Colonel William Eley Cuthbert Quilter (1 results)
Published by Suffolk, 1913
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Add to basketCondition: Very Good. Original Dimensions 270mm x 215mm x 35mm. Interesting Visitor's Book reflecting the tragic history of the early 20th century. Many of the visitors had military and political connections, with service in WW1 a feature of those returning to Hill house from 1920-1939. Handsomely bound in dark green leather, ba…nded at spine, with marble and papers in soft blues and greens. Gilt lettering on upper board gives the address: The Hill House, Belstead, Ipswich. July 1913. The Visitor's Book was begun in 1913 and interrupted in 1914 by WW1; picked up again in 1920 (having reversed the book to begin afresh on the back page) until closing at the outbreak of WW2 in 1939. Occasional remarks from visitors "A happy home Ð Thank God. Mary F. Nicholson June 10 1922. Photographs of Hill House and the grounds together with newspaper clippings tipped in. Lives are played out here:Juliet St. Aubyn is a frequent visitor, with later signatures in her married name Juliet Miller (newspaper clip of her wedding to William Eustice Pitt Miller) In Nov 1928 she introduces her 10 month old son Robin on his first visit to Hill House, by Christmas 1935 he is signing his own name in the book. Frequently visiting family groups include the Sutherlands, Banks, Dykes, Martin, Denny, Browning, Miller, Notable events include a coming of age of Mr. E. Pitt Miller at Foxborough Hall 1924; shooting parties and Eton Long Leave. Signatures include the composer Roger Quilter; politician, Herbert M Jessel;/ Colonel Herbert Merton Jessel, 1st Baron Jessel (1866Ð 1950)British soldier and Liberal Unionist, later Conservative politician; Major Julian Piggott MC (1888Ð1965) British industrialist, diplomat, army officer. British Commissioner, Cologne 1920-1926; General Sir Torquhil George Matheson, 5th Baronet (1871_1963) Scottish officer commanded three divisions of the British Army in some of the heaviest fighting of the First World War; Henry Maitland Kersey (1861) British-American shipping executive and yacht racer. General Agent for the White Star Line in New York. Canadian Development Company, managing a fleet of steamships during the Klondike Gold Rush. Owned the famous racing yacht El Chico. American rep, English yacht entry in the 1895 America's Cup; Lieutenant-General Arthur Ernest Percival, (1887Ð1966) British Army officer. Best known for his defeat in WW2 Malayan campaign, Battle of Singapore. further research may prove rewarding; the writer Hector Bolitho, Sir William Eley Cuthbert Quilter, 2nd Baronet (1873Ð1952)was an English Conservative Party politician and son of the Liberal politician Sir William Quilter, 1st Baronet (1841Ð1911). He was commissioned a second-lieutenant of the Suffolk Yeomanry (The Duke of York's Own Loyal Suffolk Hussars) on 26 March 1902. His London house built in 1902/03 in South Street, Mayfair, London, was designed by Detmar Blow. It was later the home of Lord Dunglass, the birthplace of Alec Douglas-Home, and the home of Dame Barbara Cartland. Quilter was elected MP for Sudbury in Suffolk in 1910, a constituency held by his father until 1906. He held the seat until the 1918 general election, when he did not stand again. His younger brother, Lt. Col. John Arnold Cuthbert Quilter served in the Royal Naval Division in World War 1, and was killed at Gallipoli on 6 May 1915; Quilter's battalion had included the poet Rupert Brooke, who died of illness on 23 April. Another brother was the composer Roger Quilter./ Hill House was bought by Major Quilter in 1901; it lay at the centre of a 102 acre farm and is a Grade II listed 16th/17th century house in Sprites Lane, Pinewood, Suffolk. In 1920 the name changed Belstead House, with the building remodelled by Harold Hooper and Garrard in 1936, during which much of the original building was lost, although expanded using material from other period houses available locally. Belstead House was bought by East Suffolk County Council in 1948 to provide accommodation for High Court Judges visiting Ipswich. It was also used as venue for adult education, a use which increased when it was no longer used by the judges after 1974. Very good indeed. Signedes.