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Greenlands, Buckinghamshire

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In 1946, the 3rd Viscount rented the building to the Administrative Staff College, an initiative designed to provide management education to British men and women in all sectors of the economy and government. The Smith family moved into the village of
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The present building was built on the site of a previous house which was owned in the seventeenth century by the D'Oyley family, descendants of the Norman
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that it was ‘the rather uninteresting-looking river residence of my newsagent.’ On Smith's death, his family was ennobled with the title of
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in 1991, when it received its Royal Charter. In 2008 it merged with the Business School of the University of Reading, to form the new
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Banks, bought the house in 1852, enlarged it and it was sold in 1868 on his death. It was bought by
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The next owner, Edward Marjoribanks a senior partner in
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Henley Business School
country house
River Thames
Buckinghamshire
Henley-on-Thames
University of Reading
Henley Business School
MBA
Grade II*

Robert D'Oyly
Coutts
William Henry Smith
W H Smith
Jerome K. Jerome
Viscount Hambleden
Second World War
Hambleden
Henley Management College
Historic England
"Greenlands (1125682)"
National Heritage List for England





"Greenlands Past and Present"
51°33′47″N 0°52′57″W / 51.5631°N 0.8825°W / 51.5631; -0.8825

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