Kilvrough Manor
Kilvrough Manor is a large country house near Swansea. It is a Grade II* listed building. Its park is listed on the Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales.
History
The house was built for Rowland Dawkin, a member of the Gower family, in 1585.[1] In 1820, Major Thomas Penrice of Great Yarmouth acquired the manor: in June 1831 he was ordered by the Marquess of Bute, Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan, to tackle civil unrest associated with the Reform Bill.[2] To his huge embarrassment, Penrice and his Yeomanry troops were disarmed by a large mob of rioters and, following an official inquiry, the local Yeomanry unit was re-organised by the Government.[3]
The house passed to Penrice's nephew and, through the nephew's daughter, to Admiral of the Fleet Sir Algernon Lyons who died there in 1908.[4] Kilvrough Manor was inherited by Lyons's eldest surviving son Commander Algernon Edmund Penrice Lyons DSO[5] (b. 1886),[6] of Glazebrook House, South Brent, Devon, who sold it in 1920.[7]
In the 1930s it was bought by Arthur Thomas, a Swansea businessman, and in 1949 it was bought by the Oxfordshire Education Committee.[8] It is now an outdoor learning centre.[9]
The park surrounding the house is listed at Grade II on the Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales.[10]
References
- ↑ Rees, David. "Major Penrice's Dilemma". The National Library of Wales. p. 20. Retrieved 28 December 2014.
- ↑ Rees, David. "Major Penrice's Dilemma". The National Library of Wales. p. 21. Retrieved 28 December 2014.
- ↑ Rees, David. "Major Penrice's Dilemma". The National Library of Wales. p. 23. Retrieved 28 December 2014.
- ↑ "Obituary of Sir Algernon Lyons, The Times, 10 February 1908". The Times. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
- ↑ "Entry for 5 March 1918". Naval History. Retrieved 7 October 2020.
- ↑ "Entry for Algernon Edmund Penrice Lyons, The Dreadnought Project". The Dreadnought Project. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
- ↑ "Entry for Kilvrough Estate, Reference GB 216 D/D K". West Glamorgan Archives Service. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
- ↑ Rees, David. "Major Penrice's Dilemma". The National Library of Wales. p. 24. Retrieved 28 December 2014.
- ↑ "Kilvrough Manor". Oxfordshire Education Committee. Archived from the original on 27 December 2014. Retrieved 28 December 2014.
- ↑ Cadw. "Kilvrough (PGW(Gm)51(SWA))". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 6 February 2023.