 | This article includes a list of general references, but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations .(December 2022) |
Greaves House, now known as Greaves Park, is a Grade II listed house in Lancaster, England, now a pub and restaurant, and is also the name of the surrounding public park. [1] [2] [3] It was built in 1843 by the Reverend Samuel Simpson and was the residence of many notable people for the next century.
Samuel Simpson (1802-1881) built Greaves House in 1843. There is a date stone with the family crest of a lion over the entrance. He was born in 1802 in Lancaster. His father was John Simpson, a West Indies merchant. He was trained to be an attorney and for many years he worked in this profession. [4] He was also the Director of the Liverpool and Leeds District Railway. [5]
In 1843 shortly before his marriage, he built Greaves House. At that time it was called "The Greaves". In the following year he married Ann Atkinson who was the daughter of Richard Atkinson of Ellel Grange in Lancashire. [6] The couple had eight children, five boys and three girls.
In 1851 at the age of 49 Samuel decided to become a clergyman. He was ordained by the Archbishop of Canterbury and was appointed as Chaplain to St Thomas Church, Douglas, Isle of Man. He remained there until his retirement in 1867 and then returned to Greaves House in about 1870 and lived there until 1874 when he sold it to Richard Leeming. After that he then went to Bristol to live for some years and then to Kingston House in Chester where he died in 1881 at the age of 78.
During the time that Samuel lived on the Isle of Man he rented the house to wealthy tenants. One of these was Dr Edward Denis de Vitre (1806-1878) who was an eminent physician and was instrumental in the establishment of the Royal Albert Hospital. He and his wife Janet lived there from about 1855 until 1870. He then moved to Elms in Bare near Lancaster and died there in 1878.
In 1873 Rev Samuel Simpson advertised the house for sale. It read as follows.
Richard Leeming (1818-1888) who bought the house in 1874 was an extremely wealthy corn merchant. He was born in 1818 in Lancaster. His father was William Leeming and his mother was Margaret Whiteside. In the 1850s he went into business with his cousin Robert Whiteside to form the company of corn merchants called Whiteside and Leeming which made very large profits. He was also for many years a member of the Lancaster Town Council and Director of the Lancaster Banking Company. [8]
In 1853 he married Eliza Brettaugh and the couple had nine children, four boys and five girls. The family were devout Catholics and donated considerable amounts to Lancaster Cathedral. In 1888 shortly before he died Richard bought the elaborate organ which still exists in the Church today. On the organ loft, just above the central aisle the Leeming family crest can be seen. [9]
Richard died in 1888 and his will allowed the Trustees to sell Greaves House only after the death of his widow Eliza and after that only if there were less than two unmarried daughters wishing to live there. All of Richard's five daughters remained unmarried. Two of them died before 1925 and one of them became a nun. His wife Eliza died in 1890. This left Mary Eliza and Mary Frances living in the house. In January 1937 Mary Eliza died leaving her last sister Mary Frances Leeming no longer legally permitted to live there. In 1938 she moved to Pringle Head in Warton, Lancashire [10] and died there in 1954 at the age of 85.
Once the house became vacant in 1938 it was sold to Lancaster City Council. The Council rented the building to the Post Office Telephones Department (now the Post Office Telecommunications Department) who used it to accommodate their administrative staff. They were granted a lease for three years in 1938 [11] and were still residents in 1957. [12] In the 1960s it became The Loyne School, for children with severe learning difficulties: the school moved to premises in Sefton Drive in Lancaster. [13] It was listed in the Education Committees' Year Book for 1962 as a school named Greave House. [14]
As of 2022 [update] the house is a pub and restaurant in the Chef & Brewer chain. [15]
Bayswater is an area within the City of Westminster in West London. It is a built-up district in the West End with a population density of 17,500 per square kilometre, and is located between Kensington Gardens to the south, Paddington to the north-east, and Notting Hill to the west.
Belton House is a Grade I listed country house in the parish of Belton near Grantham in Lincolnshire, England, built between 1685 and 1687 by Sir John Brownlow, 3rd Baronet. It is surrounded by formal gardens and a series of avenues leading to follies within a larger wooded park. Belton has been described as a compilation of all that is finest of Carolean architecture, said to be the only truly vernacular style of architecture that England had produced since the Tudor period. It is considered to be a complete example of a typical English country house; the claim has even been made that Belton's principal façade was the inspiration for the modern British motorway signs which give directions to stately homes.
The Park–McCullough Historic Governor's Mansion is one of the best-preserved Victorian mansions in New England. It is a thirty-five room mansion, set on 200 acres of grounds, and located off Vermont Route 67A in North Bennington, Vermont, USA.
Prospect Park is a public park in the western suburbs of Reading situated north of the Bath Road in the English county of Berkshire. It is the largest and most popular park in Reading, and includes a large regency style house, now known as Prospect Park Mansion House and previously as Prospect House. There are also sporting facilities and the Prospect Park Miniature Railway within the 50 hectares of parkland, and a restaurant in the Mansion House.
The Morris–Jumel Mansion or Morris House is an 18th-century Federal style museum home in upper Manhattan, New York City. It was built in 1765 by Roger Morris, a British military officer, and served as a headquarters for both sides in the American Revolution.
The Supreme Court of Illinois is the state supreme court, the highest court of the judiciary of Illinois. The court's authority is granted in Article VI of the current Illinois Constitution, which provides for seven justices elected from the five appellate judicial districts of the state: three justices from the First District and one from each of the other four districts. Absent mid-term vacancy, each justice is elected for a term of ten years, which may be renewed and the chief justice is elected by the court from its members for a three-year term.
David Hall was an American lawyer and politician from Lewes, in Sussex County, Delaware. He was an officer in the Continental Army during the American Revolution, and member of the Democratic-Republican Party, who served as Governor of Delaware.
Sutton Scarsdale Hall is a Grade I listed Georgian ruined stately home in Sutton Scarsdale, just outside Chesterfield, Derbyshire.
The Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site, previously known as the Benjamin Harrison Home, is the former home of the 23rd president of the United States, Benjamin Harrison. It is in the Old Northside Historic District of Indianapolis, Indiana. Harrison's 16-room house was built from 1874 to 1875. It was from the front porch of the house that Harrison instituted his famous Front Porch Campaign in the 1888 United States presidential campaign, often speaking to crowds on the street. In 1896, Harrison renovated the house and added electricity. He died there in a second-story bedroom in 1901. Today it is owned by the Arthur Jordan Foundation and operated as a museum to the former president by the Benjamin Harrison Foundation.
Sir William Milne was an Australian entrepreneur and politician, serving as the member for Onkaparinga in the South Australian House of Assembly from 1857 to 1868. He was elected to the South Australian Legislative Council in 1869, and was President of the South Australian Legislative Council from 25 July 1873 to 1881.
The Harvey P. Sutton House, also known as the H.P. Sutton House, is a six-bedroom, 4,000-square-foot (370 m2) Frank Lloyd Wright designed Prairie School home at 602 Norris Avenue in McCook, Nebraska. Although the house is known by her husband's name, Eliza Sutton was the driving force behind the commissioning of Wright for the design in 1905–1907 and the construction of the house in 1907–1908.
Carthona is a large Gothic Revival architecture style house situated at 5 Carthona Avenue, on a promontory of Darling Point, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The mansion is listed by the New South Wales Heritage Council as a building of historical significance and is listed as being of local significance on the New South Wales Heritage Database.
The Waiʻoli Mission District at Hanalei Bay, on Route 560 along the north shore of the island of Kauaʻi, is the site of a historic mission. The first permanent missionaries to the area arrived in 1834, and the district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
William Patterson Alexander was an American missionary to the Kingdom of Hawaii. His family continued to influence the history of Hawaii.
Amos Starr Cooke was an American educator and businessman in the Kingdom of Hawaii. He was patriarch of a family that influenced Hawaii during the 20th century.
The John and Eliza Barr Patterson House is a private house located at 6205 N. Ridge Road in Canton, Michigan, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.
The Bauer Manor, also known as the Davenport House or Davenport Hotel, is a hotel located at 1280 U.S. Route 12 near the unincorporated community of Tipton in Franklin Township in northern Lenawee County, Michigan. It was designated as a Michigan State Historic State on May 18, 1971 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 4, 2007.
Edward Martineau Perine was a merchant and planter in Cahaba, Alabama. Born at Southfield, Staten Island, New York, a son of Edward and Addra Guyon Perine, and a descendant of Daniel Perrin, "the Huguenot", Perine moved to Cahaba, Alabama, in the early 1830s, where he became a wealthy merchant and plantation owner. As early as 1832, Perine entered business as a partner with Thomas Moreng and Richard Conner Crocheron in the firm of Thomas Moreng and Company. Following Moreng's death in 1835, the business was dissolved and replaced by the partnership of Perine and Crocheron. Their store was located on the corner of Vine and Second North Streets in Cahaba, directly opposite Bell's Hotel. In 1850 Perine bought Crocheron's interest in the business and the storehouse and in 1853 Perine sold his mercantile establishment to the partnership of Samuel M. Hill and John R. Sommerville. In 1856, he was once again in business, this time in partnership with Sommerville in the firm of E. M. Perine and Company. The partnership dissolved in 1858, with Sommerville continuing as a salesman for E. M. Perine and Company. In 1860 Perine was in partnership again, this time as Perine and Hunter. Anna M. Gayle Fry, writing in her book Memories of Old Cahaba, describes E. M. Perine as "a merchant prince of ante-bellum days, a Northern gentleman of the old school who was universally beloved by all who knew him." Following the Civil War, Perine's business at Cahaba was ruined, as his daughter Mary E. Perine Tucker put it, having "lost all".
Charles Hervey Bagot, often referred to as "Captain Bagot", was an Irish-born South Australian pastoralist, mine owner and parliamentarian, and was the ancestor of a number of notable South Australian citizens.
The Hordern family is an Australian retailing dynasty.
