3 Maps of Barn
Elms from the Stourhead Archives at the Wiltshire Record Office:
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Map of Barn Elms
from Richmond Council Archives
1915 Map showing
Ranelagh Club
plans from 1939
proposed leisure development circa 1939
Image of
projected development 2004
Residents
of Barn Elms
Properties in Barn Elms Park :
Manor (later Mansion) House,
Coach House and Stables,
Park Lodge,
Gardeners Cottage,
Farm House,
Farm Lodge,
Cottage.
Occupant of Manor House 1467 – 1480 :
Sir John Saye, Chancellor to King Edward IV
Occupant of Manor House 1480 – 1504 :
Thomas Thwayte
Occupant of Manor House 1504 - 1554 :
Sir Henry Wyatt
Occupant of Manor House 1555 – 1572 :
Sir Andrew Judd
Occupant of Manor House 1573 – 1577 :
Thomas Smythe
Occupant of Manor House 1577 – 1579 :
James Altham
Occupant of Manor House 1579 – 1580 :
Richard Martin
Occupants of Manor House 1580 -1602 :
Sir Francis Walsingham ;
Lady Walsingham (nee Barnes) ;
Second Lady Walsingham (daughter).
Occupant of Manor House 1602 – 1604 :
?? Princess Mary, daughter of James VI
Occupants of Manor House 1604 – 1628? :
Lord and Lady Kennedy
Occupant of Manor House 1628 – 1633 :
Edward Ferrers
Occupant of Manor House 1633 – 1639 :
Richard Groom
Leaseholder of Manor House 1639 – 1659 :
John Cartwright
1659? Confiscated by Parliament from Dean & Chapter of St Pauls (Freeholders);
Bought by Richard Shute?
Leasehold of Manor/Mansion House held by Cartwright family from ?1660 – 1750
Occupant of Manor House 1664 – 1665 :
Abraham Cowley, Poet
Occupant of Manor House ? - 1672 :
Alrezer Coffre (AKA Mr Higham (Hiam))
Unknown occupants 1672 – 1709 (House rebuilt approx 1694)
Possibly Mr Andrews
Occupant of Mansion House (or adjacent Dairy House) 1709 – 1720 :
Jacob Tonson (Secretary of Kit Cat Club)
Occupant of Mansion House 1721 to 1750 :
John Jacob Heidegger
Occupants of Mansion House 1750 to 1827 :
Richard Hoare and family
Occupants of Mansion House 1827 – ? :
Sir Thomas Colebrooke ;
Sir Lancelot Shadwell ;
John Barclay Chapman ;
Occupant of Mansion House in 1851 and 1861 Censuses :
John Short b1791 - Wine Merchant
Elisa, wife of John Short living in ?Rose Cottage, near to Church in 1851 census, dead by 1861.
Mr Garcia occupied the property some time between 1861 and 1870.
Occupants of Mansion House in 1871 Census: (Lease acquired 1870)
Henry Davis Pochin b1825 Merchant;
Agnes Pochin b1826 ;
Laura Pochin b1855 ;
Percival Pochin b1862 ;
Occupants of Mansion House in 1881 Census(to 1884) :
Charles McLaren b1851 ;
Laura McLaren b1855 ;
Elsie D McLaren b1880 ;
Henry D McLaren b1880 ;
Agnes Pochin b1826 ;
Percival Pochin b1862 ;
Occupants of Mansion House from 1884 - ?1939 :
Ranelagh Club :
Secretary: Charles James Barrett (1889);
Vice Chairman Sir George Hastings (moved to The Courts near Bradford on Avon in 1900s)
Sir Richard Phillips :
Morning Walk from London to Kew, 1816
Priscilla Wakefield :
"In an ancient mansion here, called Queen Elizabeth's Dairy,
lived and died Jacob Tonson, bookseller to Pope and the other
wits of that day. Here he built a gallery, at the time he was
secretary, for the accommodation of those noblemen, gentlemen and
geniuses, known by the name of the Kit-cat Club, ..."
From Cassell's
Greater London 1894
?by J. Buckler 1813
Rear of Barn Elms
1884?
Barn Elms
at the time of Sir Lancelot Shadwell