This page is intended for curious and interesting items randomly discovered (mainly online!) which relate to the general history of Burley
Solid Silver Burley and New Forest Pony and Cattle Society Summertime Cup, hallmarked Birmingham 1931.
Recently sold on eBay.
Recently sold on eBay.
Inscribed with 5 winners for 1949-1953 (J Cree and Miss J C Parry)
Uniform, medals and documents of Major Walter Maxwell Henderson-Scott
(Currently being offered for sale by Pemburys)
https://www.pemburys.com/product-page/queens-westminster-rifles-major-w-m-henderson-scott-16th-bn-the-london-regt
The Henderson-Scott's lived in Burley from the 1930's, initially at Burley Beacon and later Frogmore Cottage. After Walter's death in 1959 his wife, Marjorie Rose de Paiva Henderson-Scott, moved to Durmast House until her death in 1962. Their ashes, together with two other family members (brother and sister-in-law), are interred at Burley Churchyard, and there is a memorial stained glass window in the Church dedicated to their son Nigel de Paiva Henderson-Scott of the Scots Guards who was killed in Tunisia in 1943 (see Burley and the Two World Wars, Cockram and Williams pp 196-7)
Circa 1750 reading chair once owned by James Mowbray and the Shaw Lefevre family both of Burley Manor
James Mowbray at Burley Manor from 1780 until 1801 and the Lefevre family 1807-1839
The chair is now the property of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fifth Avenue, New York, having been gifted in 1968 by William C Jackson
For further details and provenance see: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/205082
For further details and provenance see: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/205082
I have recently been informed that these are also known (incorrectly) as "cockfighting chairs" (thank you John!). Apparently antique dealers in the 20th Century described them as such. Further research required! See: crabtreefarmcollections.org/a-cock-fighting-chair/
A piece of paper glued to the bottom of the drawer beneath the chair seat is dated: T Eyre, 1 Sept 1815. Part of the text reads:-
The late James Mowbray Esq. of Burley Manor purchased this chair at Mr. Edmund Bott's (Barrister of Stourfield House, Bournemouth, c 1740-1788) Sale of Goods near Christchurch as the chair that belonged to Dr. Oliver Goldsmith (Irish writer and poet, 1728-1774) who used it when writing the Traveller and Deserted Village.
Thomas Eyre was steward of the Manor of Burley, he was directed by Charles Shaw LeFevre to write out a statement on the history of the chair as it was then known which is attached to the inside of the drawer.
Stourfield House:- openplaques.org/plaques/11011 and Edmund Bott at:- pokesdown.com (follow History/Pokesdown Past/Ch 1)
The late James Mowbray Esq. of Burley Manor purchased this chair at Mr. Edmund Bott's (Barrister of Stourfield House, Bournemouth, c 1740-1788) Sale of Goods near Christchurch as the chair that belonged to Dr. Oliver Goldsmith (Irish writer and poet, 1728-1774) who used it when writing the Traveller and Deserted Village.
Thomas Eyre was steward of the Manor of Burley, he was directed by Charles Shaw LeFevre to write out a statement on the history of the chair as it was then known which is attached to the inside of the drawer.
Stourfield House:- openplaques.org/plaques/11011 and Edmund Bott at:- pokesdown.com (follow History/Pokesdown Past/Ch 1)