page_title: Remenham
section_title: Manor
hierarchical_section_title: Remenham / History / Manor
caption_attribution_description: English: View across the River Thames from Remenham, Berkshire to Fawley Court, Buckinghamshire. The country house has its own wide cut linking it with the river.
context_page_description: Remenham is a village and civil parish on the Berkshire bank of the River Thames opposite Henley-on-Thames in southern England.
  It’s particularly well known for the steep approach, known as Remenham Hill or White Hill, into Henley.
context_section_description: The manor has mostly had main landowners, some of whom not only held the estate but also lived in it as one of their main residences, including a medieval Earl of Warwick and Duke of Buckingham, passing for many years down lines of the De Montford family.  Indeed, by the time of his fall from grace and attainder in 1496, it was Simon de Montford who possessed it.
  Possibly Simon de Montfort's widow Anne was the Anne Preston who with her husband John released the manor in 1503 to Richard, Bishop of Winchester and other trustees for Sir Reynold Bray, who was effectively the absolute purchaser with the monarch's consent.  Bray effectively sold or quit in favour of William Norreys whose nephew-in-law, soon to be heir was Sir William Sandys – later created Baron Sandys (de Vyne) who died in 1542.  It remained with the Lords Sandys until 1612–13 when it was conveyed to Sir William Lovelace – later created Lord Lovelace of Hurley.  Later heir John Lord Lovelace in 1693 died heavily in debt, and in 1695 Sir Henry Johnson, executor of him and his wife, daughter of Lord Lovelace and administratrix of Anne and Katherine Lovelace her sisters, were paying off debts due on account of the manor to Sir William Whitlock and others. The heirs of Lord Lovelace eventually parted with the manor, which in 1723 was held by Bulstrode Whitlock of Phyllis Court, Henley.
  Over the course of that and the following year Whitlock passed the manor to Dr Gislingham Cooper.  He sold it about 1760 to the uncle of Strickland Freeman of Fawley Court, lord of the manor in 1813. His heir was William Peere Williams, Admiral of the Fleet (grandson of Mary Freeman, sister of John Cooke Freeman of Fawley Court), who took the name of Freeman on inheriting Fawley Court. He died in 1832. His grandson and heir William Peere Williams Freeman dealt with the manor in 1833 and sold it to Dudley Coutts Marjoribanks – later a baronet. Sir Dudley Coutts Marjoribanks sold it in 1871 to the Right Hon. William Henry Smith, who in 1891 was succeeded by his son Viscount Hambleden of Greenlands, Hambleden, holding until at least 1923.
caption: Fawley Court from Remenham
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