What mansion combining Jacobean and Elizabethan styles with symmetrical Baroque massing is also the birthplace of a famous cricketer?
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Philip Pearson-Gregory Philip John Sherwin Pearson-Gregory (26 March 1888 – 12 June 1955) was an English cricketer. Pearson-Gregory was a right-handed batsman. He was born at the manor house of Harlaxton Manor in Harlaxton, Lincolnshire. He was originally educated at Eton College before proceeding to Brasenose College, Oxford.
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Harlaxton Manor Harlaxton Manor, built in 1837, is a manor house located in Harlaxton, Lincolnshire, England. Its architecture, which combines elements of Jacobean and Elizabethan styles with symmetrical Baroque massing, renders the mansion unique among surviving Jacobethan manors.
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The Hendre The Hendre, (Welsh: "Yr Hendre - a farmer's winter residence; literally meaning old home" ), is Monmouthshire's only full-scale Victorian country house, constructed in the Victorian Gothic style. It is located in the parish of Llangattock-Vibon-Avel, some 4 mi north-west of the town of Monmouth. Built in the eighteenth century as a shooting box, it was vastly expanded by the Rolls family in three stages throughout the nineteenth century and is most famous as the childhood home of Charles Stewart Rolls, co-founder of Rolls-Royce. The house is Grade II* Listed and is now the clubhouse of the Rolls of Monmouth Golf Club.
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George Figg George Figg (13 June 1824 – 20 July 1888) was an English cricketer. Figg was a right-handed batsman who bowls right-arm roundarm medium. He was born at Horsham, Sussex.
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Derek Levick Deryck Cyril Levick (27 May 1929 – July 2004) was an English cricketer. Levick was a right-handed batsman. He was born at Ealing, Middlesex, son of Robert and Emily Barratt.
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Philip Kington Philip Oliphant Kington (17 December 1832 – 2 July 1892) was an English businessman and landowner who inherited a Scottish clan chiefdom and also played a single first-class cricket game in Australia. From 1867, when he inherited Ardblair Castle in Scotland from his maternal Oliphant relatives, he took the triple-barrelled name "Kington-Blair-Oliphant". He was born at Clifton, Bristol and died at Datchet, then in Berkshire, now in Buckinghamshire.
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Wotton House Wotton House, or Wotton, in Wotton Underwood, Buckinghamshire, England, is a stately home built between 1704 and 1714, to a design very similar to that of the contemporary version of Buckingham House. The house is an example of English Baroque and a Grade I listed building.
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Edward Wormald Edward Wormald (4 December 1848 – 16 October 1928) was an English cricketer. Born at Islington, Middlesex, Wormald was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm fast.
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Homewood, Knebworth Homewood is an Arts and Crafts style country house in Knebworth, Hertfordshire, England. Designed and built by architect Edwin Lutyens around 1900–3, using a mixture of vernacular and Neo-Georgian architecture, it is a Grade II* listed building. The house was one of Lutyens' first experiments in the addition of classical features to his previously vernacular style, and the introduction of symmetry into his plans. The gardens, also designed by Lutyens, are Grade II listed in the National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.
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Alexander MacDougall (cricketer) Alexander William MacDougall (19 March 1837 – 1 November 1917) was an English cricketer. MacDougall's batting style is unknown. He was born at Kingston, Jamaica.
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James Challen senior James Challen (dates of birth and death unknown) was an English cricketer. Challen's batting style is unknown. Though his date of birth is not known, it is known he was christened on 11 August 1787 at Lurgashall, Sussex.
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Anthony Mather-Jackson Sir Anthony Henry Mather-Jackson, 6th Baronet (9 November 1899 — 11 October 1983) was an English colliery owner and manufacturer. He was an all-round cricketer who played for Derbyshire from 1920 to 1927.
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Joseph Pearson (cricketer) Joseph Garside Pearson (26 March 1860 – 18 January 1892) was an English cricketer. Pearson's batting and bowling styles are unknown. He was born at Worksop, Nottinghamshire.
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Isaac Walker (cricketer) Isaac Donnithorne Walker (8 January 1844 – 6 July 1898) was an English cricketer.
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Robert Bardsley Robert Vickers Bardsley {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (28 June 1890 – 26 July 1952) was an English cricketer and colonial administrator.
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Frognal House Frognal House is a Jacobean mansion in London, England, standing on the border of Sidcup in the London Borough of Bexley, and Chislehurst, in the London Borough of Bromley. It was built in the early 16th century.
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Merstone Manor Merston Manor (previously: Merestone) is a manor house in Merstone on the Isle of Wight, England. The manor was first mentioned in the Domesday Book. Prior to the Norman Conquest, Merston Manor was owned by the Brictuin family. The present home, built in 1605 in the Jacobean style by Edward Cheeke, was rebuilt in the Victorian era. This structure may be the oldest brick house on the Island. The manor now belongs to the Crofts family.
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Anthony Smith (cricketer) Anthony Mervyn Smith (born 26 February 1930) is a former English cricketer. Smith was a left-handed batsman who bowled slow left-arm orthodox. He was born at Castle Combe, Wiltshire.
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Wherstead Park, Suffolk Wherstead Park Mansion in Suffolk is a house of historical significance and is listed on the English Heritage Register. It was built in 1792 for Sir Robert Harland (1765-1848) by the famous architect Sir Jeffry Wyatville on the site of an older house. It was the residence of many notable people over the next two centuries. It is now a venue for weddings, conferences and special events.
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Penshurst Place Penshurst Place is a historic building near Tonbridge, Kent, 32 mi south east of London, England. It is the ancestral home of the Sidney family, and was the birthplace of the great Elizabethan poet, courtier and soldier, Sir Philip Sidney. The original medieval house is one of the most complete surviving examples of 14th-century domestic architecture in England. Part of the house and its gardens are open for public viewing. Many TV shows and movies like Merlin and The Others are filmed at Penshurst.
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William Deedes junior William Deedes (11 October 1834 – 27 May 1887) was an English cricketer and a Conservative Party politician. He was born in Saltwood and died in Saltwood Castle.
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Charlton House Among several English houses with the name Charlton House, the most prominent is a Jacobean building in Charlton, London. It is regarded as the best-preserved ambitious Jacobean house in Greater London. It was built in 1607–12 of red brick with stone dressing, and has an "E"-plan layout. The interior features a great hall, chapel, state dining room, saloon and gallery.