Kneller Hall, Whitton
Mrs Magic
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Twickenham – Kneller Hall
1709 - Sir Godfrey Kneller buys and demolishes an earlier house and builds a new house, Whitton Hall, which is later known as Kneller Hall.
1723 - Sir Godfrey Kneller dies and leaves Kneller Hall to his widow Susannah.
1729 - Lady Kneller dies and Kneller Hall passes to Sir Godfrey Kneller's grandson.
1777 - Samual Prime inherits Kneller Hall from his father, Sir Samuel Prime, and enlarges the house and estate.
1847 - Kneller Hall is bought by the Committee of the Privy Council for Education. The house is largely demolished and rebuilt with nothing remaining of Kneller's original house.
1850 - The Kneller Hall Training School for the Teaching of Pauper and Criminal Children opens with Dr Frederick Temple as Principal.
1856 - The Kneller Hall Training School closes.
1857 - Kneller Hall is bought by the War Department and reopened as the Military School of Music, later the Royal Military School of Music.
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Kneller Hall Twickenham Museum
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