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and their wives commissioned portraits of themselves from leading
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in Cape Town and was an enthusiastic collector of
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is to be seen in the Music Room. The
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to undertake his Flora of South Africa, a mammoth work published in six volumes between 1913 and 1932.
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Florence and Lionel Phillips eventually settled at the farm
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