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Titsey Place is an English country house near Oxted in Surrey, England. It was successively the seat of the Gresham and Leveson-Gower families and is now preserved by a charitable trust for the nation. The house has its origins in a 16th-century house, which was built by Sir John Gresham on the site of a predecessor. The mostly Tudor house was demolished and rebuilt in the 18th century, before being refronted in 1826. Finally a tower was added in 1856. ==History== In the Middle Ages, Titsey was owned by the Uvedale family.〔Granville William Gresham Leveson-Gower (1856), ''Notices of the family of Uvedale of Titsey, Surrey, and Wickham, Hants'', (pp. 3-4 )〕 It was then an important house in the area, and its Uvedale owners were High Sheriffs of Surrey several times between 1393 and 1464, and also several times High Sheriffs of Hampshire between 1388 and 1493. The Gresham family reached the peak of their power and wealth in the sixteenth century, and Sir John Gresham, a rich City of London merchant, acquired Titsey from the heirs of John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, to whom it had been granted by Henry VIII. Gresham built a new house there near to the parish church, on the site of an older house. He was Lord Mayor of London in 1547. The house and estate passed through several generations of the Gresham family, who were created Baronets by Charles II at the time of his Restoration (1660). Sir John Gresham's heir was William Gresham, whose son was Sir Thomas Gresham (died 1630). His son and heir was Sir Edward Gresham. The successive baronets were Sir Marmaduke Gresham, 1st Baronet (1627-1696), Sir Edward Gresham, 2nd Baronet (1649-1709), Sir Charles Gresham, 3rd Baronet (1660-1718), Sir Marmaduke Gresham, 4th Baronet (1700-1742), Sir Charles Gresham, 5th Baronet (died 1750), and Sir John Gresham, 6th and last Baronet (1735-1801). Through the marriage of the heiress of the last Gresham, the house passed to the Leveson Gowers, a branch of the family of the Dukes of Sutherland. A Tudor house on the site was demolished and rebuilt by the last Gresham baronet in the 18th century, then in 1826 was given new fronts designed by William Atkinson. A tower by Philip Charles Hardwick was added in 1856.〔''Country Life'', vol. 196, issues 27-30 (2002), p. 115〕 John Preston Neale's ''Views of the Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen, in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland'' (1821) notes that "The Mansion... stands in a beautiful dell formed by a range of lofty chalk hills sheltering it from the north."〔J. P. Neale, ''Views of the Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen, in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland'', vol. 4 (Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1821), (p. 126 )〕 ''A Topographical History of Surrey'' (1844) says of the house - Many of the Uvedales are buried in the garden of Titsey Place, which contains the former parish graveyard. The last Gresham of Titsey pulled down the ancient parish church in 1776 and incorporated its site into his park. In 1865, a large yew-tree marked the location of the former church.〔 Sir Henry Leveson Gower (1873–1954), who was born at Titsey Place, was England cricket captain in 1909-1910.〔Alan Gibson, ''The Cricket Captains of England (1989), p. 112〕 Frederick Leveson-Gower (1871–1946) also played first-class cricket. The Leveson Gowers remained at Titsey until Thomas Leveson Gower died in 1992. By his Will, a charitable trust was established to preserve the house and gardens for the benefit of the public.〔 The remainder of the estate was left to his heir, David Innes, who was also appointed Governor of the charitable trust. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Titsey Place」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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