Catalogue description Kirkpatrick

The Kirkpatrick family first appear in the Isle of Wight in the Newport area in the 18th century. They were to become bankers and prominent members of the local Congregational Chapel. Estates were held at various times at Fairlee, St. Cross and Mount Pleasant in the parishes of Carisbrooke and Whippingham and also in the Undercliff at Niton, centred on Windcliffe. There were smaller landholdings elsewhere. By the early 20th century the landholdings at Mount Pleasant once the heart of the estate were being divided up and sold for development, and the core of the landholdings passed to Niton. The heir to the estate was Reginald Prendergast in the 1920s, and the house remained in the hands of the family until c1960.

See also KPK/PREN

Prendergast Estate, Isle of Wight

Deposited in December 1962 by the Prendergast estate (accession 62/29pt)

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