Catalogue description ESTATES OF THE TOLLEMACHE FAMILY OF HAM HOUSE IN KINGSTON UPON THAMES, HAM, PETERSHAM AND ELSEWHERE: RECORDS, 14TH CENTURY-1945

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Reference: K58
Title: ESTATES OF THE TOLLEMACHE FAMILY OF HAM HOUSE IN KINGSTON UPON THAMES, HAM, PETERSHAM AND ELSEWHERE: RECORDS, 14TH CENTURY-1945
Description:

These papers were collected with the permission of the late Sir Lyonel Tollemache from Ham House stables in September 1953, through the good offices of Mr R Lee of Ormeley Lodge Ham

 

They were records which had been delivered up after transferral of the Tollemache family business from one firm of solicitors to another. The major portion of the records had formerly been stored in the Chancery Lane safe deposit which was blitzed during the 1939-45 war and subsequently flooded by fire-fighting hoses. Most unfortunately no attempt was made to remove the papers for some months afterwards and when this was finally done considerable decomposition had set in, particularly where records had been stored on the floor of the safe. Many of the documents now included in this list show signs of these vicissitudes.

 

The deposit includes court rolls and other manorial records of the manor of Kingston Canbury, 1604-1922 (K58/1/-); the manor of Ham, 1509-1933 (K58/2/-), the records of which include a group of medieval deeds, pre-1305-1582 (K58/2/3/1); the manors of Ham and Petersham combined, c.1490-1694 (K35/3/-); and the manor of Petersham, 1509-1933. The extensive series of deeds includes many relating to acquisitions in Ham and Petersham and the development of the Surrey estate in the late 19th/early 20th centuries. For the Tollemache's important 17th century mansion, Ham House (in Petersham) there survive inventories of the furniture and books, 1844 (K58/8/290-291), and a catalogue and valuation of the contents, 1911 (K58/8/296).

 

A further group of papers relates to the preservation of Ham and Petersham Commons and of the view from Richmond Hill, and of the exploitation of the right to extract gravel, 1844-1939 (K58/12/-).

Note:

LMS/JLY January 1972

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Date: 14th century-1945
Arrangement:

The surviving records (apart from the early ones for Ham and Petersham in the Public Record Office) of the manors of Ham, Petersham and Kingston Canbury, until then supposed to have been destroyed entirely, were listed shortly after the papers were received in the Surrey Record Office. The more modern records of the estates, many in a more damaged condition, were not however examined at that time. They have now been sorted and the list incorporated with that of the manorial records, to which they form a natural extension by the illustration of the later development of the Tollemache Surrey estate.

 

K58/1/ MANOR OF KINGSTON CANBURY

 

K58/2/ MANOR OF HAM

 

K58/3/ MANORS OF HAM AND PETERSHAM

 

K58/4/ MANOR OF PETERSHAM

 

K58/5/ MISCELLANEOUS RECORDS

 

K58/6/ PROPERTIES IN HAM

 

K58/7/ LAND AND DEVELOPMENT IN HAM

 

K58/8/ PROPERTIES IN PETERSHAM

 

K58/9/ PROPERTIES IN KINGSTON UPON THAMES

 

K58/10/ NEW MALDEN

 

K58/11/ RICHMOND

 

K58/12/ RICHMOND, PETERSHAM & HAM OPEN SPACES ACT: Papers, correspondence, plans for 1902 Act and for Petersham and Ham Lands and Footpaths Bill, 1896; Ham gravel & dock; towpath in Ham, Petersham & Kingston; Twickenham ferry; Twickenham bridge and land in TWICKENHAM and TEDDINGTON, Middlesex

 

K58/13/ SURREY ESTATES also TWICKENHAM ESTATE and LINCOLNSHRE and LEICESTERSHIRE ESTATES and general estate management

 

K58/14/ Maps and plans and associated documents

 

K58/15/ Properties in LEICESTER and LEICESTERSHIRE and LONDON houses

 

K58/16/ LINCOLNSHIRE estates

 

K58/17/ LEICESTERSHIRE and LINCOLNSHIRE estatse and RUTLAND estates and WELSH manors

 

K58/18/ HIGH COURT, CHANCERY DIVISION, papers on the matter of the Estate of the Rt Hon Lionel William John Manners, Earl of Dysart, deceased

 

K58/19/ WILLS and PROBATE, papers, correspondence and accounts

 

K58/20/ TRUSTEES' accounts, financial correspondence and associated documents

 

K58/21/ INVESTMENTS and other expenditure

 

K58/22/ SURREY Coroner's papers, etc

 

K58/23/ CAMBRIDGESHIRE, Isle of Ely

 

K58/24/ HAMPSHIRE, Andover

 

K58/25/ YORKSHIRE

 

K58/26/ BERKSHIRE, Reading

 

K58/27/ BUCKINGHAMSHIRE and LONDON

 

K58/28/ MIDDLESEX, Hammersmith

 

K58/29/ [NOTTINGHAM]

 

K58/30/ Unrelated document

Held by: Surrey History Centre, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Tollemache family, Barons Tollemache

Physical description: 30 series
Access conditions:

There are no access restrictions.

Subjects:
  • Ham, Surrey
  • Petersham, Surrey
Administrative / biographical background:

Manors of Ham and Petersham: these manors were demised by the Crown to William Murray, only son of William Murray, minister of Dysart, Fife. William (the son) was introduced to court by his uncle Thomas, tutor to Charles I while Prince of Wales and afterwards his secretary. Shortly after Charles I's accession William Murray was appointed one of the Gentlemen of the Bedchamber (Manning & Bray, History of Surrey 1804, vol 1, p304). The grant of the manors of Ham and Petersham in 1636/7 was a further mark of royal favour which culminated in 1643 in the creation of the Earldom of Dysart and Barony of Huntingtower in Scotland. Since, however, the warrant was not passed under the Great Seal during Charles' lifetime, the title was never used officially by William Murray.

 

He was succeeded c.1654 by his elder daughter Elizabeth who had married c.1647 Sir Lionel Tollemache, 3rd bart, of Helmingham, Suffolk. Sir Lionel died 1668/9 and his wife, Countess of Dysart in her own right, in 1698, when she was succeeded by their eldest son Lionel, 4th bart and 3rd Earl (The Complete Peerage). Thence the earldom of Dysart and the lordship of the manors of Ham and Petersham descended together in the Tollemache family until the twentieth century.

 

Manor of Kingston Canbury: this manor is not mentioned in the Domesday Survey but was held at an early date by Merton Priory whence derives its suffix of Canbury - a contraction of Canonbury (Place-Names of Surrey, English Place-Name Society, vol XI, 1934). After the Dissolution the manor, with the rectory and advowson of Kingston, was the subject of various Crown leases until granted in 1640 to William Murray who, however, in the following year assigned it to the Earl of Elgin; after some other conveyances the manor, rectory and advowson were sold in 1671 to Nicholas Hardinge (Victoria History of Surrey vol III, 1911, p513) whose descendant George Hardinge esq sold the manor to Wilbraham, 6th Earl of Dysart: the purchase of the manor is presented in the court book (K58/1/2/4 p37) on 4 September 1800.

 

Leicestershire and Lincolnshire estates: Lady Louisa Tollemache, eldest sister of the 5th and 6th Earls of Dysart, succeeded to the title on the death of her brother Wilbraham in 1821. She had married in 1765 John Manners of Grantham Grange, Lincolnshire, a grandson of John, 2nd Duke of Rutland. Their son, Sir William Manners bart of Hanby Hall, Lincolnshire, took the surname Talmash by royal licence of 4 April 1821. Sir William, styled Lord Huntingtower from 1921, predeceased his mother and it was consequently his son, Lionel William John Talmash (afterwards Tollemache) who became 8th Earl of Dysart in 1840. From the Manners marriage of the Tollemache heiress, considerable interests were acquired in Lincolnshire, Leicestershire and Rutland..

 

Suffolk estates: the original Suffolk properties of the Tollemache family were bequeathed by Wilbraham, 6th Earl of Dysart, by will dated 5 December 1804, to the heirs (later Barons Tollemache) of his younger sister, Lady Jane (Halliday), (d.1802). Consequently the only document in this collection relating to Suffolk is K58/5/1/2

 

Welsh estate: also from the Manners' interest derives the small parcel of documents relating to rents from estates in Wales (K58/17/40).

 

The 8th Earl of Dysart died at 34 Norfolk Street, Strand, Middlesex on 23 September 1878. His will, which was drawn up in 1873 after the death of his son, William, Lord Huntingtower, left all his real and personal estate to trustees for twenty-one years from the date of his death, to the use of this grandson and heir in tail male and with very numerous bequests to other relations and dependants. The will was proved 6 December 1878 and Order made on 7 December 1878 by the Master of the Rolls that the trusts should be executed and the usual and also Special Accounts and Enquiries be made (see K58/18/-). Trustees, in fact, continued to act after twenty-one years had elapsed because of a continuing need to administer the investments from which annuities were paid to various legatees and because the first tenant-in-tail did not attain his majority until 5 April 1915. On 12 June 1934 the 9th Earl of Dysart (with the consent of the next heir) conveyed to Buckminster Estates all his life interest in the Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and Surrey estates. Buckminster Estates also took over the responsibilities of the trustees of the 8th Earl's will (K58/13/181-2).

 

The 9th Earl of Dysart died 22 November 1935, when the earldom, being a Scottish title heritable in females, devolved upon his niece Wenefryde Agatha, only child of the Earl's elder sister Lady Agnes by her husband Charles Norman Lindsay Scott. The baronetcy and the entailed estates went to the deceased Earl's cousin, Sir Lyonel (Felix Carteret Eugene) Tollemache, whose son, Sir (Cecil) Lyonel Tollemache, deposited these papers.

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