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Cobham Park
Cobham Park is a former mansion and country estate in Cobham, Surrey, Cobham, Surrey, England. The main house was converted to apartments in the early 2000s, but the majority of the surrounding former parkland remains undeveloped. At its height in the 19th century, the estate included the majority of the neighbouring settlement of dowside Downside, Surrey, Downside. The first records of the land are from the 15th century and it is referred to as "Dounefelde" in a charter of Chertsey Abbey dated 1468. The first large house to be built at Cobham Park was constructed in the 1720s. The current building dates from the early 1870s and was designed by Edward Middleton Barry. Location Cobham Park is a former parkland and mansion between the villages of Cobham, Surrey, Cobham and Downside, Surrey, Downside in Surrey. The land is on a terrace of sand and gravel above the adjacent River Mole. Major flooding events are recorded at Cobham Park in 1847 and 1900. History Downe Place Although ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mansion In Cobham Park
A mansion is a large dwelling house. The word itself derives through Old French from the Latin word ''mansio'' "dwelling", an abstract noun derived from the verb ''manere'' "to dwell". The English word ''manse'' originally defined a property large enough for the parish priest to maintain himself, but a mansion is usually no longer self-sustaining in this way (compare a Roman or medieval villa). ''Manor house, Manor'' comes from the same root—territorial holdings granted to a lord who would "remain" there. Following the fall of Rome, the practice of building unfortified villas ceased. Today, the oldest inhabited mansions around the world usually began their existence as fortified houses in the Middle Ages. As social conditions slowly changed and stabilized fortifications were able to be reduced, and over the centuries gave way to comfort. It became fashionable and possible for homes to be beautiful rather than grim and forbidding allowing for the development of the modern mansi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Pitt, 1st Earl Of Chatham
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (15 November 170811 May 1778) was a British people, British British Whig Party, Whig politician, statesman who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1766 to 1768. Historians call him "Chatham" or "Pitt the Elder" to distinguish him from his son William Pitt the Younger, who also served as prime minister. Pitt was also known as "the Great Commoner" because of his long-standing refusal to accept a title until 1766. Pitt was a member of the British cabinet and with a brief interlude in 1757, its informal leader from 1756 to 1761, during the Seven Years' War (including the French and Indian War in the Thirteen Colonies, American colonies). He again led the ministry, holding the official title of Lord Privy Seal, between 1766 and 1768. Much of his power came from his brilliant oratory. He was out of power for most of his career and became well known for his attacks on the government, such as those on Robert Walpole, Walpole's corruption in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Laing Plc
John Laing Group is a British investor, developer and operator of privately financed, public sector infrastructure projects such as roads, railways, hospitals and schools through public-private partnership (PPP) and private finance initiative (PFI) arrangements. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index prior to its acquisition by KKR. The company has its origins in 1848, when James Laing and his wife Ann Graham embarked on a home construction venture in Cumberland before relocating to Carlisle. James' son, John Laing, took over the company and pursued larger contracts in the region. By 1920, John William Laing had taken charge and continued to expand the business; it became a limited company in 1920 and established its headquarters at Mill Hill, London two years later. Its activities during and after World War II, particularly in the reconstruction efforts, increased the company's prominence. In January 1953, John Laing & Sons was li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Logica
Logica plc was a Multinational corporation, multinational information technology, IT and Management consulting, management consultancy company headquartered in London and later Reading, Berkshire, Reading, United Kingdom. Founded in 1969, the company had offices in London and in a number of major cities across England, Wales and Scotland, as well as in other countries around the world. It was responsible for many telecommunications infrastructure projects, such as the design of the SWIFT network for international money transfers, the Packet switching#Euronet, Euronet packet-switching network, and the Bay Area Rapid Transit in San Francisco. Following the acquisition of CMG (company), CMG in 2002, the company was known as LogicaCMG from then until 2008, when it changed its name back to Logica. The company's main business at that point was in providing consulting, systems integration, and IT outsourcing in both the public and private sectors. Logica was acquired by Canada-base ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zurich Financial Services
Zurich Insurance Group Ltd. is a Swiss insurance company, headquartered in Zürich, and the country's largest insurer. the group is the world's 98th largest public company according to ''Forbes'' Global 2000s list, and in 2011, it ranked 94th in Interbrand's top 100 brands. Zurich is a global insurance company which is organized into three core business segments: General Insurance, Global Life and Farmers. Zurich employs 55,000 people, with customers in 215 countries and territories. The company is listed on SIX Swiss Exchange. it had a shareholders' equity of $34.494 billion.ZIG profile , zurich.com; accessed 27 April 2014. Company history Zurich Insurance Company (1872–1998) The company was founded in 1872 as a |
Eagle Star Insurance
The Eagle Star Insurance Company plc (formerly Eagle Star Insurance Company Limited) was a leading British insurance business. It underwrote the full range of risks including liability, fire, accident, marine, motor, life, contingency and Pluvius (weather) insurance. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. History The Company was founded by Edward Mountain in 1904 as the ''British Dominions Marine Insurance Company'', which operated as a marine insurance office in the five principal overseas Dominions. It started writing fire and accident policies in 1911 and life assurance policies in 1916. It expanded rapidly in its early years acquiring ''the Eagle'' (founded by Sir William Rawlins in 1807) in 1916 and both ''the Sceptre'' (founded in 1864) and ''the Star'' (founded in 1843) in 1917. It was renamed the ''Eagle Star & British Dominions'' in 1917 and ''Eagle Star'' in 1937. For many years its Head Office was at the prestigious ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikolaus Pevsner
Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner (30 January 1902 – 18 August 1983) was a German-British art historian and architectural historian best known for his monumental 46-volume series of county-by-county guides, ''The Buildings of England'' (1951–74). Life Nikolaus Pevsner was born in Leipzig, Kingdom of Saxony, Saxony, the son of Anna and her husband Hugo Pevsner, a Russian-Jewish fur merchant. He attended St. Thomas School, Leipzig, and went on to study at several universities, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, and Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, before being awarded a doctorate by Leipzig University, Leipzig in 1924 for a thesis on the Architecture of Leipzig#Leipzig bourgeois town houses and oriel windows of the Baroque era, Baroque architecture of Leipzig. In 1923, he married Carola ("Lola") Kurlbaum, the daughter of distinguished Leipzig lawyer Alfred Kurlbaum. He worked as an assistant keeper at the Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Buonarotti Papworth
John Buonarotti Papworth (24 January 1775 – 16 June 1847) was a British architect, artist and a founder member of the Royal Institute of British Architects. He adopted the middle name "Buonarotti" in around 1815. As well as being active in the UK, he designed a monument in Belgium and designed buildings intended for Germany and the USA. Life Papworth was born in Marylebone, London, in 1775 to John Papworth (plasterer), John Papworth and his wife Charlotte (née Searle). He was one of twelve children and the second of six sons. His father described himself as an "architect, plasterer and builder". His background was in decorative plasterwork, and he dominated the trade in London, employing more than 500 men. At the recommendation of Sir William Chambers (architect), William Chambers he spent two years as a pupil of the architect John Plaw and was then apprenticed to the builder Thomas Wapshott, whose daughter Jane he then married. John Summerson described Papworth as "one ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harvey Christian Combe
Harvey Christian Combe (1752 – 4 July 1818) was an English Whigs (British political party), Whig politician. He was the eldest surviving son of Harvey Combe, attorney, of Andover, Hampshire. He served as Lord Mayor of London 1799/1800. Life He was born in Andover, Hampshire the eldest son of Harvey Combe, a wealthy lawyer, and his wife Christiana Cornhill. Inheriting a large sum he moved to London and worked as a corn merchant, before going to work for a brewery, Gyfford & Co. Marrying Alice Christian Tree, his cousin, he inherited a large sum on the death of her father Boyce Tree, and set up a brewery with his brother-in-law Joseph Dellafield named "Combe Delafield and Co." on Castle Street in Long Acre, gaining a good reputation as a fine brewer. He was elected an Alderman of London in 1790 and Lord Mayor of the City of London, Lord Mayor of London in 1799. He was appointed Sheriff of London for 1791–92. At the 1796 British general election, 1796 general election he was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Painshill
Painshill (formally Painshill Park) is a restored 18th-century English park and landscape garden in Cobham, Surrey, England. It was designed and created between 1738 and 1773 by the owner, Charles Hamilton. Painshill is Grade I- listed and is a representative of a time when formal baroque gardens were being superseded by a landscape style that used architectural follies and areas of wilderness to construct an idealised representation of nature. The evolving design of Painshill was also influenced by the Picturesque, particularly in the hillier, western half of the park, which Horace Walpole likened to a "kind of Alpine scene". In designing the park, Hamilton was influenced by 17th-century landscape artists, including Claude Lorrain, Nicholas Poussin and Salvator Rosa, whose works he had encountered on Grand Tours in 1725 and 1732. Painshill is laid out as a series of scenes, crafted by combining architectural features with trees and shrubs, many of which are non-native spe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Luttrell, 2nd Earl Of Carhampton
General (United Kingdom), General Henry Lawes Luttrell, 2nd Earl of Carhampton Privy Council of Ireland, PC (7 August 1743 – 25 April 1821) was a British Army officer and politician, who both in public and private life attracted scandal. He was spurned by colleagues in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, British House of Commons who believed that in the election of 1769 he had played an underhand role in denying his seat to the popular choice, the reformer John Wilkes. In 1788 he was publicly accused in Dublin of raping a twelve-year-old girl. Ten years later, his command in the suppression of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, Irish rebellion of 1798 was criticised by fellow officers for its savagery, and not least against women. His last years in Parliament of the United Kingdom, Parliament were marked by his opposition to Catholic emancipation, Catholic Emancipation, and to parliamentary reform. Early years Luttrell was born in Cranford, Middlesex, the scion of an Anglo-Ir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
