Little Holland House
Little Holland House was the
History
Hon. Caroline Fox (1767–1845)
It was occupied from before 1802
Charles Richard Fox (1796–1873)
A large new house completed in 1827 and named for a while "Little Holland House" was first occupied by
Prinsep family
In 1850
When the lease expired in 1871, the Prinseps moved out and the Hollands demolished the building. Thoby Prinsep then leased a large plot of land on
See also
- Holland Park Circle, informal group of artists in the area
References
- ^ "Little Holland House in the 1860s shortly before demolition – 19th Century". www.rbkc.gov.uk. Retrieved 29 September 2009.
- ^ Mitton, G.E. (1903), The Fascination of London: Kensington, London
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ a b Sheppard, F.H.W., ed. (1973). "The Holland Estate: To 1874". Survey of London. Vol. 37, Northern Kensington. London: London County Council. pp. 101–126.
- ^ Walker, Annabel & Jackson, Peter, Kensington & Chelsea: A Social and Architectural History, London, 1987, p.25
- ^ Survey of London: Volume 37: "On the north side, to the west of the house built for Val Prinsep, stood a charity school which had been established in 1842 by Caroline Fox, the sister of the third Lord Holland, for the education of children of the labouring, manufacturing and other poorer classes of Kensington"
- ^ Date of birth "3 Nov 1767" per Christie, Ian, R., The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham: Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 3: January 1781 to October 1788, 2017 (first published 1971), p.95, footnote 8 [1]. Her approximate year of birth is given in a contemporary letter from Jeremy Bentham to George Wilson, dated 24 Sept 1781: "Miss Fox is a little girl between 13 and 14, a sister, and the only one, of the present Lord Holland who is about 9, consequently niece to Charles Fox and to Lady Shelburne and great-niece to the Duchess of Bedford" (Christie, p.95)
- ^ For the date of her death see: The Spectator, 15 March 1845, p.253 [2] "On the 12th (March 1845) at Little Holland House, Kensington, the Hon. Caroline Fox, niece of Charles James Fox and sister of the late Lord Holland"
- ^ For her identity as the sister of Henry Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland, see: 'The Holland estate: Since 1874', in Survey of London: Volume 37, Northern Kensington, ed. F H W Sheppard (London, 1973), pp. 126–150, quoting source "Endowed Charities (London), vol. iv, 1901, pp. 471–2; M. L. R. 1841/3/832."[3]
- ^ Walker, Annabel & Jackson, Peter, Kensington & Chelsea: A Social and Architectural History, London, 1987, p.10, the Fox family purchased most of the manor from the descendants of Sir Walter Cope (d.1614)
- ^ "Little Holland House in the 1860s shortly before demolition – 19th Century".
- ^ Survey of London: Volume 37
- ^ Survey of London: Volume 37
- ^ Survey of London: Volume 37
- ^ Survey of London: Volume 37
- ISBN 9780415133524. Retrieved 5 July 2013.
- ^ "Little Holland House, Melbury Road shortly before demolition – 20th Century". www.rbkc.gov.uk. Retrieved 29 September 2009.