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Ham and Petersham – Pembroke Lodge



1780 - Elizabeth, Countess of Pembroke, rents Hill Lodge (formerly the mole catcher’s cottage) from Thomas Hill, the gamekeeper of Richmond Park. She renames it Pembroke Lodge and dies here in 1831.

1847 - Queen Victoria leases Pembroke Lodge, as a country retreat, to her Prime Minister, Lord John Russell

1851 - Lord and Lady Russell of Pembroke Lodge found the Russell School in Petersham

1851 - Lord and Lady Russell take their orphaned grandsons Frank and Bertrand (later a leading philosopher) to live in Pembroke Lodge


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Sources — for this page Pasmore 2, 12-19 and Howard, 29-31

Contributors — to this page DB (RLHS)