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106: 42: 29: 219:. However this was actually at Number 1 Addison Road, at the north-eastern boundary of the Holland House estate, and it is probable he was persuaded to buy the freehold from his father in order to attract other high society occupants to the new development. He also purchased from his father much land surrounding the house. After his death in 1873 Number 1 Addison Road was mostly demolished and built upon, but part of the house survives as the club-house of Holland Park Tennis Club. 191:, which moved it to a new site in Silver Street, today the northern end of Kensington Church Street. In 1877 the original site of the school in Holland Park Road was sold by auction for £2,650, and in its place was built the present Nos. 20–30 (even) Holland Park Road, a group of six two-storey studio residences arranged around a courtyard with an arched entrance, originally called "The Studios". The school moved a third time in 1937 to its present site on Kensington Place. 122: 51: 441:
For her identity as the sister of Henry Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland, see: 'The Holland estate: Since 1874', in Survey of London: Volume 37, Northern Kensington, ed. F H W Sheppard (London, 1973), pp. 126–150, quoting source "Endowed Charities (London), vol. iv, 1901, pp. 471–2; M. L. R.
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to George Wilson, dated 24 Sept 1781: "Miss Fox is a little girl between 13 and 14, a sister, and the only one, of the present Lord Holland who is about 9, consequently niece to Charles Fox and to Lady Shelburne and great-niece to the Duchess of Bedford" (Christie,
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which had been established in 1842 by Caroline Fox, the sister of the third Lord Holland, for the education of children of the labouring, manufacturing and other poorer classes of Kensington"
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It was occupied from before 1802 until her death in 1845 by Hon. Caroline Fox (3 November 1767 – 12 March 1845) who died there unmarried in 1845 aged 78. She was the only daughter of
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to place a building preservation order on it. In its place was built a block of flats designed by Austin Blomfield, named Kingfisher House, which continues to occupy the site.
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When the lease expired in 1871, the Prinseps moved out and the Hollands demolished the building. Thoby Prinsep then leased a large plot of land on
167:(1749–1806), who made Holland House a famous meeting place of prominent Whig politicians. Her brother bequeathed it to her and she called it 156: 622: 148: 783: 757: 534: 216: 20: 208: 615: 413: 136: 113:(1746–1831) of Hon. Caroline Fox (1767–1845), then aged 43, only daughter of Stephen Fox, 2nd Baron Holland. Collection of 32:
Little Holland House in the 1860s, west front, before demolition in 1871. Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Libraries
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Ermine, on a chevron azure three fox's heads and necks erased or on a canton of the second a fleur-de-lys of the third
243:(1817–1904), a friend of both the Hollands and the Prinseps. Watts, the Prinseps and Henry's sisters-in-law such as 105: 457:, London, 1987, p.10, the Fox family purchased most of the manor from the descendants of Sir Walter Cope (d.1614) 88:. It was situated at the end of Nightingale Lane, now the back entrance to Holland Park and was demolished when 41: 669: 28: 244: 395:
Survey of London: Volume 37: "On the north side, to the west of the house built for Val Prinsep, stood a
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A large new house completed in 1827 and named for a while "Little Holland House" was first occupied by
187:(12 Holland Park Road) the house built for the painter Lord Leighton. In 1876 it was taken over by the 266:(the heir of the 4th Baron Holland), part of which he gave to Watts. On his plot, Watts commissioned 742: 430: 287: 267: 228: 200: 188: 363: 736: 232: 172: 685: 661: 530: 339: 248: 164: 110: 412:, Volume 3: January 1781 to October 1788, 2017 (first published 1971), p.95, footnote 8 121: 416: 396: 184: 772: 752: 653: 259: 212: 140: 179:, to the west of today's number 14 Holland Park Road, a house built for the painter 50: 677: 255: 176: 125: 89: 518: 730: 180: 160: 69: 247:
lived, worked and entertained here for 21 years, making it the centre of their
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The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham: Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham
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For the date of her death see: The Spectator, 15 March 1845, p.253
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Former dower house of Holland House, Kensington, Middlesex, England
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was made. Number 14 Melbury Road marks its approximate location.
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Sheppard, F.H.W., ed. (1973). "The Holland Estate: To 1874".
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Former houses in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
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Kensington & Chelsea: A Social and Architectural History
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Kensington & Chelsea: A Social and Architectural History
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of Kensington, and was a niece of the Whig statesman
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Little Holland House, Carshalton



dower house
Holland House
Kensington
Middlesex
England
Melbury Road

James Northcote
Royal Albert Memorial Museum

Canting arms
Stephen Fox, 2nd Baron Holland
Holland House
Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland
Lady Caroline Lennox
John FitzPatrick, 1st Earl of Upper Ossory
Henry Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland
manor
Charles James Fox
Fox Primary School
Holland Park
Val Prinsep
Leighton House
London School Board
Charles Richard Fox
Henry Richard Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland

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