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LevelSeries
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)CFGM/1
TitleFAMILY LETTERS
Extent15 boxes
Date[19th-20th century]
DescriptionCharles and Lucy Masterman spent much of their married life apart. Their letters to each other are written from a number of addresses. Some of these addresses, together with the addresses appearing most frequently in the correspondence from Masterman and Lyttelton relatives, are listed below.

Addington Sq = 10 Addington Square, Camberwell, London, SE5 (Charles Frederick Gurney Masterman's home immediately before his marriage)

Ashley Combe = Ashley Combe, Porlock, Somerset (one of the homes of Ralph and Mary Lovelace, later Earl and Countess of Lovelace)

Bell Hall = Bell Hall, Belbroughton, Worcs (country home of Sir Neville & Lady Katherine Lyttelton)

Bembridge = Bembridge School, Bembridge, Isle of Wight

Bungo = Bungo, Selsey, Sussex (Charles Frederick Gurney Masterman and Lucy Blanche Masterman's holiday home)

Churchfield = Churchfield, Walton-on-the Hill, Surrey (Charles Frederick Gurney Masterman and Lucy Blanche Masterman's country home)

Churt = Bron-y-de, Churt, Surrey (country home of David Lloyd George)

Clovelly = Clovelly Court, Clovelly

Dobermorgen = Dobermorgen, Ramsbury, Wilts

Eaton Sq = 107 Eaton Square, Belgravia, London SW1 (a London home of Sir Neville and Lady Katherine Lyttelton)

Falconhurst = Falconhurst, Edenbridge, Kent (home of John Gilbert Talbot MP and his wife, Meriel (nee Lyttelton), & family)

Farnham Castle = Farnham Castle, Farnham, Surrey (home of Bp Edward Talbot, Bp of Winchester and his wife, Lavinia, nee Lyttelton)

Gillingham St = 46 Gillingham Street, Victoria, London, SW1 (Charles Frederick Gurney Masterman and Lucy Blanche Masterman's London home)

Iona = Iona, Tunbridge Wells (home of Margaret and Daisy Masterman, Charles Frederick Gurney Masterman's mother and sister)

Littlestone-on-sea = Sealands, Littlestone-on-sea, Kent (holiday home of Lucy Blanche Masterman and he parents)

Manchester Sq = 22 Manchester Square, Mayfair, London W1 (a London home of Sir Neville & Lady Katherine Lyttelton)

Ockham = Ockham Park, Woking, Surrey (a home of Ralph and Mary Lovelace, Earl and Countess of Lovelace)

Old Rosery = Old Rosery, Redhill, Surrey

Overstrand = Grangegorman, Overstrand, Norfolk (retirement home of Rev Edward Lyttelton)

Royal Hospital = Royal Hospital, Chelsea, London, (home of Sir Neville & Lady Katherine Lyttelton, while he was Governor of the Royal Hospital)

Royal Hospital, Dublin = Royal Hospital, Dublin, Ireland (home of Sir Neville and Lady Katherine Lyttelton, while he was Commander-in-Chief of British forces in Ireland)

Selsey = Sou'ester, Bungo etc, Selsey, Sussex (Charles Frederick Gurney Masterman & Lucy Blanche Masterman's holiday homes)

Stocks = Stocks, Tring, Herts (home of Humphry & Dorothy Ward)

Stocks Cottage = Stocks Cottage, Tring, Herts (cottage belonging to the Wards.

Tunbridge Wells see Iona

Upshire Bury = Upshire Bury, Waltham Cross, Essex

Yellow Sands = Yellow Sands, Bembridge, Isle of Wight (boys' camps run by Bembridge School)
Access StatusOpen

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