page_title: Deer Park Country House, Buckerell
section_title: Later residents
hierarchical_section_title: Deer Park Country House, Buckerell / Later residents
caption_attribution_description: English: Walter Fell Smith of Deer Park, Honiton
context_page_description: Deer Park Country House near Honiton, Devon is a house of historical significance and is Grade II listed on the English Heritage Register. It was built in the early 1700s by a wealthy landowner and was the home of many notable people over the next two centuries. Today it is a venue for special events including conferences and weddings.
context_section_description: Colin Lindsay (1819-1892) who owned the house from 1856 until his death in 1892 was the son of Sir James Lindsay, 24th Earl of Crawford. In 1845 he married Lady Frances Howard (1821-1897) and the couple had seven children. The 1861 Census records the family living at Deer Park with a butler, a housekeeper, two ladies maids, and three other household servants. Colin died in 1892 and his wife Lady Frances continued to live at the house until her death in 1897. The property was inherited by their eldest son William Alexander Lindsay (1846-1926).
  From about 1900 until 1922 the Fell-Smith family were the residents of Deer Park. Walter Fell Smith retired to the property and lived there for over twenty years until he died there aged 81. Before this he was Superintendent of the Police in Bengal and then Deputy Chief of Police in Manchester. He was described in his obituary as “having all the characteristics of the fine old English country squire.” Soon after his death in 1922 Robert Dand became the owner of the house.
  Robert Dand (1876-1950) was an attorney. In 1920 the married Janet Mary Hebeler (nee Scott) who was a widow. They lived at Deer park until about 1930 when it was purchased by the Parry family.
  Edward Arthur Parry (1879-1946) was a barrister. In 1911 he married Angela Ida Harriet Scully who was the daughter of William Scully an Irishman who had made a vast fortune as a land developer in America. When he died in 1906 he left an estate of 50 million dollars which today would be about 1.5 billion dollars. He left most of this to the three surviving children of his second marriage one of whom was Angela.
  The couple had three sons, one of whom John Edward Parry was awarded the Military Cross in 1942. Edward died in 1946 and shortly after the property was sold. In 1947 Deer Park opened as a hotel.
caption: Walter Fell Smith
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