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Revision as of 17:37, 28 December 2024 editAndyScott (talk | contribs)Extended confirmed users6,133 edits ←Created page with ''''Forbes House''', Ham Common in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames was built in 1996 for Sean O'Brien who founded Telstar Records. It replaced an earlier house built in 1936 which in turn had replaced the original Georgian House. It was once the home of Claude Bowes-Lyon, Lord Glamis.<ref name=Sampson >{{Cite journal |last=Sampson |first=Ju...'Tag: citing a blog or free web host  Revision as of 19:52, 28 December 2024 edit undoAndyScott (talk | contribs)Extended confirmed users6,133 edits →HistoryTag: Visual editNext edit →
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In 1872 the house was bought by Harry Warren Scott (1833–1889) the son of ], after his marriage in 1870. His wife ] (1832–1918) had a daughter, ] (1862–1938), from her first marriage who in 1881 married Claude George Bowes-Lyon, Lord Glamis, at ]. They went on to have ten children. Their first child, Violet Hyacinth Bowes-Lyon (1882–1893), died of ] at Forbes House; she is buried in ]. Their youngest daughter, ], the late Queen Mother, used to come and stay with her grandmother at Forbes House.<ref>{{Cite web |date=28 April 2017 |title=Read a book about the history of Ham |url=https://60at60challenges.blogspot.com/2017/04/task-54-read-book-about-history-of-ham.html}}</ref><ref name="Sampson" /><ref>{{cite book|author=Hugo Vickers| author-link = Hugo Vickers|title=Elizabeth: The Queen Mother| publisher=Arrow Books/]|year= 2006|isbn=978-0-09-947662-7|page =7}}</ref> In 1872 the house was bought by Harry Warren Scott (1833–1889) the son of ], after his marriage in 1870. His wife ] (1832–1918) had a daughter, ] (1862–1938), from her first marriage who in 1881 married Claude George Bowes-Lyon, Lord Glamis, at ]. They went on to have ten children. Their first child, Violet Hyacinth Bowes-Lyon (1882–1893), died of ] at Forbes House; she is buried in ]. Their youngest daughter, ], the late Queen Mother, used to come and stay with her grandmother at Forbes House.<ref>{{Cite web |date=28 April 2017 |title=Read a book about the history of Ham |url=https://60at60challenges.blogspot.com/2017/04/task-54-read-book-about-history-of-ham.html}}</ref><ref name="Sampson" /><ref>{{cite book|author=Hugo Vickers| author-link = Hugo Vickers|title=Elizabeth: The Queen Mother| publisher=Arrow Books/]|year= 2006|isbn=978-0-09-947662-7|page =7}}</ref>


Henry Warren Scott died on 23 August 1889 at Forbes House and is buried in St Andrews church.<ref>{{Cite news|date=26 August 1889|title=THE LATE MR HARRY SCOTT OF BALGAY|work=Dundee Courier|url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/R3213032470/BNCN?u=rtl_ttda&sid=bookmark-BNCN&xid=e600cfc6|access-date=13 July 2021|via=British Library Newspapers}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=27 August 1889|title=Deaths|page=1|work=Times|url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CS17223963/TTDA?u=rtl_ttda&sid=bookmark-TTDA&xid=c33f21b7|access-date=13 July 2021|via=The Times Digital Archive}}</ref> The house was then occupied by William Baird (1848-1918); his widow died there in 1932.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kingsley |first=Nicholas |title=Baird, William (1848-1918). |url=https://landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2018/04/328-baird-of-lochwood-house-cambusdoon.html |website=Landed Families}}</ref> Henry Warren Scott died on 23 August 1889 at Forbes House and is buried in St Andrew's church;<ref>{{Cite news|date=26 August 1889|title=THE LATE MR HARRY SCOTT OF BALGAY|work=Dundee Courier|url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/R3213032470/BNCN?u=rtl_ttda&sid=bookmark-BNCN&xid=e600cfc6|access-date=13 July 2021|via=British Library Newspapers}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=27 August 1889|title=Deaths|page=1|work=Times|url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CS17223963/TTDA?u=rtl_ttda&sid=bookmark-TTDA&xid=c33f21b7|access-date=13 July 2021|via=The Times Digital Archive}}</ref> his stepdaughters Violet Cavendish-Bentinck and Hyacinth Jessup commissioned Sir ] to create the memorial East window in St Andrew's church.<ref name=Greenwood>{{Cite book |last=Greenwood |first=Silvia |title=History of St Andrew's Ham Common |year=1982 |location=Ham Library}}</ref> Hyacinth died at Forbes house in 1916.<ref>{{Cite news |date=12 December 1916 |title=Deaths |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CS17237900/TTDA?u=rtl_ttda&sid=bookmark-TTDA&xid=a8866aa9 |work=The Times |via=The Times Digital Archive}}</ref> The house was then occupied by William Baird (1848–1918) and his widow Caroline Muriel (1861–1932) died there; she had her portrait painted as a child by ].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kingsley |first=Nicholas |title=Baird, William (1848-1918). |url=https://landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2018/04/328-baird-of-lochwood-house-cambusdoon.html |website=Landed Families}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Caroline Muriel Callander, later Mrs Baird (c 1861 - 1932) |url=https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/5562 |website=National Galleries Scotland}}</ref>


Mrs Winifred Buckley purchased the Georgian House in 1935,<ref>{{Cite news |date=25 July 1935 |title=Court Circular |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CS285682937/TTDA?u=rtl_ttda&sid=bookmark-TTDA&xid=0e15cf95 |work=The Times |pages=17 |via=he Times Digital Archive}}</ref> the house was demolished to be replaced in 1936 with a new house designed by Oswald P. Milne; she died in 1937.<ref>{{Cite news |date=19 April 1937 |title=Deaths |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CS17248403/TTDA?u=rtl_ttda&sid=bookmark-TTDA&xid=6bcd198f |work=The Times |pages=1 |via=The Times Digital Archive}}</ref> The house was then owned by Sir Francis Peek from 1938 until 1946.<ref>{{Cite news |date=29 June 1938 |title=Mind Changed in Five Days |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/JF3237714430/BNCN?u=rtl_ttda&sid=bookmark-BNCN&xid=9e96410f |work=Evening Telegraph |pages=4 |via=British Library Newspapers}}</ref> Lady Grace Dance, the widow of ] lived here in the 1940s.<ref>{{Cite news |date=8 November 1947 |title=Ham & Petersham |work=Richmond Herald |pages=6}}</ref> It was used as an old people's home until this closed in 1992.<ref>{{Cite news |date=6 June 1958 |title=Court Circular |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CS235887302/TTDA?u=rtl_ttda&sid=bookmark-TTDA&xid=9581297a |work=The Times |pages=14 |via=The Times Digital Archive}}</ref><ref name=Sampson /> Mrs Winifred Buckley purchased the Georgian House in 1935,<ref>{{Cite news |date=25 July 1935 |title=Court Circular |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CS285682937/TTDA?u=rtl_ttda&sid=bookmark-TTDA&xid=0e15cf95 |work=The Times |pages=17 |via=he Times Digital Archive}}</ref> the house was demolished to be replaced in 1936 with a new house designed by Oswald P. Milne; she died in 1937.<ref>{{Cite news |date=19 April 1937 |title=Deaths |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CS17248403/TTDA?u=rtl_ttda&sid=bookmark-TTDA&xid=6bcd198f |work=The Times |pages=1 |via=The Times Digital Archive}}</ref> The house was then owned by Sir Francis Peek from 1938 until 1946.<ref>{{Cite news |date=29 June 1938 |title=Mind Changed in Five Days |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/JF3237714430/BNCN?u=rtl_ttda&sid=bookmark-BNCN&xid=9e96410f |work=Evening Telegraph |pages=4 |via=British Library Newspapers}}</ref> Lady Grace Dance, the widow of ] lived here in the 1940s;<ref>{{Cite news |date=8 November 1947 |title=Ham & Petersham |work=Richmond Herald |pages=6}}</ref> there is a memorial stained-glass window to ] in St Andrew's Church. The house was used as an old people's home until this closed in 1992.<ref>{{Cite news |date=6 June 1958 |title=Court Circular |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CS235887302/TTDA?u=rtl_ttda&sid=bookmark-TTDA&xid=9581297a |work=The Times |pages=14 |via=The Times Digital Archive}}</ref><ref name=Sampson />


The house appeared in the film ] (1968) as the Chelsea home of Polly (Suzy Kendall).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Up the Junction |url=https://londononlocation.co.uk/films/up-the-junction/ |website=London on Location}}</ref> The house appeared in the film ] (1968) as the Chelsea home of Polly (Suzy Kendall).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Up the Junction |url=https://londononlocation.co.uk/films/up-the-junction/ |website=London on Location}}</ref>

Revision as of 19:52, 28 December 2024

Forbes House, Ham Common in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames was built in 1996 for Sean O'Brien who founded Telstar Records. It replaced an earlier house built in 1936 which in turn had replaced the original Georgian House. It was once the home of Claude Bowes-Lyon, Lord Glamis.

Description

Forbes House

The present Forbes House overlooking Ham Common is a brick-built mansion using two colours of brick, reconstituted stone, and wide timber window surrounds, designed by the architect Julien Bicknell. The front door case was carved by Dick Reid.

History

In the early 19C the house was occupied by Colonel Gordon Elliot Forbes (1783–1871), the son of Gordon Forbes (1738–1828).

In 1872 the house was bought by Harry Warren Scott (1833–1889) the son of Sir William Scott, 6th Baronet, of Ancrum, after his marriage in 1870. His wife Louisa Scott (1832–1918) had a daughter, Cecilia Nina (1862–1938), from her first marriage who in 1881 married Claude George Bowes-Lyon, Lord Glamis, at St Peter's Church, Petersham. They went on to have ten children. Their first child, Violet Hyacinth Bowes-Lyon (1882–1893), died of diphtheria at Forbes House; she is buried in St Andrew's churchyard. Their youngest daughter, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, the late Queen Mother, used to come and stay with her grandmother at Forbes House.

Henry Warren Scott died on 23 August 1889 at Forbes House and is buried in St Andrew's church; his stepdaughters Violet Cavendish-Bentinck and Hyacinth Jessup commissioned Sir Ninian Comper to create the memorial East window in St Andrew's church. Hyacinth died at Forbes house in 1916. The house was then occupied by William Baird (1848–1918) and his widow Caroline Muriel (1861–1932) died there; she had her portrait painted as a child by George Frederic Watts.

Mrs Winifred Buckley purchased the Georgian House in 1935, the house was demolished to be replaced in 1936 with a new house designed by Oswald P. Milne; she died in 1937. The house was then owned by Sir Francis Peek from 1938 until 1946. Lady Grace Dance, the widow of George Dance lived here in the 1940s; there is a memorial stained-glass window to Sir George Dance in St Andrew's Church. The house was used as an old people's home until this closed in 1992.

The house appeared in the film Up the Junction (1968) as the Chelsea home of Polly (Suzy Kendall).

References

  1. ^ Sampson, June (7 February 1998). "The Petersham wedding which produced a future Queen of England". News Shopper – via News Shopper.
  2. "Forbes House, London". Julian Bicknell Associates.
  3. "Read a book about the history of Ham". 28 April 2017.
  4. Hugo Vickers (2006). Elizabeth: The Queen Mother. Arrow Books/Random House. p. 7. ISBN 978-0-09-947662-7.
  5. "THE LATE MR HARRY SCOTT OF BALGAY". Dundee Courier. 26 August 1889. Retrieved 13 July 2021 – via British Library Newspapers.
  6. "Deaths". Times. 27 August 1889. p. 1. Retrieved 13 July 2021 – via The Times Digital Archive.
  7. Greenwood, Silvia (1982). History of St Andrew's Ham Common. Ham Library.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  8. "Deaths". The Times. 12 December 1916 – via The Times Digital Archive.
  9. Kingsley, Nicholas. "Baird, William (1848-1918)". Landed Families.
  10. "Caroline Muriel Callander, later Mrs Baird (c 1861 - 1932)". National Galleries Scotland.
  11. "Court Circular". The Times. 25 July 1935. p. 17 – via he Times Digital Archive.
  12. "Deaths". The Times. 19 April 1937. p. 1 – via The Times Digital Archive.
  13. "Mind Changed in Five Days". Evening Telegraph. 29 June 1938. p. 4 – via British Library Newspapers.
  14. "Ham & Petersham". Richmond Herald. 8 November 1947. p. 6.
  15. "Court Circular". The Times. 6 June 1958. p. 14 – via The Times Digital Archive.
  16. "Up the Junction". London on Location.
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