[)JRECTORY. J SURREY. PETERSHAM. 343 dent on pew rents about £154, in the gift of the Bishop of are also many valuable portraits and paintings, in excellent Southwark, and held since 1891 by the Rev. William Henry preservation, representing characters of note and various Oxley lii.A. of St. John's College, Oxford, and surrogate: the ancestors of the present family : John, second Dllke of impropriate tithe, about £50 yearly, belongs to the Earl of Argyll, was born here in 1678: James II. was ordered to Dysart. The vicarage house, a. structure of red brick. was retire here before he abdicated: the manor belonged to built by private subscription in 1889 and has since been en­ Chertsey Abbey, and afterwards successivE'ly to many royal larged by the present vicar. A cemetery of about half an acre and noble persons, including .Anne of Cleves, Ht>nry, Prince was formed as an addition to the churchyard in 1870 at a cost of Wales, Charles, Duke of York (afU>rwards Charles I.) and of £240, and is now under the control of the vicar. .Alms­ the Duke of Lauderdale. Douglas House is the property houses for six aged persons of the parish were rebuilt in 1!:!67, and residence of George T. Biddulph esq. By the " Richmond, at the cost of Madame Tildesley De Basset, who at her death Petersham and Ham Open Spaces .Act, 1902," the meadows left a legacy of £300 for the benefit of the female inmates ; they below the Hill, with the manorial rights in the Wood and Peter­ are now, together with the legacy, absorbed into a general sham common, to!!ether 49 acres, have been vested in the scheme for the administration of all the parochial charities Corporation of Richmond, to be perpetually used tor the of Petersham. The Institute, with chur"h room, opened purpose of recreation. and in addition a strip of land of 4.3 in Nov. 1900, was erected on the Bute House estate, pur­ acres, extending from River lane, Petersham, to Half-mile chased by the late Mrs. W arde, of Petersham House, in order Tree, Kingston, has also been dedicated to the public use to preserve the view of Richmond Hill The cost of the as a riverside promenade, that portion of it lvmg witnm Institute was about £16,000. The church of All Saints', the borough of Richmond being in charge of the Corporation, built in 1907-8, at the cost of the late Mrs. Warde, of Peter­ and the remainder being under the control of the "lurrev sham House, is an edifice of red brick and terra cotta in the County Council. The Lammas land has also now Romanesque style, from de•ligns by Mr. John Kelly, architect, been freed from Lammas ri,hts under the provisiom of the and was dedicated by the Bishop of Kingston on Easter eve, Act previously mentioned, and in connection therewith .April 10, 1909 : an immrrsion chamber is provided in the Petersham Oommon has been handed over by the lord f the baptistery for adults in addition to the font for inlants; the manor to a joint board of Conservators of Peter­ lattei, the gift (and design) of the vicar and his wife, sham and Richmond. Petersham Lodge, on the death of consists of three figures of angels in white marble, bearing Mrs. Metchim, was purchased by Sir Max L. Waechter, of on their wings a rouge royal bowl, and was the work of Signor Richmond, in order to preserve the view from Richmond Hill, Nicoli, sculptor to the King of Italy: the immersion chamber and was presented by him, together with Petersham .Ait, to the is also of marbles and gold mosaic: in the chancel are seven Corporation of Richmond ; the house has been leased at a. silver hanging lamps from Belgrade, a fine reredos of marble merely nominal rt>nt to H. M. King George V. as a holiday home and oak, and a pendant rood by Oscar Zwink : there is also for governesses, and is supported by voluntary contributions. a. series of fine stained windows : attached to the church is The principal landowners are the Earl of Dysart, who is lord a. room open free for music and reading every Sunday evening of the manor, Lionel Warde esq. and the Crown. 'l'he soil from 5 to 6.45, and a large central hall and other rooms. Ham is gravel and sand; subsoil, sand, chiefly in grass cu tivatwn. House, the seat of the Earl of Dysart, standing on low ground The area is 651 acres of land and 20 of water ; rateable value, near the banks of the Thames, is a large mansion of red £7,124; the population in 1911 was 572. brick, with short projecting semi-hexagonal wings, and Parish Clerk & Sexton, Hermon H. Figg, 2 Bute gardens. has two fronts, the principal front facing the ri11er SUDBROOK was an ancient ha,mlet and i;. mentioned so displaying a SE'ries of leaden busts, placed within arches early as 1266. Sudbrook House contains a magnificent in the brickwork ; the grounds, extending to a gra­ h.tll, built by George I. and given to John, so onJ Duke velled terrace with iron gates, include a wide lawn and of A1·gyll and Duke of Greenwich; it is named. by Sir Waiter fine shrubberies: in the centrr of the la"\\ n, on a rock· Scott in the " Heart of ~Iidlothia.n " m; t e pla.ce wn~. like pedestal raised on steps. is a colossal semi-recumbent Jeanie Deans begged her siste1's life. The Duke was born figure of stone, em blf'matical of the River Thames : th(' at Ham House, and died in Oct, 1743, at Sudbrook, in a room house was originally built by 'lir Thomas Vavasour, Marsh 'il opening from the hall. The Reform Bill of 1832 was drafted of the Household of James I. and appears to have been here during the tenancy of Lord Durham. Canning lived finished in 1610, since this date with the words " Vivat Rex " here, and here his only daughter H:trriett wa~ m1. ri d 4th appear on the principal door: it afterwards came into the April, 1825) to Sir Ulick John, 14th Earl of Clanricarde K.P. possession of the Tollemache family, and on the death of It is now the head quarters of the Richmond Golf Club. Sir Lionel Tollemache, in 1668, it was greatly altered and enlarged by his widow Elizabeth, Countess of Dysart, and Town Sub-Post, M. 0. & T. & Telephonic E. D. Ofli e.­ eventually wife of John, Duke of Lauderdale K.G- : the in­ Mrs. Martha Susan Lee, sub-postmistress. Letters arrive from Richmond at 8.20 a.m. 12 noon & 2.15 & 8 p.m.; terior contains a spacious hall, surroundE'd by a gallery, J hung with portraits, and adjoining the hall is a small chapel, dispatched at 5.15, 9.15, 10.45 & 11.45 a.m. & 4.15, 7 & while various doors open into suites of apartment<>, with 8.45 p.m.; sundays, 6.15 & 9.45 p.m.; parcels are received ceilings painted by Antonio Verrio, fanciful tapestry, and & dispatched same as mails. Closed 2 p.m. on wednesdays rare furniture and china, and in one cabinet is a crystal locket, Public Elementary School (mix d), built, with master"s containing hair of the Earl of Essex, Queen Elizabeth's hapless residence, in 1852, by Lord John (subsequently Earl) favourite: on the west side of the house is a gallery, 92 feet Russell, at a cost of £1,.)00; the school ""ill hold 120 in length, hung with fanuly portraits and other pictures : children ; average attendance, 7 5 ; 13. Re} n.c:.h ;:,~>.yr ne in this house the members of the notorious " Cabal " ministry Lond. t""niv. master ; }Iiss Ell a Figg & "\fiss Yiolet P uthero, of Charles H.'s reign held their meetings ; the house con­ assistant mistresses tains a library comprising some rare and valuable books, Carriers to London.-Carter, Pater'!On & Co. Lin.; Lond n among which are 12 Caxtons, one of them unique ; there Parcels Deliverv- Co. ; Picktotd::. Ltd. & Lee Brothers PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Mason J. Douglas Cattley, Gort cottage, Beagley Charles, ':lead gardener to J. H. Aldnch l\Irs. The Glen, River lane Petersham road M:a'lter esq. J.P. 7 Park place Beach Henry,Lime Tree cot.Petershamrd ~'[a,ter John Henry J.P. ::\-fontrose house, Bennett Mi,s, laundress, 7 San'lpit cotts · T D 1 h Petersham road Brook Henrv Francis, Fnx & D n. P H Bi ddul p h George ournay, oug as ouse J • Boxall Charles, 2 Michael's place, .Muddell Charle'l ~\rthur, \Voodvalc, Petersham road Petersham road Peterbham road Broughton William, coach builder, see Clarke Miss, The Bungalow, Petersham rd )!ulley Mrs. SudLrook cottage, Sudbrook Abbett, Broughton & Goodwright Cosham William, River lant> lane Clarke William James, farri r, Elm yard, Cottingham Capt. Henry I.angrishe R.A. Oxley Rev. \Vipiam Henry i.\I.A. [ vi{'ar & Petersham road (retired), Craigmyle, River lane surrog~~e ], \ warage, Sudbrook lan~ Culliford William George, Dy,art Arms Dav18 Jn. lllorgan, Cccil ho.Petersham rd Pollard • 1dne3 Joseph, Rose bank, R1ver hotel Davis Trevor, Sunnvsidr, Petersham rd lane Denman Eliza :Jirs.), ap<tl t nen ~. • r.c Dysart Earl of, Ham house ~uss Andrew S. Church ho. Petersh~m rd cot tag~', Petersham road Emerton Mrs. Tioad view, Petersham road :s:ewes·Cox Lady, Manor house, River la Doclrlrid_P John, johmastPr, Cecil" tt et!• Farren Mrs. Park gate, Petersham road l:rrderwood John Scott, The C.ottage, Sandpits road Hargreave Lt.-Col.