page_title: Cecil Chubb
section_title: Purchase of Stonehenge
hierarchical_section_title: Cecil Chubb / Purchase of Stonehenge
caption_attribution_description: English: An image of the grave of Cecil Chubb on the centenerary of him and his wife, Mary, donating Stonehenge to the nation. The wreath was laid by English Heritage members of staff and volunteers at the Stonehenge site.
context_page_description: Sir Cecil Herbert Edward Chubb, 1st Baronet, was the last private owner of Stonehenge prehistoric monument, Wiltshire, which he donated to the British government in 1918.
context_section_description: Stonehenge was put up for auction in 1915 by the Antrobus family following the death in World War I of the only surviving male heir. Cecil Chubb's interest in the local area led to him attending the sale, with him bidding and purchasing Lot 15 on a whim for £6,600 (about £533,000/€628,000/$697,000 today), as he wished to avoid the stones being acquired by someone overseas. It is also speculated that he bought the stones as a present for his wife, only for her to be less than pleased with his new purchase.
  He gave Stonehenge to the nation on 26 October 1918. The deed of gift included the following conditions:
  First that the public shall have free access to the premises hereby conveyed and every part thereof on the payment of such reasonable sum per head not exceeding one shilling for each visit and subject to such conditions as the Commissioners of Works in the exercise and execution of their statutory powers and duties may from time to time impose Secondly that the premises shall so far as possible be maintained in their present condition Thirdly that no building or erection other than a pay box similar to the Pay Box now standing on the premises shall be erected on any part of the premises within four hundred yards of The Milestone marked "Amesbury 2" on the northern frontage of the premises and Fourthly that the Commissioners of Works will at all times save harmless and keep indemnified the Donors and each of them their and each of their estates and effects from and against all proceedings costs claims and expenses on account of any breach or non-observance of the covenants by the Donors to the like or similar effect contained in the Conveyance of the premises to the Donors.
  Local residents are still entitled to free admission to Stonehenge because of a different agreement concerning the moving of a right of way.
  To mark his generosity he was made a baronet in 1919 by Lloyd George. Chubb's arms feature a trilithon representing Stonehenge.
caption: A temporary image of Chubb's grave in the Devizes Road cemetery, Salisbury, UK showing the wreath laid to mark the centenary of his donation of Stonehenge to the nation
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