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Westhorpe House
Westhorpe House is a Grade II listed building near Little Marlow which was once the home of Field marshal Sir George Nugent.
==History==
The house was built for James Chase MP in the classical style in about 1700.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42532 )〕 It became the home of Dr. Isaac Maddox, Bishop of Worcester, and then of Everard Fawkener, Postmaster General, and later of Alexander Wynch, Governor of Madras, during the 18th century.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Houses of Local Interest & their Occupiers )〕 It was bought by Field marshal Sir George Nugent in October 1809.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sir George Nugent, 1st Baronet )〕 It passed to George Jackson, a landowner, in 1863〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Little Marlow Cricket Club )〕 and later to Major Herbert Gordon, an officer in the 93rd Highlanders,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal: The Mortimer-Percy Volume )〕 who was still living there in 1925.〔
The house was used as a prisoner of war camp during World War II〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Site of possible Second World War prisoner-of-war camp in the grounds of Westhorpe House )〕 and later became the UK head office of Lexmark who vacated the house in 2004.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Viability assessment )〕 In March 2014 it was still being marketed as a potential company head office.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Westhorpe House, Marlow )〕
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