Beaufort House

For the Thames-side house in Chelsea owned by the 1st Duke of Beaufort in the seventeenth century, see Beaufort House (Chelsea).

Beaufort House, Ham Street, Ham, 2020

Beaufort House is an 18th-century grade II listed house in Ham, near Richmond, Surrey.

History

Beaufort House was built in about 1780.[1] It was originally the dower house to Ham House.[2]

In about 1855, a private Catholic girls school moved to Beaufort House.[3] In 1856, St Mary's Catholic Chapel was set up in its grounds, with a separate entrance for the public, and closed in 1870, when the school moved to Notting Hill.[1][3]

The house was listed grade II in 1983.[4]

Notable residents

Lady Juliana Fermor Penn lived there until her death in 1801.^[citation needed]

Admiral Sir William Parker, 1st Baronet, of Harburn died in 1802 at Beaufort House, which was his country estate when he was not living at 12 Crooms Hill, Greenwich.[5]

In 1901, Dr William Simpson Craig (1822-1893), the father of the psychiatrist Sir Maurice Craig and politician Norman Craig was living there, as was Norah Palmer Holroyd, an ancestor of Michael Holroyd.[6] From 1907 to 1920, Craig's son-in-law, Dr Macnamara (and his wife) lived there.[6]

The house is now home to Johnny Van Haeften, a British art dealer specialising in 16th and 17th century Dutch and Flemish Old Master paintings. Van Haeften now runs his business from a refurbished coach house in the grounds of Beaufort House.[7]

References

1. "Ham History Timeline – Ham is where the Heart is".
2. "A Petersham & Ham Walk". london-footprints.co.uk.
3. "Ham - St Thomas Aquinas". Taking Stock.
4. "BEAUFORT HOUSE, Non Civil Parish - 1080788 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk.
5. "Sheppey's Admiral: Sir William Parker". CaptainCookSociety.com. Retrieved 20 July 2021.
6. Michael Holroyd (1 August 2015). Basil Street Blues: A Family Story. Head of Zeus. pp. 30–. ISBN 978-1-78497-141-0.
7. Shaw, Anny (5 January 2017). "Old Master dealer Johnny Van Haeften opens gallery in London home". The Art Newspaper. Retrieved 19 July 2021.

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