New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-05-22
STRAWBERRY HILL.
NE ODE .vDcossIp OF AFAMOUsPLACE.

piclures and decorations be RhocAe' Wv"
the auctioneer on May 2l, Is one OF tno7e -
which startle the Old and pass eaS"' u,
the head of the young. Old men, deep III theiF
ace babbe not of green fields, but oil the "oD",i'
four DAYS sale at strawberry Him ISf-'a' w
very Young masher" who has not long JoI"'"
specially "swcn regiments, the GuaiOS' 'N0 -
hold Cavalry or the Rife Brigade is OIL s'"'i
which knows not Joseph and cares little ioi INC
If strawberry Hill III either the Walpo'e OF inc
Cow. reriod Eetween these there was lons Sp"'0
duriug which strawberry Hill was Known ohi' 'o''
f Wainoc's tiers ana the house tseIi Ie" i"'o "
| called in Ireland disrepair" In the MINUS VI Wv
ors mr. NJ no lenen ike him who held hal 'e'S "0'0
ao cxcre,cencc provided by Nature 10 supply gehtc'
,v,,b ready money" family property OF historic anu
i,l renoun WAS not likely to be treated Win any
r. measure Of care or resp ct, and Horace NaP'e'
sham Gothic castle. craumcd with pictures chh@' I'0
and brio abrac came 90 the hammer lusi iorF ohe
ooo when such things weot dOgcheap as conP'c T." WIN
the prices ruling to-day. subsequently great u'''
was bought back again and the Strawberry lil Which
has PLAYED 40 large part in the social ne OF 'he ia7'
twenty years created by Frances Countess ""'uo
grave.
Strawberry Hill 1t stands was b1iit at 'hreo
ssparate periods FIRST by Lord BradiOrds coachnah
second by Horace WalpOe and third by Lazy "alue
crave. The frst-named worthy had managed to save
,oe money it was said by feeding his masters horses
on chopped straw instead Of oats. and built small via
or cottage on the land beyond POpes villa IN the
direction OF Teddington This dwelling was accord
ingly ncknamed by the country people Nnoll'"
Straw Hall" just wellknown cotton I"o
| tory at Blackburn is called even unto thl' ua9'
| "Iatherbox" because It built by DarDcr'
" Chopped straw Hall subsequently ten
anta1 by Colly Clbber, who wrote The Refusal
there and was next occupied by Talbot Bishop OF Dur
ham, who rented it for eight years. Next came the
MARQUIS IF Carnarvon and Lord John Sackvc, and i'm
mcdiaely before Walpoe Mrs Chenevx, the celebrated
| toy-woman In May 1747, Walpoe took 1t Tor seven
years and in the next year bought it by Act OF Par
lament az it belonged to minors The name by which
the house and extensive grounds have since been known
WIS discovered by WapOlo IN an old deed, and AT once
| adopted. It is in a charming situation Oh rising
ground considerably above and at some little distance
| from the River Thames. Wapoe wrote TO Sir Horace
| Mann in a letter dated June 8, 1747, az follows;
Imay retire TO little farm that have taken just
at Iwickenhan Ibe house /. SO small mat can al
deli htfnl as possible commanding the RIVER the ioWn
and Richmond Park; and being situated ON nlil ae
| scends TO the Thames through two or threc httle
| meadows where | have some Turkish s1eep and Two
cows-all studied IL their colors Tor becoming the
view This little rural 60H was Mrs. Cheveni1s 5, the
foy-wolpan Gio niode who in every dry season. Is 10
furnish me the best ranwater from Paris ana now
dcnrc ike wooden classics in nbraryso shall grow
a shepherd any swan in the Astr1a.
Three day later letter addressed to the Hon H. s.
| Conway he wrote
camp and have left my tub at Windsor. 1t is a niue
paVthlug house that got ont OF MIS- thentVlA
and is he pretttst baube you saw. II Is set IN
| eDaneed meadows with hhgree hedges
a small Euphrates through the piece strolrd
And little fnches wave their wings OF goId.
Two delightful roads, that you will call dusty. supply
me continually with coaches and chases barges, as
SYe nn as c aI1g III III and the Ham waks bound my
prospect bat sank Good the Thames Is between me
and The Duchcs, o Queensberry. Dowagers plenty 80
FOUNDERS niast it al round and Popc's ghost Is Just
now under my window by most pootical moonlight.
| Whatever may he said Of dowagers founders are by
hafrtfr
one OF my pet vices, sometimes enjoy day. roach
fishing IN Twickenham dceps, and can socmnly aver
that only once have caught founder But am told
that thirty forty fishing for founders WAS a
regular pursuit between London aud Teddugton Lock.
that is 70 say the end Of the Thames as tidal river
When walpoe was fairly established at strawberry
| Hill. he was beseged by visitors to his new Gothic
Castle or Abbey, lie subsequently termed #. lie
wrote George Montague under date Of May H. 1863,
| as follows:
! strawberry has been in great glory: have given q
sfino that will almost mort II. Last Tuc-ddy all
France dined there: Monsieur aud Madame du Chateet
the Due IaucOuri. three French ladies' whose
names you viii had in the ncoseo paper, eight other
Frcnchmcn the spanish ana Portuguese Ministers. the
Hodcrnc,sc'' me fh%Iols- snort we were ioHi ana
twenty. They arrived 40 >. At the gates OF Tie Castle
received them dressed in c craa o Gibbons carving
and pair OF gloves cmi"ldricd up 10 inc c'nNs lai
belonged to James The French servants t.fed. and
gentlemen. After taking survey % the apartments
We 10 the Printing House, where had prepared
|
| Lille. one Of the company. The moment ihcy were
printed on ! gave a private signal ana J. icnGh horns
went ropes GrottO and the garden. and returned
FOL magnificent dinner ia the rcfectOry I'm the evening
| We walled. bad tea, coffee and lemonade IA the
hacrv which illuminated with thousand cen lies
or thirty forget which and played at whist and loo
til midnight Then tnrTe wa. IA cold supper ana At
the company retained to town, saiued by ily night
ncaes who, OF the MANOR came ~ do honol
| to their lord.
With the exception OF the sale IN 1912 previously
a.. tI.a Il. Q
Of walpoe till it into the possession Of Frances
Countess Waldeaye who built the wing formed the
famous gallery OF beauties and OF tAe centres 81
EEropean society for quarter OF a century. Not To
have asked to Strawberry iin at time a
sign az least that not OF political literary
artistic celebrity Perhaps peerless OF her day enjoyed
a career brilliant as that Of the remarkable woman
who reigncd at strawberry HI through entire social
period, ANA IL addition to being better looking and aI
more am,be quite celebrated the Lady IIol-
land of the preceding generation Frances. Countess
Waldcerayc the daughter of John Brahau, IN bis
day admirable singer, who invested his sdyngs
and lost them III building the II. Jalne>s Theatre III
King st. now the fashionable house leased by Mr. John
Hare ana Mr. Kendall, to which Moneyspnner, "~ The
Squire" and Impulse have succcs-iycly drawn a!
London. Poor Bralan ruined by his specula
tions but MS luck did not impair the destiny Of h'
daughter, who tenderly attached TO him. she wa
the wife OF four husbands. Her first was Mr. John Jane
Wadegra re- Of NavestOck in Essex. This gentleman fel
into difficulties and nursed for time in prison
by his young wife who displayed the greatest tenderness
toward him MI Naldegrave died, however despite hc
care Meanwhile the third Earl Waldegrave, struck 10y
her devotion fallen in love withher He married he
in TO- and dying six years later left her by will very
large property, including strawberry Hill, Dudbrooh
House the Priory Chewton, and to M house at No.
Carlton Gardens. year after bis death she married
Mr. George Granville Harcourt, eldest Of tho then
Archbishop of York, during whose lifetime strawberry
Hill acquired its modern renown and on being again
left a widow she married Mr. Chichester Fortescue, now
Lord Carlingford who survives her. Lady WaldcgraNC
died In July 1879 leaving behind her the reputation
having been the most charming and best-natured
woman the world SO general the esteem and ad
miration she inspired that IT was by unusual