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Derwent Island House

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Berkswell. He was a director with his father, and a younger brother, Mr Stephen Grindlay, of Grindlay (Coventry) Ltd. Mr Grindlay, a prominent Freemason, was a member of the Grand Lodge of England and of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Warwickshire. He was a past master of the Victory Lodge, Coventry. His death occurred suddenly. The funeral will be on Friday at 3.30 pm at Allesley Church. He leaves a widow, Mrs Vera Grindlay, and a son and daughter.
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Director of a Coventry Firm dies aged 65. Mr Reginald Robert Grindlay, the elder son of Mr A. R. Grindlay, a former Alderman and "Father" of Coventry City Council, died at his home at Derwent Island, Keswick, yesterday. Mr Grindlay was 65 years old and until about six months ago lived at Holly Lodge,
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was upset by the building, feeling it spoiled the view, and described Pocklington as "a native of Nottinghamshire, who played strange pranks by his buildings and plantations upon Vicar's Island, in Derwentwater, which his admiration, such as it was, of the country, and probably a wish to be a leader
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in 1539. In 1569 it was sold to the Company of Mines Royal a subsidiary of a German mining company. The German miners built a camp on the island where they kept animals, grew vegetables and brewed beer.
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on the lake at which he fired off his cannon and the small fort used for mock battles. Pocklington sold the island to William Peachy in 1796, a friend of poet Robert Southey.
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on the land. The house was one of the earliest villas to be built in the lake district, an entry in Pocklington's notebooks suggests that he saw a house on
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to add east and west wings and a three-storey tower to the house. In 1951, Mr Marshall's grandson Denis Marshall gave the property to the National Trust.
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In 1778 Joseph Pocklington bought the island (then known as Vicar's Island) from Miles Ponsonby for £300. He built a house, boathouse, fort and
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lake) in 1776, perhaps inspiring his own ambition for a house on a lake district island. Pocklington held annual
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and used by monks, but with the dissolution of the monasteries, it became property of
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Henry Cowper Marshall purchased the island in 1844 and employed architect
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Wordsworth, "First Letter on the Keswick and Windermere Railway", 1844.
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During the 20th century, the house was home to several members of the
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Derwent Island House, Historic Building Recording, Matrix Archaeology
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house situated on the seven-acre (three-hectare) Derwent Island,
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Grade II listed house on Derwent Island, Cumbria, England
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Derwent Isle

Italianate
Derwent Water
Keswick, Cumbria
National Trust
classical
Fountains Abbey
the Crown
battery
Druid
circle
folly
Belle Isle
Windermere
regattas
Anthony Salvin
Grindlay family
William Wordsworth



Listed buildings in Keswick, Cumbria
"Derwent Isle House"
Historic England
"National Trust looks for Derwent Island House tenants"
"Keswick - Derwent Isle House"
"The British News Paper Archive"
Derwent Island House
54°35′28″N 3°08′42″W / 54.5912°N 3.1449°W / 54.5912; -3.1449

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