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Family scandal in the courts made the newspapers in 1850s. Emily Bland’s father, Rev Henry Cherry attempted kidnapping his second wife Emily Mary
Sutherland. She wanted to leave the marriage and applied to the court of Queen's bench to protect her, while Cherry applied in 1858 a suit for restitution
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Bland died on 31 March 1876, aged 73, and was buried at St Mary’s churchyard, Burghfield. He gave
Hillfields house to his nephew Thomas Bland Garland, another property to nephew Marcus Horatio Bland and the residue of his estate to his son Horatio Bland Guerra. Bland Garland offered the Bland
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in March 1868 where she is buried in the
Protestant Cemetery. Bland founded Mrs Bland’s School at Burghfield Common in memory of his wife. The school bell was a large Japanese temple bell dating to 1746 that Bland had collected on his travels. In 1953 it was given to the
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Rev Henry Curtis Cherry and his first wife Anne Alicia
Cameron. The Bland's lived in a large Georgian house called Culverlands at Burghfield Hill. Bland also owned adjoining land at Burghfield Common and in 1855 he bought Hartley Grange at Hartley Witney, Hampshire.
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In 1874 Bland built a new museum in
Burghfield for his growing museum collection, replacing the smaller museum building at Hillfields. The eclectic collection and museum was described by Dr Joseph Stevens, the first curator of Reading
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31 March 1876) was a merchant and collector of artefacts from around the world. He set up a private museum in
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