 The English writer Mary Lutyens stayed at The Manor in the 1920s and described it as "a huge and hideous villa".The young Indian Jiddu Krishnamurti, who was presented as the new "World Teacher", stayed in nearby David Street with his brother Nitya while Lutyens—his eventual biographer—stayed at The Manor.The Theosophical Society bought the house in 1925, holding it under a trust deed.