Newtown Park

According to R. G. Thorne, The House of Commons, 1790-1820 (1986), I, 619, quoting W. D. Bayley, History of the House of D’Oyly, 132, ‘Lady D’Oyly was “averse to [D’Oyly’s] being in Parliament as she wished him always to reside in the country, but his home was so unpleasant that he desired to have the plea of attending Parliament that he might be absent from it”’. Gilpin, Remarks on forest scenery, III, 133: ‘Sir John D’Oyly’s capital view is from a circular room at the top of his house. ‘Perkins, p. 76 ‘Chicheley Plowden ... purchased the estate about 1811. He made great additions, and particularly the walled kitchen gardens ... “got into Chancery” ... ‘ A later occupant, 1841, was Mr McKinnon, MP for Lymington. The house was unoccupied for some years and fell into disrepair. Bought by Jules Duplessis (1834-1913) for £12,815 in 1858 and inherited by his son Jules Gaston, who passed it on to his nephew in 1956.