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Community Matters with Waitrose East Street taking shape hose of you who shop at Waitrose will have noticed that the t’s still chaotic, but East Street looks as if it’s Horsham Society, during the month of July, has been one of the beginning to come together at last. One can now get a Tthree good causes in the store’s excellent Community Matters scheme. Ifeel for what the relaid surface is going to look like, and Each month the Horsham branch donates £1,000 between three causes, I reckon the pattern they’ve come up with is pretty based proportionately on the number of green tokens allocated by its attractive – sparkly bits in the stonework and all. The customers. first tentative steps outside are being taken by restaurants, with a few tables and chairs emerging into This month we share the scheme with SSAFA Forces Help and St the street, so let’s hope the work will be complete before John’s Cadets (good luck to all three of us), and will report back in due an autumn chill sets in. Let’s also hope delivery lorries course on donation levels. Meanwhile don’t disfigure the fancy new pedestrian way with nasty, we thank Waitrose for having included horrid oil deposits. the Society, and will put any financial contribution achieved towards projects such as the publication of documents (like our recent and very successful Local List update Local List proposals) which will help ast winter we published proposals for a Local List of promote good planning in the town. buildings of historical or architectural interest. We Lare very pleased that HDC has adopted the idea and Directory By The Way agreed in principle to setting up such a list for Horsham Frank Garman’s needed today town. It has put together a consultation draft with a few New members more buildings than we proposed and this has recently The Horsham Society is an independent body supported by members’ Hello and a warm welcome to the following: Mr Hudson, ecently I was given a number of interesting old copies of the West subscriptions, a registered charity (No.268949) and affiliated to the Sussex County Times, been published. Campaign to Protect Rural England. Rusper Road, Horsham; Mr and Mrs Hammonds, Wheatsheaf celebrating various key events, and in It is a member of the English Historic Towns Forum. Close, Horsham; Mr and Mrs Nuttall, Church Lane, Southwater; Ramong them was a 1994 issue containing this photograph of our local The period for consultation is short and comments have Royal Mail staff. The picture itself dates from 1936 and shows PRESIDENT: Dr Annabelle Hughes Mrs Tyler, Ryecroft Drive, Horsham. to be made to HDC by 26 July by emailing Horsham’s postmen marching down the Causeway to St Mary’s for the [email protected]. Please do, if you receive the VICE-PRESIDENTS: memorial service to the late King George V. It was provided by Mrs Newsletter in time, give your support! Oliver Palmer, Rt. Hon. Francis Maude MP, Nigel Friswell Carfax concerts Elsie Vincent of Highlands Avenue, who noted that ‘the smart August will be a busy month on the bandstand, with All Saints’ CHAIRMAN VICE CHAIRMAN contingent of postmen was under the eagle eye of their inspector, the This position Ian Dockreay Concert Band (11am-1pm, Saturday 7th); Dark Starr (11am- late Frank Garman, who was most insistent on the men always having is currently 24 Wimblehurst Road 1pm) and Crawley Accordion Band (2pm-4pm, both on their shoes and badges highly polished and uniforms worn correctly’. Editor’s note vacant. Horsham RH12 2ED Saturday 14th); Horsham Accordion Band (11am-1pm, Saturday Tel: (01403) 241582 21st); New City Jazzmen (11am-1pm) and Copthorne Silver Standing in line one recent Monday morning, in a queue that stretched Hon SECRETARY Band (2pm-4pm, Saturday 28th). to the Post Office door and took me 30 minutes to reach the counter, I ot infrequently people write in, long after a family Hon TREASURER Rod Cuming speculated that the highly disciplined Mr Garman was just what was profile has been published, and provide further Roy Bayliss 3 White Horse Road Personal & Professional Service needed today. I bet he would have sorted things out quick sharp lively. Ninformation or pictures. Descendants of the original 15 Patchings Horsham RH12 4UL subjects, for example, may have picked up a reference Horsham RH13 5HJ Tel: (01403) 268444 from a company established Tel: (01403) 262262 from our on-line catalogue of local history listings, a NEWSLETTER DISTRIBUTION over 30 years correspondence then ensues and the result is that their MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY ORGANISER Pat Gale (Mrs) Kathy Gleeson Business Stationery • Brochures • Leaflets family story is added to, often in the most interesting 46 Bedford Road 13 Millthorpe Road Envelope Printing • Folders • Design • Mailing way. Horsham RH13 5BJ Roffey RH12 4ER Tel: (01403) 253946 Tel: (01403) 210511 Digital Printing in Colour and Black & White This has just happened with the Boyd-Wallis family of Horsham Society website: www.horshamsociety.org All major credit cards accepted Graylands. Henry Boyd-Wallis was one of the early pioneers of diamond mining in what was then the Cape ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION RATES Unit D & Unit 20, Huffwood Trading Estate, Horsham Press Colony who later came to live in the area, and we wrote Individuals: £5 per year Single Pensioner: £3.25 per year Billingshurst, West Sussex, RH14 9UR about him in the November 2004 issue. I was delighted Family Membership: £7.50 per year Family Pensioner: £5 per year E-mail: [email protected] www.horshampress.co.uk Businesses: £10 per year Single Life Membership: £100 to hear from Raine Bryant, a direct descendant, who has Family Life Membership: £150 01403 782776 been kind enough to provide a number of photos from £2.50 postage is added to the above rates for out-of-town members the family album, and we reproduce a selection in this issue. Thanks, Raine! Correspondence relating to the Newsletter and articles for submission should be sent to the Editor, Brian Slyfield, Arun House, Denne Road, Copy date for the October issue (no September dated Cert no. CU-COC-807273-AE Horsham RH12 1JF. Other communications concerning the Society issue, remember) is 3 September. should, in the first place, go to the Hon Secretary. The Newsletter is published monthly, except for August, and opinions in it, whether the © Individual contributors 2010. No material may be reproduced, copied or stored in a Editor’s or contributors’, are not necessarily the policy of the Society retrieval system without the prior consent of the relevant contributor, which should be sought via the Editor. OUR CONCERN IS THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE OF THE TOWN 58 The Horsham Society Newsletter August 2010 The Horsham Society Newsletter August 2010 63

From the Committee Letters to the Editor Do please write in: letters for publication to West Grinstead House was erected by its Voting in secret Society response to west of it can only be achieved by a variety of However the decision between restoration Brian Slyfield, Arun House, Denne Road, late venerated owner, Walter Burrell, designers as any conservation area will and replacement can be a source of grief Horsham RH12 1JF. n the June issue we wrote about the Horsham outline planning Esq, in 1806. It is a castellated mansion show. particularly where planning and building in the gothic style, standing on rather rough and tumble of Horsham’s 1847 application control legislation are involved. Restoration elevated ground, surrounded by a park of Ielection, and in a later discussion with a The local character itself is greatly valued may be preferable when the result can match West Grinstead Park considerable extent, pleasingly undulated, Society member I was reminded that up he following is the text of the Society’s but, so far as it can exist today, it is not just the existing although sadly, under our and remarkably well wooded, embracing until 1872 there was no such thing as response, addressed to the Head of a matter of appearance but reflects, and is and Pope’s Oak present system, VAT will be payable. fine views of the South Downs to the voting in private. So it is worth noting Development Control at HDC: determined by, the availability of materials n the last page of your excellent July T south ..... Among other very fine and that in the Town Hall of 1847 there was and methods of construction which, like Replacement gets a bit more complicated – issue you reproduce from Hors- no way of keeping one’s intentions to I write on behalf of the Horsham Society to ancient oaks in West Grinstead Park, is occupiers’ requirements, are changing over in theory the law does not have anything to Ofield’s History ... a print of the long- oneself – which must have had an effect object to the above (DC/09/2138 LAND TO one under which, according to tradition, time and must be allowed to change in say where the new work matches the demolished West Grinstead Park. Having on the weaker vessels among our locals, THE EAST OF THE A24). The Society notes Pope delighted to sit, when visiting Mr design. existing like-for-like, but there may be just visited the Horace Walpole exhi- those most easily intimidated, whether that the purpose of this outline application is Caryll, at the period when he wrote the exceptions. Take windows as an example. bition at the V&A I was struck by its Pinks or Blues. But things changed with to establish the principles of the The difficulties we face in accepting changes Rape of the Lock. Even if they would be identical they are passing resemblance to Horace Walpole’s the Ballot Act of 1872, when voting in development of some 48 hectares of land to in design today bear a striking resemblance subject to the building regulations and it is Strawberry Hill on the bank of the Thames The story behind the poem goes as Britain was for the first time made the east of the A24 including the building of to the difficulties in accepting the changes also possible that the materials available at Twickenham. And then I remembered follows: It was written for John Caryll secret. up to 1044 dwellings and miscellaneous which faced the furniture industry in the today will not match the existing and so that Alexander Pope (1688-1744) is (supposedly descended from the works. 1960s and eventually brought about a would be subject to listed buildings consent, supposed to have composed The Rape of O’Carrolls of Ireland and part of a family revolution in furniture design. Housing although there is some consolation – VAT is the Lock (first published in 1712) while of Sussex iron masters) following a Derelict building by The development is subject to the developers say they adopt traditional not payable on work covered by a consent. sitting under a large oak tree in West quarrel between two Catholic families Masterplan and to Design Principles based designs because planning authorities require cricket field Grinstead Park. Pope’s own house, in- who were friends of his. Young Lord on the related Supplementary Planning them and they sell. Buyers say they buy them Replacement windows (and external doors) n the last issue we noted our concern variably referred to as a ‘villa’, was very Petrie had cut off a lock of hair belonging Documents with their references to because they have no choice and both parties have problems all of their own – the planners regarding this building. The council close to Strawberry Hill at Twickenham. to society beauty Arabella Fermour, character areas, to local features and share a concern that existing properties will probably say that the new windows has been approached, and the following (In one of his letters Walpole jokes about which created a serious rift between the I vernacular designs but without excluding could be devalued by advances in design. should match the old, but building control reply has been received from Ray Lee, the ghost of Pope passing by beneath his two sides. Caryll thought a light hearted the possibility of forward looking designs, may say no, they should be double glazed HDC Director of Development and window.) poem would calm things down and and the Society notes that this is a greenfield Reasonably enough the lack of experience of for energy conservation purposes. Large Environment: restore some much needed perspective, site without an established context. The forward looking designs raises the question pane sliding sashes may not be a problem – The mind races ahead in the hope that but in the event Arabella took further development is to be of a high standard and what advances might we expect and good the frames may take the thicker double here lies some as yet undiscovered Horsham District Council owns the offence and its author became the target it falls into two main aspects – the layout of examples, which are hard to find, will vary – glazing units. Side hung casement windows nugget of history! Could Horace Walpole freehold to the cricket ground. However it of her disapproval as well. the site and the design of the buildings. but one example is attached from an area with small panes may be a different matter have also been familiar with West Grin- is leased to the cricket club. The lease which shares much the same history as the includes the groundsman’s house and and, if the windows have leaded lights, it is stead Park and did its design influence his Lastly, one final connection. Bernard Layout of the site – the position of the Horsham district. bungalow and it contains a repairing another story altogether. This will be own elaborate plans for Strawberry Hill? Lintott came from nearby Southwater and principle access to the site has been clause for these properties. We are particularly important where some windows It’s a nice idea, but almost certainly pure was the publisher of Pope’s early work, determined by the masterplan; thereafter Our future prosperity lies in our buildings currently in discussion with the club to can be kept and only some replaced. fantasy! There’s no discovered link and including The Rape of the Lock. Poet and modern design practice requires the being judged not as objects but for the consider further their responsibilities the dates don’t work out. The only known publisher knew each other in London, developer to distinguish between traffic-only contribution they will make to our environ- with this clause. The council’s estates Fortunately there is always the possibility fact is that Pope and Walpole both once and it could well be that they met up routes and spaces to be shared by drivers, ment and the lives of our community. It is for that energy can be conserved in other ways. department is undertaking an updated lived at Twickenham, and that’s no big locally as well, if they happened to be cyclists and walkers. the sake of these future generations that the One is to compensate with a higher standard assessment of the condition of the deal. Ah well, back to the drawing board! down in the Horsham countryside at the Society attaches so much importance to high insulation somewhere else. Another is to fix properties and early indications suggest same time, perhaps as Caryll’s guests. BS The Society is satisfied that, subject to standards of design. ‘secondary’ glazing – separate sliding John Snelling that they require significant structural certain points of detail, this distinction will windows without frames – inside the Warnham Road, Horsham repair including new roofs, extra be made and will provide the opportunity to Oliver Palmer, Vice-President, existing windows (these are better than supports and a damp proof membrane. develop a hierarchy of streets of a higher The Horsham Society double glazing at keeping out the noise of John: Horsfield’s text, to accompany the Considerable additional work will also density balanced by areas of a lower density traffic). engraving, goes as follows: ... the Catholic have to be undertaken to meet more with significant ‘managed’ open spaces family of Caryll .... resided in a capital stringent building regulations. which will avoid the monotonous spread of That said, building control has been told not mansion house, situate on the south-west development which has been a feature of so Restoration, replacement and to insist on double glazing as it is simply not of the modern elegant edifice. A view of We have met recently with the club to much of the recent undistinguished growth of other matters acceptable to see oversize sections (let alone the old West Grinstead House we give; discuss its future aspirations and it is in Horsham and elsewhere. plastic frames) in order to accommodate for this we are indebted to the liberality the very early stages of exploring a range s a follow up to the feature last month double glazing. Nor are false ‘glazing bars’ of Sir Charles Merrik Burrell, Bart. of options. Unfortunately I cannot give on window frames, Oliver Palmer has Design of the buildings – this is or ‘leaded lights’ stuck on between the leaves you any specific timescales at this time contributed the following: considerably less satisfactory. There is no A acceptable. They simply lack the distinctive The manor and demesne were purchased but can reassure you that the council is attempt at forward looking design. Instead When it comes to looking after our heritage liveliness of historic hand-blown glass. in 1750, of John (created by James II, ‘dock’ not ‘doul’ seeking to agree a plan with the cricket there is a total dependence on vernacular then, as Ruskin wrote many years ago, there when an exile in France) Lord Caryll, by club as quickly as possible. designs which may reflect a curious is no reason to neglect buildings first before Tailpiece – we must be thankful that we are Sir Merrik Burrell, Bart. Sir Merrik left ue to a transcription error, Sylvia requirement for ‘character areas’. The restoring them. However there will still be not in New Zealand, where it is possible to this property, with considerable landed Standing’s interesting recipe in the This seems a less than satisfactory Society shares the wish to avoid monotony times when something has to be done and find three kinds of historic glass in one additions, together amounting to 1,670 Dlast issue should have featured the position. Why have the council and club but, as it has been made clear from the the choice made between restoration window – leaded lights at the top because acres, since increased by various purch- essential ingredient of yellow dock, not let things slide for so long? Why can’t the outset, this cannot be contrived by (retention with repair) and replacement. small offcuts of glass were cheap, plain glass ases, to his niece, Mrs Isabella Wyatt, a yellow doul. So apologies to the (no council, as the landlord, get a grip on the abitrarily recreating a variety of designs in the middle to let people see out and maiden lady, for life, with remainder to doubt) many of you, whose attempts to club and make it get on with the repairs drawing on historical models, local or A light touch is always best and some photos patterned glass at the bottom to stop people Walter Burrell, Esq, second surviving son recreate Sylvia’s pudding didn’t quite asap? We will continue to report on otherwise. The motivation is understood but ‘before and after’ always a good idea. seeing in. of Sir William Burrell, Bart. work out. Blame it on the editor. developments. 62 The Horsham Society Newsletter August 2010 The Horsham Society Newsletter August 2010 59

Review: Sussex Clergy Inventories 1600-1750 by Annabelle Hughes Scenes from the Boyd-Wallis family album iven that we feature one of Horsham’s 18th century vicars in a vicarage which was closer to St Mary’s than today’s this month, it also makes sense to take note of the recent building. The inventory is wonderfully detailed, with a wealth of enry Boyd-Wallis lived at Graylands from 1894 until his Gpublication of Sussex Clergy Inventories 1600-1750 by listed items running to over four pages. His will was proved on death in 1908, and his wife Edith lived on at their Langhurst Annabelle Hughes, as Volume 91 in the Sussex Record Society 2 August 1642, with a high value of £473 18s 5d. Hhouse for some time after. These splendid family pictures, kindly series. This society does much good work in publishing supplied by Raine Bryant, take us right back to those late important source material relating to the county, which might The books in his study were priced at £80, a substantial sum and Victorian/Edwardian days – a world far away from ours today. otherwise be difficult to obtain, and Annabelle’s work is such an the highest on the list apart from cash. The inventory that follows example. takes us on a tour of his house, starting with the ‘Parlor’ (‘one old armd chayre of cloth of One of the society’s publications of silver and 2 lowe stooles of the same’, particular local interest is its then to the ‘Hall’ (‘Seaven Cushions transcription of the town’s registers of 2 lowe matched chaires and 2 little baptisms, marriages and burials: stooles with needlework’), the Horsham Parish Register 1541-1635 ‘kitchin’ (‘A furnace to brue in’, ‘An (Volume 21), a most useful weapon in iron jacke with weights’, two pairs of any local researcher’s armoury, which pothangers two pairs of pothooks contains material that is often hard to two iron potts two iron kettles and read in the original microfilm version a birding peice’ and – perhaps available at our library. Many other of surprisingly – ‘A muskett a rest The Boyd-Wallis boys. Percy (left), Duncan, Gordon, Bertram and Harry. the society’s publications are pretty Bandelerrs a sword with a head- esoteric, and not for those with just a piece’) and so on to the ‘Saddle general interest in the past, but these House’ the ‘bake house’, the ‘Hen house’ ‘Little Buttery’ ‘Great clergy inventories now published are , the and The Graylands donkey also pulled the lawn mower wearing leather shoes. often fascinating, and as the dust Buttery’. jacket says, ‘provide wonderful snapshots of contemporary life Much of the detail puts us in mind of through material possessions’. They a farming establishment, rather than a give a picture of the lifestyle of our vicarage, with precise notes taken of ministers as seen through their goods ‘Five flitches of Bacon’, ‘Wheate about and chattels, which are often itemised 40 Bushells and hay about 6 Loads’, room by room – enabling the reader ‘five yokes for oxen three oxes to build up a picture of what the chaynes and an iron Chappe...’ and interior of a clergyman’s house might ‘In the Gates’ no less than ‘Fower have been like and the context in hoggs tenne Ducks and a Drake one One of the Boyd-Wallis cars. which his possessions were to be black mare 4 kine and 4 oxen’. found. There are other interesting inventories from Billingshurst, A detailed inventory of just one Horsham vicar is included: John Nuthurst, Rudgwick, Rusper, Shipley, Slinfold, Thakeham and Collins, who according to the book was vicar here from 1608- Warnham, out of the 181 contained in the book, and to obtain a 1642 (although Winbolt in his History of The Parish Church ... copy contact the Sussex Record Society at Barbican House, High The drawing room at Graylands. gives a Samuel Collins from 1608-1611, followed by John Street, Lewes BN7 1YE or your local bookseller (ISBN 978-0- Collins – but perhaps he was wrong) and he would have resided 85445-073-2. Price £20). BS

A Graylands wedding: Evelyn Boyd-Wallis and Henry Havers.

Henry Boyd-Wallis (left), his wife Edith, Rose Havers, Evelyn Havers with baby Dick, and Two more motors from the Graylands garage. her husband Henry Havers. Graylands. 60 The Horsham Society Newsletter August 2010 The Horsham Society Newsletter August 2010 61

empire a thousand miles from Greece, with half their leaders arrested by the Rev Thomas Hutchinson: from Greek to Latin – to a best seller Persians, and how Xenophon took charge and brought them safely home over rivers and mountains, through a terrible winter and equally terrible by Brian Slyfield barbarian foes’.

hen I was at Collyer’s back in the 1950s there were two masters, each responsible for the writing of a good solid book. Firstly Xenophon was a great admirer of Cyrus, despite the total failure of the there was Austin Willson, head of history, who was the author of A History of Collyer’s School 1532-1964, an excellent and well- latter’s military initiative, and in his other work, The Education of Cyrus, Wmarshalled survey of our fine old establishment. Secondly there was ‘Frog’ Kenyon, head of languages – and enduring testimony to which takes as its hero another Cyrus – the founder of the Persian empire the (lack of) sophistication of schoolboy wit – who was responsible for Le Francais Vivant, a blue-bound French language text book. – the author forms a number of parallels in terms of personality between the two men. There are no prizes for guessing which was the most interesting read, and certainly none for working out which sold most. But for But enough of the distant past: let’s now return to the relatively modern life those in doubt, the answers are first Willson, and second Kenyon. While the Collyer’s history probably shifted a few hundred copies and times of Thomas Hutchinson. What else do we know about him? Well, at most, the grammar sold by the spadeful, and ran to many editions. Once a book becomes recognised as a standard text there is no he was a fine preacher, for a start. By all accounts he performed well in the stopping it. Horsham pulpit, and contemporary comment by Sarah Hurst (from the family that once owned Horsham Park) in a diary that she kept noted the It was ever thus. Some 250 years ago another Horsham author achieved a similar feat as Kenyon’s, this time with the classics, and with excellence of his sermons, although she thought one ‘too political’ for a two books, each of which ran to many editions and between them lasted something like 100 years in print. But this time the author was country congregation. One suspects that Hutchinson was a rather grand a man of the cloth, and not a schoolmaster. His name was Thomas Hutchinson, and he was vicar of Horsham from 1742 until his death figure. After all, he was a scholar with a national reputation, and more than in 1769. one of his sermons had appeared in print. His work on demoniacal possession had attracted much attention as well, causing others to publish Thomas was the son of a Durham man, Peter Hutchinson, and was baptised in the parish of Bishop’s Middleham on 17 May 1698. He vigorous counter-views, and he could fairly lay claim to be as well known showed early academic promise, and took his first degree at Lincoln College, Oxford, in 1718, at the age of nineteen. He was appointed as his namesake and contemporary John Hutchinson, a popular and rector of Lyndon, in Rutland, in 1731, and later while at Horsham it was said that he also acted as rector of Cocking, and he occupied amusing religious eccentric and anti-Newtonian of the time. a prebendal stall in Chichester cathedral. In his capacity as vicar Thomas Hutchinson also sat as a governor of His claim to fame rests on two important works: the translation from Greek to Latin of Xenophon’s The Education of Cyrus (known Collyer’s Grammar School, and as such became embroiled in, or rather as The Cyropaedia) and The Persian Expedition (The Anabasis). We are accustomed to think that pupils of an earlier age were steeped helped to instigate, a long running dispute with the Mercer’s Company (the in the classics – and so they were, compared with today’s – but it is perhaps comforting to note that reading directly from the Greek school’s trustees), which was to rumble on for almost ten years. Accused by still seemed to have been beyond the reach of the average 14 year-old of the time, hence the need for a Latin translation of Xenophon’s the latter of charging pupils to attend the free school, and allowing its histories. Latin, of course, was a language every young scholar was familiar with. complement to slip below sixty, he swiftly counter-attacked by accusing the Company of not doing enough to provide for the upkeep of Horsham’s A page from The Education of Cyrus, with graffiti by or about Hutchinson first published The Education of Cyrus in 1727, and The Persian Expedition in 1735, seven years before he arrived in Limping Scudder, Joseph Kirk and Lucifer Rodgers. local roads, which he saw as being their duty. These issues were batted to Can anyone make out the comment on Scudder? Horsham, and this spell of publishing energy took place in his early-to-mid thirties. The Education of Cyrus appeared in a number of and fro for some time, and as ever, the only winners were the lawyers. editions, both in England and Scotland, until at least 1812 (for example there was an 11th edition in 1808) and The Persian Expedition was still appearing in new editions up to 1831. His work also appeared in America, and the first edition of The Cyropaedia appeared He may have been a formidable man, but his home life was not quite as orderly as it might have been. He may indeed have laid down across the Atlantic in 1806. All in all there must have been something like thirty editions of Hutchinson’s translations between 1727- the law from the pulpit, and his understanding of the classics may have been beyond reproach – but he did have trouble with his 1831. daughter. Catherine Hutchinson (one of five children, and named after her mother), according to Sarah Hurst went ‘raving mad’ for love of a certain Will White, who was the son of Lord Irwin’s steward over at Hill’s (a grand house which used to stand on today’s At this point a brief note on Xenophon Guildford Road). To avoid any further contact with this fellow, described as nothing more than ‘quite a sheepish Dolt’, young might be in order. He was born into a Catherine, the wild child of the family (‘mad & unaccountable’), was sent away, and before too long made a more settled move by well-to-do Athenian family in the early marrying William Vallance, a grandson of the rector of Southwick. Many years later, as a widow, and after the death of her father, 430s BC, just after the start of the Catherine returned to Horsham, and the family connection with Collyer’s was renewed by her daughter marrying James Thornton, Peloponnesian War – that famous school usher from 1801-1808. conflict between Athens and Sparta. He was a contemporary of Plato, and both Some time go I obtained a copy of each of Hutchinson’s translations from book dealers in the USA, through the far-reaching power of were pupils of Socrates (what a heady the internet (these days a collector’s best friend). The Education of Cyrus was a 1765 English edition, and The Persian Expedition an cluster). Athens was a democracy, and 1817 Glasgow edition, which had been presented to a certain Oliver Shaw, a student at Yale. But of the two books the former seemed Sparta a monarchy, and Xenophon to have the more interesting history. Who knows how it had found its way from the Old World to the New – but it was not in the best espoused the latter system, so when of shape. While the leather binding was pretty sound, the text was liberally splashed with a variety of old inks, and a good few Athens finally prevailed over Sparta he annotations filled the margins. But I would not change it for a pristine copy, for all the world. What gives it particular charm is the fact had to leave the city of his birth. He that it is an interesting and rare survival from a classroom of over 200 years ago. One only has to turn the pages to get a feel for the then joined an expedition headed by succession of young scholars whose hands it had gone through, some of whose pens had scrawled their names repeatedly on its fly Cyrus, the younger brother of leaves, with a teenage self-absorption that we would recognise today. The boredom of an eighteenth century classics lesson sings out Artaxerxes the Second, King of Persia, loud from the book’s dusty pages. the covert purpose of which was to overthrow the latter. However Cyrus The only difference between graffiti then and now is that in those days of quill pen and ink it was executed in the finest copperplate, failed in his attempt, and was killed at whereas today an utilitarian biro scrawl is the way of doing things. George Vellers Vernon seems to have been the original possessor the Battle of Cunaxa. of the book, given that his name occupies prime position on the title page, and William Vernon’s (a brother?), is written in elsewhere. But the signature of John Blair dominates, and in a variety of experimental scripts. And who, one wonders, are Charles Colhoun, and Xenophon was then appointed Joseph Kirk of Derby? So far I have been unable to trace any of them. Finally, just what did Lucifer Rodgers do to earn his nickname, commander of Cyrus’ retreating army, and as for poor Limping Scudder..... and The Persian Expedition is a vivid account, as the Penguin translation puts This is a book that has been thrown about the classroom, dumped into satchels, cracked over heads and pored over by candle light. It it, of how ‘ten thousand Greeks found has been passed down from scholar to scholar, and has survived to tell the tale. Hutchinson’s volume, full of character, is bloodied, but themselves in the heart of the Persian very much unbowed – and at long last it has found a safe haven here in Horsham, just a stone’s throw from the home of its author. The Persian Expedition. The Education of Cyrus. 60 The Horsham Society Newsletter August 2010 The Horsham Society Newsletter August 2010 61

hen I was at Collyer’s back in the 1950s there were two masters, each responsible for the writing of a good solid book. Firstly Xenophon was a great admirer of Cyrus, despite the total failure of the there was Austin Willson, head of history, who was the author of A History of Collyer’s School 1532-1964, an excellent and well- latter’s military initiative, and in his other work, The Education of Cyrus, Wmarshalled survey of our fine old establishment. Secondly there was ‘Frog’ Kenyon, head of languages – and enduring testimony to which takes as its hero another Cyrus – the founder of the Persian empire the (lack of) sophistication of schoolboy wit – who was responsible for Le Francais Vivant, a blue-bound French language text book. – the author forms a number of parallels in terms of personality between the two men. There are no prizes for guessing which was the most interesting read, and certainly none for working out which sold most. But for But enough of the distant past: let’s now return to the relatively modern life those in doubt, the answers are first Willson, and second Kenyon. While the Collyer’s history probably shifted a few hundred copies and times of Thomas Hutchinson. What else do we know about him? Well, at most, the grammar sold by the spadeful, and ran to many editions. Once a book becomes recognised as a standard text there is no he was a fine preacher, for a start. By all accounts he performed well in the stopping it. Horsham pulpit, and contemporary comment by Sarah Hurst (from the family that once owned Horsham Park) in a diary that she kept noted the It was ever thus. Some 250 years ago another Horsham author achieved a similar feat as Kenyon’s, this time with the classics, and with excellence of his sermons, although she thought one ‘too political’ for a two books, each of which ran to many editions and between them lasted something like 100 years in print. But this time the author was country congregation. One suspects that Hutchinson was a rather grand a man of the cloth, and not a schoolmaster. His name was Thomas Hutchinson, and he was vicar of Horsham from 1742 until his death figure. After all, he was a scholar with a national reputation, and more than in 1769. one of his sermons had appeared in print. His work on demoniacal possession had attracted much attention as well, causing others to publish Thomas was the son of a Durham man, Peter Hutchinson, and was baptised in the parish of Bishop’s Middleham on 17 May 1698. He vigorous counter-views, and he could fairly lay claim to be as well known showed early academic promise, and took his first degree at Lincoln College, Oxford, in 1718, at the age of nineteen. He was appointed as his namesake and contemporary John Hutchinson, a popular and rector of Lyndon, in Rutland, in 1731, and later while at Horsham it was said that he also acted as rector of Cocking, and he occupied amusing religious eccentric and anti-Newtonian of the time. a prebendal stall in Chichester cathedral. In his capacity as vicar Thomas Hutchinson also sat as a governor of His claim to fame rests on two important works: the translation from Greek to Latin of Xenophon’s The Education of Cyrus (known Collyer’s Grammar School, and as such became embroiled in, or rather as The Cyropaedia) and The Persian Expedition (The Anabasis). We are accustomed to think that pupils of an earlier age were steeped helped to instigate, a long running dispute with the Mercer’s Company (the in the classics – and so they were, compared with today’s – but it is perhaps comforting to note that reading directly from the Greek school’s trustees), which was to rumble on for almost ten years. Accused by still seemed to have been beyond the reach of the average 14 year-old of the time, hence the need for a Latin translation of Xenophon’s the latter of charging pupils to attend the free school, and allowing its histories. Latin, of course, was a language every young scholar was familiar with. complement to slip below sixty, he swiftly counter-attacked by accusing the Company of not doing enough to provide for the upkeep of Horsham’s A page from The Education of Cyrus, with graffiti by or about Hutchinson first published The Education of Cyrus in 1727, and The Persian Expedition in 1735, seven years before he arrived in Limping Scudder, Joseph Kirk and Lucifer Rodgers. local roads, which he saw as being their duty. These issues were batted to Can anyone make out the comment on Scudder? Horsham, and this spell of publishing energy took place in his early-to-mid thirties. The Education of Cyrus appeared in a number of and fro for some time, and as ever, the only winners were the lawyers. editions, both in England and Scotland, until at least 1812 (for example there was an 11th edition in 1808) and The Persian Expedition was still appearing in new editions up to 1831. His work also appeared in America, and the first edition of The Cyropaedia appeared He may have been a formidable man, but his home life was not quite as orderly as it might have been. He may indeed have laid down across the Atlantic in 1806. All in all there must have been something like thirty editions of Hutchinson’s translations between 1727- the law from the pulpit, and his understanding of the classics may have been beyond reproach – but he did have trouble with his 1831. daughter. Catherine Hutchinson (one of five children, and named after her mother), according to Sarah Hurst went ‘raving mad’ for love of a certain Will White, who was the son of Lord Irwin’s steward over at Hill’s (a grand house which used to stand on today’s At this point a brief note on Xenophon Guildford Road). To avoid any further contact with this fellow, described as nothing more than ‘quite a sheepish Dolt’, young might be in order. He was born into a Catherine, the wild child of the family (‘mad & unaccountable’), was sent away, and before too long made a more settled move by well-to-do Athenian family in the early marrying William Vallance, a grandson of the rector of Southwick. Many years later, as a widow, and after the death of her father, 430s BC, just after the start of the Catherine returned to Horsham, and the family connection with Collyer’s was renewed by her daughter marrying James Thornton, Peloponnesian War – that famous school usher from 1801-1808. conflict between Athens and Sparta. He was a contemporary of Plato, and both Some time go I obtained a copy of each of Hutchinson’s translations from book dealers in the USA, through the far-reaching power of were pupils of Socrates (what a heady the internet (these days a collector’s best friend). The Education of Cyrus was a 1765 English edition, and The Persian Expedition an cluster). Athens was a democracy, and 1817 Glasgow edition, which had been presented to a certain Oliver Shaw, a student at Yale. But of the two books the former seemed Sparta a monarchy, and Xenophon to have the more interesting history. Who knows how it had found its way from the Old World to the New – but it was not in the best espoused the latter system, so when of shape. While the leather binding was pretty sound, the text was liberally splashed with a variety of old inks, and a good few Athens finally prevailed over Sparta he annotations filled the margins. But I would not change it for a pristine copy, for all the world. What gives it particular charm is the fact had to leave the city of his birth. He that it is an interesting and rare survival from a classroom of over 200 years ago. One only has to turn the pages to get a feel for the then joined an expedition headed by succession of young scholars whose hands it had gone through, some of whose pens had scrawled their names repeatedly on its fly Cyrus, the younger brother of leaves, with a teenage self-absorption that we would recognise today. The boredom of an eighteenth century classics lesson sings out Artaxerxes the Second, King of Persia, loud from the book’s dusty pages. the covert purpose of which was to overthrow the latter. However Cyrus The only difference between graffiti then and now is that in those days of quill pen and ink it was executed in the finest copperplate, failed in his attempt, and was killed at whereas today an utilitarian biro scrawl is the way of doing things. George Vellers Vernon seems to have been the original possessor the Battle of Cunaxa. of the book, given that his name occupies prime position on the title page, and William Vernon’s (a brother?), is written in elsewhere. But the signature of John Blair dominates, and in a variety of experimental scripts. And who, one wonders, are Charles Colhoun, and Xenophon was then appointed Joseph Kirk of Derby? So far I have been unable to trace any of them. Finally, just what did Lucifer Rodgers do to earn his nickname, commander of Cyrus’ retreating army, and as for poor Limping Scudder..... and The Persian Expedition is a vivid account, as the Penguin translation puts This is a book that has been thrown about the classroom, dumped into satchels, cracked over heads and pored over by candle light. It it, of how ‘ten thousand Greeks found has been passed down from scholar to scholar, and has survived to tell the tale. Hutchinson’s volume, full of character, is bloodied, but themselves in the heart of the Persian very much unbowed – and at long last it has found a safe haven here in Horsham, just a stone’s throw from the home of its author. The Persian Expedition. The Education of Cyrus. 62 The Horsham Society Newsletter August 2010 The Horsham Society Newsletter August 2010 59

A Graylands wedding: Evelyn Boyd-Wallis and Henry Havers.

Henry Boyd-Wallis (left), his wife Edith, Rose Havers, Evelyn Havers with baby Dick, and Two more motors from the Graylands garage. her husband Henry Havers. Graylands. 58 The Horsham Society Newsletter August 2010 The Horsham Society Newsletter August 2010 63

From the Committee Letters to the Editor Do please write in: letters for publication to West Grinstead House was erected by its Voting in secret Society response to west of it can only be achieved by a variety of However the decision between restoration Brian Slyfield, Arun House, Denne Road, late venerated owner, Walter Burrell, designers as any conservation area will and replacement can be a source of grief Horsham RH12 1JF. n the June issue we wrote about the Horsham outline planning Esq, in 1806. It is a castellated mansion show. particularly where planning and building in the gothic style, standing on rather rough and tumble of Horsham’s 1847 application control legislation are involved. Restoration elevated ground, surrounded by a park of Ielection, and in a later discussion with a The local character itself is greatly valued may be preferable when the result can match West Grinstead Park considerable extent, pleasingly undulated, Society member I was reminded that up he following is the text of the Society’s but, so far as it can exist today, it is not just the existing although sadly, under our and remarkably well wooded, embracing until 1872 there was no such thing as response, addressed to the Head of a matter of appearance but reflects, and is and Pope’s Oak present system, VAT will be payable. fine views of the South Downs to the voting in private. So it is worth noting Development Control at HDC: determined by, the availability of materials n the last page of your excellent July T south ..... Among other very fine and that in the Town Hall of 1847 there was and methods of construction which, like Replacement gets a bit more complicated – issue you reproduce from Hors- no way of keeping one’s intentions to I write on behalf of the Horsham Society to ancient oaks in West Grinstead Park, is occupiers’ requirements, are changing over in theory the law does not have anything to Ofield’s History ... a print of the long- oneself – which must have had an effect object to the above (DC/09/2138 LAND TO one under which, according to tradition, time and must be allowed to change in say where the new work matches the demolished West Grinstead Park. Having on the weaker vessels among our locals, THE EAST OF THE A24). The Society notes Pope delighted to sit, when visiting Mr design. existing like-for-like, but there may be just visited the Horace Walpole exhi- those most easily intimidated, whether that the purpose of this outline application is Caryll, at the period when he wrote the exceptions. Take windows as an example. bition at the V&A I was struck by its Pinks or Blues. But things changed with to establish the principles of the The difficulties we face in accepting changes Rape of the Lock. Even if they would be identical they are passing resemblance to Horace Walpole’s the Ballot Act of 1872, when voting in development of some 48 hectares of land to in design today bear a striking resemblance subject to the building regulations and it is Strawberry Hill on the bank of the Thames The story behind the poem goes as Britain was for the first time made the east of the A24 including the building of to the difficulties in accepting the changes also possible that the materials available at Twickenham. And then I remembered follows: It was written for John Caryll secret. up to 1044 dwellings and miscellaneous which faced the furniture industry in the today will not match the existing and so that Alexander Pope (1688-1744) is (supposedly descended from the works. 1960s and eventually brought about a would be subject to listed buildings consent, supposed to have composed The Rape of O’Carrolls of Ireland and part of a family revolution in furniture design. Housing although there is some consolation – VAT is the Lock (first published in 1712) while of Sussex iron masters) following a Derelict building by The development is subject to the developers say they adopt traditional not payable on work covered by a consent. sitting under a large oak tree in West quarrel between two Catholic families Masterplan and to Design Principles based designs because planning authorities require cricket field Grinstead Park. Pope’s own house, in- who were friends of his. Young Lord on the related Supplementary Planning them and they sell. Buyers say they buy them Replacement windows (and external doors) n the last issue we noted our concern variably referred to as a ‘villa’, was very Petrie had cut off a lock of hair belonging Documents with their references to because they have no choice and both parties have problems all of their own – the planners regarding this building. The council close to Strawberry Hill at Twickenham. to society beauty Arabella Fermour, character areas, to local features and share a concern that existing properties will probably say that the new windows has been approached, and the following (In one of his letters Walpole jokes about which created a serious rift between the I vernacular designs but without excluding could be devalued by advances in design. should match the old, but building control reply has been received from Ray Lee, the ghost of Pope passing by beneath his two sides. Caryll thought a light hearted the possibility of forward looking designs, may say no, they should be double glazed HDC Director of Development and window.) poem would calm things down and and the Society notes that this is a greenfield Reasonably enough the lack of experience of for energy conservation purposes. Large Environment: restore some much needed perspective, site without an established context. The forward looking designs raises the question pane sliding sashes may not be a problem – The mind races ahead in the hope that but in the event Arabella took further development is to be of a high standard and what advances might we expect and good the frames may take the thicker double here lies some as yet undiscovered Horsham District Council owns the offence and its author became the target it falls into two main aspects – the layout of examples, which are hard to find, will vary – glazing units. Side hung casement windows nugget of history! Could Horace Walpole freehold to the cricket ground. However it of her disapproval as well. the site and the design of the buildings. but one example is attached from an area with small panes may be a different matter have also been familiar with West Grin- is leased to the cricket club. The lease which shares much the same history as the includes the groundsman’s house and and, if the windows have leaded lights, it is stead Park and did its design influence his Lastly, one final connection. Bernard Layout of the site – the position of the Horsham district. bungalow and it contains a repairing another story altogether. This will be own elaborate plans for Strawberry Hill? Lintott came from nearby Southwater and principle access to the site has been clause for these properties. We are particularly important where some windows It’s a nice idea, but almost certainly pure was the publisher of Pope’s early work, determined by the masterplan; thereafter Our future prosperity lies in our buildings currently in discussion with the club to can be kept and only some replaced. fantasy! There’s no discovered link and including The Rape of the Lock. Poet and modern design practice requires the being judged not as objects but for the consider further their responsibilities the dates don’t work out. The only known publisher knew each other in London, developer to distinguish between traffic-only contribution they will make to our environ- with this clause. The council’s estates Fortunately there is always the possibility fact is that Pope and Walpole both once and it could well be that they met up routes and spaces to be shared by drivers, ment and the lives of our community. It is for that energy can be conserved in other ways. department is undertaking an updated lived at Twickenham, and that’s no big locally as well, if they happened to be cyclists and walkers. the sake of these future generations that the One is to compensate with a higher standard assessment of the condition of the deal. Ah well, back to the drawing board! down in the Horsham countryside at the Society attaches so much importance to high insulation somewhere else. Another is to fix properties and early indications suggest same time, perhaps as Caryll’s guests. BS The Society is satisfied that, subject to standards of design. ‘secondary’ glazing – separate sliding John Snelling that they require significant structural certain points of detail, this distinction will windows without frames – inside the Warnham Road, Horsham repair including new roofs, extra be made and will provide the opportunity to Oliver Palmer, Vice-President, existing windows (these are better than supports and a damp proof membrane. develop a hierarchy of streets of a higher The Horsham Society double glazing at keeping out the noise of John: Horsfield’s text, to accompany the Considerable additional work will also density balanced by areas of a lower density traffic). engraving, goes as follows: ... the Catholic have to be undertaken to meet more with significant ‘managed’ open spaces family of Caryll .... resided in a capital stringent building regulations. which will avoid the monotonous spread of That said, building control has been told not mansion house, situate on the south-west development which has been a feature of so Restoration, replacement and to insist on double glazing as it is simply not of the modern elegant edifice. A view of We have met recently with the club to much of the recent undistinguished growth of other matters acceptable to see oversize sections (let alone the old West Grinstead House we give; discuss its future aspirations and it is in Horsham and elsewhere. plastic frames) in order to accommodate for this we are indebted to the liberality the very early stages of exploring a range s a follow up to the feature last month double glazing. Nor are false ‘glazing bars’ of Sir Charles Merrik Burrell, Bart. of options. Unfortunately I cannot give on window frames, Oliver Palmer has Design of the buildings – this is or ‘leaded lights’ stuck on between the leaves you any specific timescales at this time contributed the following: considerably less satisfactory. There is no A acceptable. They simply lack the distinctive The manor and demesne were purchased but can reassure you that the council is attempt at forward looking design. Instead When it comes to looking after our heritage liveliness of historic hand-blown glass. in 1750, of John (created by James II, ‘dock’ not ‘doul’ seeking to agree a plan with the cricket there is a total dependence on vernacular then, as Ruskin wrote many years ago, there when an exile in France) Lord Caryll, by club as quickly as possible. designs which may reflect a curious is no reason to neglect buildings first before Tailpiece – we must be thankful that we are Sir Merrik Burrell, Bart. Sir Merrik left ue to a transcription error, Sylvia requirement for ‘character areas’. The restoring them. However there will still be not in New Zealand, where it is possible to this property, with considerable landed Standing’s interesting recipe in the This seems a less than satisfactory Society shares the wish to avoid monotony times when something has to be done and find three kinds of historic glass in one additions, together amounting to 1,670 Dlast issue should have featured the position. Why have the council and club but, as it has been made clear from the the choice made between restoration window – leaded lights at the top because acres, since increased by various purch- essential ingredient of yellow dock, not let things slide for so long? Why can’t the outset, this cannot be contrived by (retention with repair) and replacement. small offcuts of glass were cheap, plain glass ases, to his niece, Mrs Isabella Wyatt, a yellow doul. So apologies to the (no council, as the landlord, get a grip on the abitrarily recreating a variety of designs in the middle to let people see out and maiden lady, for life, with remainder to doubt) many of you, whose attempts to club and make it get on with the repairs drawing on historical models, local or A light touch is always best and some photos patterned glass at the bottom to stop people Walter Burrell, Esq, second surviving son recreate Sylvia’s pudding didn’t quite asap? We will continue to report on otherwise. The motivation is understood but ‘before and after’ always a good idea. seeing in. of Sir William Burrell, Bart. work out. Blame it on the editor. developments. 64 The Horsham Society Newsletter August 2010 Newsletter August 2010