Teversal Manor is a small 17th-century country house in Teversal, Nottinghamshire, some 5 km (3 miles) west of

Mansfield Mansfield is a market town and the administrative centre of the Mansfield District in Nottinghamshire, England. It is the largest town in the wider Mansfield Urban Area and the second largest settlement in Nottinghamshire (following the city ...

. The manor is known for its links with D. H. Lawrence’s book ''

Lady Chatterley's Lover ''Lady Chatterley's Lover'' is the final novel by English author D. H. Lawrence, which was first published privately in 1928, in Florence, Italy, and in 1929, in Paris, France. An unexpurgated edition was not published openly in the United Ki ...

''. The building is constructed of coursed and dressed rubble stone with ashlar dressings and slate roofs. It is built in two storeys with attics with an irregular 7 bay frontage. 250px, Entrance to Teversal Manor

History

Prior to 1562 Roger Greenhalgh owned Teversal Manor. The manor was inherited in that year by Greenhalgh's son-in-law Francis Molyneux. He was

High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire This is a list of the High Sheriffs of the English county of Nottinghamshire. The High Sheriff is the oldest secular office under the Crown. Formerly the High Sheriff was the principal law enforcement officer in the county but over the centu ...

for 1582–83. His grandson Sir John Molyneux, 1st Baronet, was High Sheriff for 1609 and created a baronet in 1611. The Molyneux baronets and families remained in the village for about 150 years. The estate descended to Sir Francis Molyneux, 7th Baronet (1738-1812), who was a courtier who became Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod. On his death, unmarried, his estates at Teversal and Wellow passed to his nephew Henry Howard, who adopted the surname Molyneux-Howard and died in 1824. Teversal passed to his daughter Henrietta Anna Howard-Molyneux-Howard, who married in 1830 John George, the 3rd Earl of Carnarvon. He died young in 1849, but his widow lived until 1876. The house was remodelled by MacVicar Anderson in a neo-Jacobean style for the Hon. Henrietta Molyneux. The Carnarvons retained possession of the house until the death of Henry, the 4th Earl's wife, Elizabeth Catherine (née Howard), in 1929. The 4th Earl was a British cabinet minister and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. His wife, Elizabeth Catherine Howard, otherwise known as Elsie, used the Manor at Teversal for refugees. Their son

George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, (26 June 1866 – 5 April 1923), styled Lord Porchester until 1890, was an English peer and aristocrat best known as the financial backer of the search for and excavation of ...

, and his wife Almina were associated with

Howard Carter Howard Carter (9 May 18742 March 1939) was a British archaeologist and Egyptology, Egyptologist who Discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun, discovered Tomb of Tutankhamun, the intact tomb of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt, 18th Dynasty Pharaoh ...

and funded the excavations of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922.

Aubrey Herbert Colonel The Honourable Aubrey Nigel Henry Molyneux Herbert (3 April 1880 – 26 September 1923), of Pixton Park in Somerset and of Teversal, in Nottinghamshire, was a British soldier, diplomat, traveller, and intelligence officer associat ...

, the half Brother of the 5th Earl of Carnarvon, celebrated his coming of age at Teversal Manor. The manor was visited by

Virginia Woolf Adeline Virginia Woolf (; ; 25 January 1882 28 March 1941) was an English writer and one of the most influential 20th-century modernist authors. She helped to pioneer the use of stream of consciousness narration as a literary device. Vir ...

in 1904, and is believed to be the basis of the fictional Wragby Hall in

D. H. Lawrence David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was an English novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, literary critic, travel writer, essayist, and painter. His modernist works reflect on modernity, social alienation ...

's 1928 novel '' Lady Chatterley’s Lover''. Wright C N ‘Wright's Directory of Nottingham and twelve miles round’ 1854 pub for the compiler J Bell retrieved 22 August 2020

References

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