page_title: DoubleTree by Hilton Cheltenham
section_title: Later residents
hierarchical_section_title: DoubleTree by Hilton Cheltenham / Later residents
caption_attribution_description: English: Lilleybrook, Charlton King (now Chltenham Park Hotel) on the first day of the hunt circa 1900.
context_page_description: DoubleTree by Hilton Cheltenham, Charlton Kings, is a Regency building of historical significance. It was previously called Lilleybrook. It stands on the site of an ancient manor which was rebuilt and/or improved in about 1700 and again in 1816. In 1831 it was badly damaged by fire and in 1833 it was again rebuilt. This is the house which stands today. Over the next century it was the home to several notable families and in 1922 opened as a hotel. The building was renovated in 2017 and the hotel subsequently adopted the DoubleTree franchise. The hotel is managed by Michels & Taylor.
context_section_description: When William Dugdale died in 1896 his eldest daughter Mary Ollivant Dugdale (1865-1932) inherited the house. A year earlier in 1895 she had married Herbert Owen Lord and so the property was brought into the Lord family.
  Herbert Owen Lord (1854-1928) was born in 1854 in London. His father was Captain Arthur Owen Lord of 72nd Highlanders. After Mary inherited Lilleybrook in 1896 the couple decided to live there. They had two daughters. Herbert became the Master of the Cotswold Hunt and received numerous accolades in the newspapers for his skill. A picture of the start the hunt at Lilleybrook in about 1900 is shown.
  Mary became President of the Red Cross and held many events at the property to raise funds. A photo of one of these events in 1911 is shown.
  In 1915 she held a special garden party for some of the wounded soldiers that were in the Red Cross hospitals locally. Two of the notable people who attended this event were Cecilia Bowes-Lyons, Countess of Stratmore and Lady Maud Bowes-Lyon, the mother and  aunt of the Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. The papers described the occasion in the following terms.
  "On Tuesday afternoon hundreds of wounded soldiers were to be seen being conveyed towards Charlton Kings and later in the evening the inhabitants of the district were all at their doors and windows watching and cheering the returning warriors. The occasion of this migration was a glorious garden party given with their usual bountiful hospitality by Mr and Mrs Herbert Lord in the beautiful grounds at Lilleybrook to the whole of the wounded soldiers who were sufficiently convalescent to come from all the Red Cross hospitals in the district.
  The number of soldiers present was about 320, guests and nurses making up a total of 400. James’ Band played on the lawn all the afternoon while the soldiers strolled in admiring parties through the beautiful gardens and viewed the Cotswold Hounds who were brought up to the paddock. Then a bountiful tea was spread in a corner of one of the lawns and full justice was done to the good things provided."
  In 1921 the Lord family sold the property and in the following year it opened as a hotel. It still serves this function today.
caption: Opening of the Hunt at Lilleybrook (now Cheltenham Park Hotel) in 1900
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