Scottish physician, librarian, and medical historian Robert Willis lived and practised there from 1846 until his death in 1878. Sir Ralph Moor, high commissioner of the British

Southern Nigeria Protectorate Southern Nigeria was a British protectorate in the coastal areas of modern-day Nigeria formed in 1900 from the union of the Niger Coast Protectorate with territories chartered by the Royal Niger Company below Lokoja on the Niger River. The L ...

poisoned himself there in 1909. The coroner's jury determined that "the poison was deliberately taken whilst temporarily insane after suffering acutely from insomnia", having heard evidence that Moor had suffered for the last four years on his return from Africa with malarial and backwater fever that induced insomnia.

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