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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

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 Andrews church. The house was then occupied by William Baird (1848-1918); his widow died there in 1932.

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. It 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

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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. Kingsley, Nicholas. "Baird, William (1848-1918)". Landed Families.
8. "Court Circular". The Times. 25 July 1935. p. 17 – via he Times Digital Archive.
9. "Deaths". The Times. 19 April 1937. p. 1 – via The Times Digital Archive.
10. "Mind Changed in Five Days". Evening Telegraph. 29 June 1938. p. 4 – via British Library Newspapers.
11. "Ham & Petersham". Richmond Herald. 8 November 1947. p. 6.
12. "Court Circular". The Times. 6 June 1958. p. 14 – via The Times Digital Archive.
13. "Up the Junction". London on Location.

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