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The Manor of Lackham IV : 19 th & 20 th century owners It may be that the Tufnells left Lackham just after Francis’ marriage – an account of the county of Somerset, dated 1822, places Col. Tufnell living just outside Bath in that year 31 . The Tufnells had certainly left Lackham by 1824; in that year “Henrietta Tufnell, Bath 32 ” was awarded the Silver Palette for a pencil drawing of a landscape in the category of “Polite Arts : copies in Chalk, Pencil and India Ink.”. Henrietta married Thomas Dewell of Dauntsey House, Wiltshire, four years 33 later at Box, Wiltshire 34 The Gentleman’s Magazine (1823 vol2 p367) reported “at Lacock Rev Henry Keays of Pewhill House near Chippenham to Fanny daughter Lt Col Tufnell of Lackham House May 22” so not quite right. 30 Burke (1838) 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 p433 Robert Henry Keayes, Charles Frederick Keayes and Fanny Bate Keays 31 Greenwood A & C (1822) Somersetshire Delineated section on Batheaston p19 To the south of the village is Bailbrook House the residence of Colonel Tufnell (this is wrong, Bailbrook is west of Batheaston, I know as for the first two and a half weeks I spent in Bath when I moved to the area in 1981 I lived at Bailbrook Villa, which is the residence below Bailbrook House, and when I was a self-employed gardener about twenty years later one of my contracts was for the gardens at the Villa. Bailbrook House was used as a Training venue and some years ago, when I was working with Virgin Mobile, we undertook training there; it’s a small local world. Auth.] 32 Transactions of the Society established at London for the encouragement of Arts, Manufacture and Commerce 1824 vol LXIII p xiv [ |this Society became the Royal Society for Art], also reported in The London Journal of Arts and Sciences 1825 pp386-7 33 Burke (1838) ibid 16 November 1830 34 Although some miles down the road. Box is the next village east along the A4 from Batheaston. Henrietta and Thomas had two sons Charles Goddard Dowell and another unnamed [Burke (1838) ibid]. 13
The Manor of Lackham IV : 19 th & 20 th century owners Lt Col Tufnell died in Bath in 1841. Uliana survived him by 7 years, dieing in 1848 35 Throughout the first half of the nineteenth century the trustees were allowing the Montagus to gradually sell off the outlying parts of the estate. Alderton was sold in 1827 – having suffered all the evils of non resident proprietorship. Its noble house had been pulled down and the materials and furnishings sold, its stately timber everywhere felled and fences neglected 36 In 1831 George CC Montagu’s son Frederick Conway Montagu was given as “of Lackham House” when he sold land at Reybridge to George White 37 . It is unclear when Frederick moved in but he had previously been living in Queen’s Square, Bloomsbury, London. George White took out a mortgage of £1000 from James Slade of Devizes 38 in April 1831 to buy the property. The property was described, in the insurance agreement White took out 39 , as being “5 cottages stone and brick built being situate near Reybridge in Lacock” and White himself is given as a baker of Lacock. In 1832 W J Lysley contracted to buy the Pewsham estate, the lands to the north and east of the river Avon. This would have included Little, Middle and 35 Gentleman’s Magazine 1848 p332 Jan 29 At Wilsford, aged 69, Mrs Uliana Magretta Tufnell, widow of Lieut. Col John Charles Tufnell, and dau of the late Rev John Fowell DD Rector of Bishopsbourne Kent 36 Thomson, J (1845) On the hagioscope and other parts of Alderton Church, Wilts . 37 Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre (henceforth W&SHC) 663/27 gives Frederick as being of Lackham 21 March 1831. 38 W&SHC 663/27 Who subsequently transferred the mortgage to John Deverell 26 April 1832 39 W&SHC 663/27 Insurance with Royal Exchange Insurance premium of 5s for the assurance of £300 14
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