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Poynter's Grove, sometimes known as Pointers Grove or Poynters Hall, was a house that once existed in
Poynter's Grove, sometimes known as Pointers Grove or Poynters Hall, was a house that once existed in Totteridge
Totteridge is a residential area and former village in the London Borough of Barnet, England. It is a mixture of suburban development and open land (including some farmland) situated 8 miles (13 km) north north-west of Charing Cross. It ...
, north London.
The house was originally in the ownership of Sir Richard Gurney, a royalist in the English Civil War
The English Civil War (1642–1651) was a series of civil wars and political machinations between Parliamentarians ("Roundheads") and Royalists led by Charles I ("Cavaliers"), mainly over the manner of Kingdom of England, England's governanc ...
and Lord Mayor of London, who died in the Tower of London
The Tower of London, officially His Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress of the Tower of London, is a historic castle on the north bank of the River Thames in central London. It lies within the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, which is sepa ...
in 1647.
The house then had a succession of largely aristocratic owners before entering the ownership of the Puget Family. By the late nineteenth century, the house was owned by Colonel John Hey Puget of the 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars
The 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars was a Cavalry regiments of the British Army, cavalry regiment in the British Army, first raised in 1693. It saw service for three centuries including the World War I, First and World War II, Second World Wars. ...
. It was sold around the time of his death in 1894 and had several other owners before being demolished around 1925.
In 1876, Lewis Gordon
Lewis Ricardo Gordon (born May 12, 1962) is an American philosopher at the University of Connecticut who works in the areas of Africana philosophy, existentialism, phenomenology, social and political theory, postcolonial thought, theories of r ...
died here. It was also the birthplace of the publisher Cecil Harmsworth King
Cecil Harmsworth King (20 February 1901 – 17 April 1987) was Chairman of Daily Mirror Newspapers, Sunday Pictorial Newspapers and the International Publishing Corporation (1963–1968), and a director at the Bank of England (1965–1968).
B ...
in 1901, whose grandmother, Geraldine Maffett Harmsworth, was the then-owner of the house.
See also
* Peter Meyer (merchant)References
External links
*http://landedfamilies.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/105-alleyn-of-hatfield-peverel-and.html Totteridge Former houses in the London Borough of Barnet {{London-struct-stub