Aldenham House

Aldenham House is a former country house in

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, just south-east of

Aldenham Aldenham is a village and civil parish in Hertfordshire, north-east of Watford and southwest of Radlett. It was mentioned in the Domesday Book and is one of Hertsmere's 14 conservation areas. The village has eight pre-19th-century listed buil ...

village and west of

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, Hertfordshire, England, which was the seat of the Gibbs family, who were the

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. The site today accommodates the Hilfield Reservoir, the

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, the

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and Haberdashers' School for Girls. The house was built c.1672 for H. Coghill the Younger and was acquired, renovated and extended c.1870 by the wealthy

Hucks Gibbs, 1st Baron Aldenham Henry Hucks Gibbs, 1st Baron Aldenham MA BA FGS FSA (31 August 1819 – 13 September 1907) was a British banker, businessman and Conservative Party politician. Life Aldenham was the son of George Henry Gibbs, whose father Antony Gibbs was a ...

. In 1932 the estate was sold after the death of its then occupant Vicary Gibbs, a wealthy financier, MP and avid plant collector who had amassed a larger collection of Chinese flora than the

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. Gibbs never married, and most of the plant collection was auctioned after his death.Audrey Le Lievre (1986). An Account of the Garden at Aldenham House and of Its Makers: Henry Hucks Gibbs, Vicary Gibbs and Edwin Beckett. ''Garden History'', Vol. 14, No. 2. (Autumn, 1986), 173–193.Harrison, H. (2012). Plant hunting for Borde Hill. ''The Plantsman'', June 2012, p.93

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The house and grounds became a country club until the

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, when it was requisitioned by the

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