Eastwick Park

Eastwick Park, also Eastwich Park, at Great Bookham in Surrey, England (for the period 1726–1958) was the family seat of the Howards of Effingham for about seventy years.

Eastwick Park, mid-19th century when owned by David Barclay

History

Eastwick Park was built by the French Huguenot architect Nicholas Dubois (c. 1665–1735) between 1726 and 1728 for Sir Conyers Darcy and his wife,[1] Elizabeth, daughter of John Rotherham of Much Waltham, Essex and the recent widow of Thomas Howard, 6th Lord Howard of Effingham.[2]

The Lawrells

James Lawrell senior, an engineer of the East India Company who had become a financial official in the Bengal Presidency,[3] settled at Eastwick. He arrived in Bengal in 1758, and left the Company's service in 1775.[4] He married in 1776 Catherine Holme Sumner, sister of the politician George Holme-Sumner, whose father William Brightwell Sumner had purchased Hatchlands Park, not far away from Eastwick Park, in 1768. He died in 1799.[5][6][7]

Book plate of James Lawrell (died 1799), impaling the arms of Sumner

Lawrell and his wife were in the Brighton circle of the Prince of Wales in the 1780s, and figure in an anecdote of one of his pranks, circulated by Court Dewes.[8] Their daughter Georgiana Lawrell (born c.1783), who married George Augustus Quentin, became later a major figure of Regency-period gossip. She and a sister moved to London around 1801, as their mother remarried to a husband named Hinchman.[9]

In 1801, Eastwick Park was sold by Richard Howard, the 4th and last Earl of Effingham (of the first creation), to the trustees of James Lawrell junior, the eldest son.[10][11] He had substantial building work done on the house, in 1806–1807.[12] He sold Eastwick Park in 1809, to Louis Bazalgette.[13][14]

Later owners

David Barclay acquired Eastwick Park in 1833, by purchase from the estate of Louis Bazalgette, who died in 1830.[15][16] The sale followed a chancery case involving Frances Bazalgette, the widow, and Evelyn, son of Louis.[17] Barclay had work done on the house, possibly involving Decimus Burton. He rented it out from 1847, when he was experiencing financial troubles. But his son Hedworth David Barclay occupied it; and after his death it was sold by his son Hedworth Trelawny Barclay, in 1880.[18]

Eastwick Park housed Southey Hall Boys Preparatory School from 1924 until 1954 (during World War II the boys were evacuated to Devon and Eastwick Park was turned into accommodation for Canadian soldiers). The house was empty from 1954 until 1958 when was demolished to make way for housing and Eastwick County Primary School (which has since been renamed Eastwick Junior School).[1][19]

Eastwick Park, 1904 photograph

Notes
  1. Bazalgette 2011.
  2. Brooke 1964.
  3. Calendar of Persian correspondence, being letters, referring mainly to affairs in Bengal, which passed between some of the company's servants and Indian rulers and notables (1911), p. 390 note 5. JSTOR 10.2307/saoa.crl.26552581
  4. Guenther, Alan M. "Seeking Employment in the British Empire: Three Letters from Rajah Gobind Ram Bahadur" (PDF). digital.library.mcgill.ca. p. 151 note 67.
  5. The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle. E. Cave. 1799. p. 627.
  6. Burke, John (1835). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, Enjoying Territorial Possessions Or High Official Rank: But Uninvested with Heritable Honours. Henry Colburn. p. 61.
  7. The Gentleman's and London Magazine: Or Monthly Chronologer, 1741-1794. J. Exshaw. 1741. p. 771.
  8. Augusta Hall, Baroness Llanover, (editor) (1861). The Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary Granville, Mrs. Delany; with interesting reminiscences of King George the Third and Queen Charlotte : Delany, Mrs. (Mary), 1700-1788 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming. III. London: R. Bentley. p. 342.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
  9. Harris, Jocelyn (2017). Satire, Celebrity, and Politics in Jane Austen. Bucknell University Press. p. 234. ISBN 978-1-61148-843-2.
  10. Brayley, Edward Wedlake (1850). A Topographical History of Surrey. G. Willis. p. 507.
  11. Brayley, Edward Wedlake (1850). A Topographical History of Surrey. G. Willis. p. 469.
  12. Country Life. 1921. p. 537.
  13. Ogilvy, James S. (1914). A Pilgrimage in Surrey. George Routledge & Sons. p. 265.
  14. Halliday, Stephen (2001). The Great Stink of London. History Press. p. 22. ISBN 978-0-7524-9378-7.
  15. Brayley, Edward Wedlake (1841). A Topographical History of Surrey. R. B. Ede. p. 469.
  16. "Louis Bazalgette ???? - 1830, Legacies of British Slave-ownership". ucl.ac.uk.
  17. Britain, Great (1833). The London Gazette. T. Neuman. p. 1211.
  18. Kingsley, Nick (15 March 2019). "(368) Barclay of Bury Hill and Eastwick Park". Landed families of Britain and Ireland.
  19. EJS staff 2014.
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