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Worplesdon Place Hotel, Guildford
Worplesdon Place Hotel near Guildford, Surrey is a house of historical significance. It appears to have been built in about 1845 by Sir William Bovill. It was a private residence for the next 100 years and was owned by several notable people. In the 1950s it became a hotel and still operates in this manner today. The hotel provides accommodation and restaurant facilities and caters for special events particularly weddings.
==Sir William Bovill and Lady Maria Bovill==
William Bovill was born in 1814 in Barking Essex. His father was Benjamin Bovill of Durnford Lodge in Wimbledon. He began his legal career as an article clerk in London and was called to the bar in 1841. In 1844 he married Maria Bolton of Lee Park in Blackheath. It seems it was about this time that he built Worplesdon Lodge (later renamed Worplesdon Place) as there is a record of a donation given by Maria in 1845 which she records her address as Worplesdon Lodge, Guildford.〔 p. 16.〕
William became a QC in 1855 and was elected Member of Parliament for Guildford in 1857. In 1866 he was appointed Solicitor-General and shortly after became a Chief Justice. Bovill became famous throughout the country as the judge in the Tichborne trial. This was one of the most celebrated cases of the Victorian period which concerned the claim of a man to be Roger the long-lost son of the wealthy Tichbornes. William dismissed his claim and ordered that he be indicted for perjury.〔A. Hamilton, ‘Bovill, Sir William (1814–1873)’, rev. Mary Heimann, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2009.〕
William and Maria had eight children and Worplesdon Lodge became their country estate. The newspapers record frequent fund raising bazaars in the grounds of their house.〔Sussex Agricultural Express - Saturday 27 August 1859, p. 5.〕 It appears that in the 1860s the property was fairly substantial as at one event the house is referred to as a mansion and it is mentioned that there is a hall adjoining the mansion in which 120 children were entertained on this occasion.〔Surrey Advertiser - Saturday 29 December 1866, p. 3.〕 In about 1868 they sold the property to Joseph Hornby Baxendale.
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