THE THREE ESTATES IDSWORTH STANSTED STAUNTON CONTENT CURRENT STATUS PRINCIPAL FAMILIES THEIR ORIGINS HISTORICAL EVOLUTION
THE THREE ESTATES ACREAGES IDSWORTH Now fragmented Originally STANSTED 1750 acres STAUNTON 1000 acres
Estate now sold off: House, Farm, Residential, Woodlands STANSTED CURRENT STATUS IDSWORTH Estate now sold off: House, Farm, Residential, Woodlands STANSTED Estate now ‘Stansted Park Foundation’, a charitable trust STAUNTON Multi-ownership estate, now ‘Sir George Staunton Country Park’ managed by Hampshire County Council
CURRENT STATUS STANSTED Remains a large country estate Last grand family remains involved Run as a Trust: Stansted Park Foundation Grounds open to public, House arranged visits only STAUNTON Estate dismembered and under different land ownerships Operating as a Country Park as a quiet recreation estate by Hampshire County Council IDSWORTH Original estate relocated to avoid railway New estate sold off, in different ownerships Now only residential and farming
PRINCIPAL FAMILIES Idsworth: 1780-1977 Clarke-Jervoise Stansted: 1924- 1983 Lords Bessborough Staunton: 1819-1859 Sir George Staunton b1781-d1859 1861-1875 William Stone b1834-d1896 1823-1904 Sir F Fitzwygram b1823-d1904
IDSWORTH CLARKE-JERVOISE FAMILY Jervoise, later Clarke-Jervoise baronets of Idsworth 1813 1780 House bought by Jervoise Clarke-Jervoise 1840 Old Idsworth demolished as near railway 1852 New house built across the valley 1977 Death of Major Arthur Clarke-Jervoise
IDSWORTH CLARKE-JERVOISE FAMILY Sir Samuel Jervoise 1st Baronet 1770-1852 Sir Jervoise Jervoise 2nd Baronet 1804-1889 Sir Arthur Henry Clarke-Jervoise 3rd Baronet 1856-1902 Sir Henry Jervoise 4th Baronet 1831-1908 Sir Harry Samuel Cumming Clarke-Jervoise 5th Baronet 1832-1911 Sir Eustace James Clarke-Jervoise 6th Baronet 1870-1916 Sir Dudley Alan Lestock Clarke-Jervoise 7th Baronet 1876-1933 Major Arthur Clark-Jervoise 18 -1974
STAUNTON COUNTRY PARK PRINCIPAL FAMILIES 1800-1819 William Garrett b ? - d1831 1818- 1861 Sir George Staunton b1781-d1859 1861-1875 William Stone MP b1834-d1896 ‘The New Besom’ 1875- 1904 Sir Frederick Fitzwygram b1823-d1904 1944- Country Park
STAUNTON COUNTRY PARK also known as LEIGH PARK PLEASURE GROUNDS 1800-1819 William Garrett (?-1831) Portsmouth Citizen Set-up ‘Voluntary Infantry’, ‘Havant & Emsworth Loyal Volunteers’ 1800 bought a house at Leigh Rebuilt by John Kent
STAUNTON COUNTRY PARK 1819-1859 Sir George (Thomas) Staunton b1781-d1859 Educated by father (Sir George) & tutor, focus on languages and on botany Father worked with Lord Macartney and took offices with him (India, China) Macartney - Ambassador to China: thee ships – HMS Lion, EA Hindostan, brig Jackall 1799 George returned to China as Writer with East India Company at Canton Father Sir George dies 1781, George became second baronet 1802 elected to Literary Club, 1803, at 22, became Fellow Royal Society Friend of Sir Joseph Banks, revisited China with William Kerr (Kew) & John Reeves (tea) 1817 returned to England (after five tours to China) 1818 hon doctorate of Oxford, elected MP St Michaels’ Cornwall 1819 bought Leigh House
1859 Sire George Staunton’s Estate
William Stone’s Estate 1861-1875 William Stone MP b1834-d1896 ‘The New Besom’
1859 Sire George Staunton’s Estate
STAUNTON COUNTRY PARK 1861-75 William Stone MP (b1834-d1896) ‘The New Besom’ Purchased estate for £60,000 Harrow & Trinity College, Cambridge, Fellow 1859 Moved and rebuilt house in ‘pointed Gothic Style’ on site of ‘Temple’