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Dorneywood
Dorneywood is an eighteenth-century Georgian house with Victorian and later additions, rebuilt after a fire in 1910, near Burnham in the South Bucks District of Buckinghamshire, England. It was given to the National Trust by Lord Courtauld-Thomson in 1947 as a country home for a senior member of the Government, usually a Secretary of State or Minister of the Crown.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Visitor information )〕 The Dorneywood Trust has the objective of 'maintaining the mansion house and gardens of Dorneywood'.〔(2008 Accounts and Annual Report )〕
==Occupancy of the house==
The Prime Minister alone decides which Minister or Secretary of State is to occupy the house. In previous administrations it has been the residence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer and, prior to May 31, 2006, was occupied by Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott. Prescott was forced to relinquish occupancy of Dorneywood, following a series of scandals over an affair with civil servant Tracey Temple and a snatched paparazzi photograph of him playing croquet on the lawn of the property whilst the Prime Minister Tony Blair was out of the country on a visit to Washington. However, given the controversies over John Prescott's use of the house, senior politicians were reluctant to use it.〔http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article2532776.ece〕〔 The house was eventually taken over by Alistair Darling, Chancellor of the Exchequer when Gordon Brown became Prime Minister in 2007.〔(''Telegraph'', 18 May 2010, "Grace-and-favour-homes" )〕 "A spokesman for Mr Brown ... explained that the house ... was owned by a trust, and would revert first to the Lord Mayor of London and then to the American Ambassador, if the Chancellor did not want it".〔(''Independent'', 13 June 1997, "Grace... but should they still be in favour?" )〕
Various former Prime Ministers (before achieving the premiership) have occupied the house, among them Anthony Eden; he and his wife had disliked the house. However, on becoming Prime Minister, Alec Douglas-Home was reluctant to forsake the more comfortable and modern Dorneywood for the antique splendours of Chequers. Another, James Callaghan as Foreign Secretary, also had the use of Dorneywood (later Chevening was to become the official country home for the holder of that office). The last person to have lived at the house before becoming Prime Minister was John Major.〔
In 2010, George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, took occupancy of the house.
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