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Beaufort House
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Beaufort House is an 18th-century Grade II listed house in Ham in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.
History
[edit]Beaufort House was built in about 1780.[1] It was originally the dower house to Ham House.[2]
In about 1855, a private Catholic girls school moved to Beaufort House.[3] In 1856, St Mary's Catholic Chapel was set up in its grounds, with a separate entrance for the public, and closed in 1870, when the school moved to Notting Hill.[1][3]
The house was listed Grade II in 1983.[4]
Notable residents
[edit]Lady Juliana Fermor Penn lived there until her death in 1801.[citation needed] Admiral Sir William Parker, 1st Baronet, of Harburn died in 1802 at Beaufort House, which was his country estate when he was not living at 12 Crooms Hill, Greenwich.[5]
In 1901, Dr William Simpson Craig (1822–1893), the father of the psychiatrist Sir Maurice Craig and politician Norman Craig was living there,[6] as was Norah Palmer Holroyd, an ancestor of Michael Holroyd.[7] From 1907 to 1920, Craig's son-in-law, Dr Macnamara (and his wife) lived there.[7]
The house is now home to Johnny Van Haeften, a British art dealer specialising in 16th and 17th century Dutch and Flemish Old Master paintings. Van Haeften now runs his business from a refurbished coach house in the grounds of Beaufort House.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Ham History Timeline – Ham is where the Heart is".
- ^ "A Petersham & Ham Walk". london-footprints.co.uk.
- ^ a b "Ham - St Thomas Aquinas". Taking Stock.
- ^ Historic England (25 June 1983). "Beaufort House (1080788)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 21 February 2026.
- ^ "Sheppey's Admiral: Sir William Parker". CaptainCookSociety.com. Retrieved 20 July 2021.
- ^ "Deaths". Bedfordshire Mercury. 19 February 1909. p. 5.
- ^ a b Holroyd, Michael (1 August 2015). Basil Street Blues: A Family Story. Head of Zeus. pp. 30–. ISBN 978-1-78497-141-0.
- ^ Shaw, Anny (5 January 2017). "Old Master dealer Johnny Van Haeften opens gallery in London home". The Art Newspaper. Retrieved 19 July 2021.
