1. THE THREE ESTATES IDSWORTH STANSTED STAUNTON
CONTENT
CURRENT STATUS
PRINCIPAL FAMILIES
THEIR ORIGINS
HISTORICAL EVOLUTION

2. THE THREE ESTATES ACREAGES
IDSWORTH Now fragmented
Originally
STANSTED acres
STAUNTON acres

3. 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

4. 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

5. PRINCIPAL FAMILIES
Idsworth: Clarke-Jervoise
Stansted: Lords Bessborough
Staunton: Sir George Staunton b1781-d1859
William Stone b1834-d1896
Sir F Fitzwygram b1823-d1904

6. 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

7. IDSWORTH CLARKE-JERVOISE FAMILY
Sir Samuel Jervoise 1st Baronet
Sir Jervoise Jervoise 2nd Baronet
Sir Arthur Henry Clarke-Jervoise
3rd Baronet
Sir Henry Jervoise 4th Baronet
Sir Harry Samuel Cumming Clarke-Jervoise
5th Baronet
Sir Eustace James Clarke-Jervoise
6th Baronet
Sir Dudley Alan Lestock Clarke-Jervoise
7th Baronet
Major Arthur Clark-Jervoise

8. STAUNTON COUNTRY PARK PRINCIPAL FAMILIES
William Garrett b ? d1831
Sir George Staunton b1781-d1859
William Stone MP b1834-d1896
‘The New Besom’
Sir Frederick Fitzwygram b1823-d1904
Country Park

9. STAUNTON COUNTRY PARK also known as LEIGH PARK PLEASURE GROUNDS
William Garrett (?-1831)
Portsmouth Citizen Set-up ‘Voluntary Infantry’,
‘Havant & Emsworth Loyal Volunteers’
1800 bought a house at Leigh
Rebuilt by John Kent

10. STAUNTON COUNTRY PARK
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

11. 1859 Sire George Staunton’s Estate

12. William Stone’s Estate
William Stone MP b1834-d1896
‘The New Besom’

13. 1859 Sire George Staunton’s Estate

14. STAUNTON COUNTRY PARK
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’