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[opelman]

Tortoiseshell by Treflyn Lloyd-Roberts Via Flickr: Small Tortoiseshell butterfly at the National Trust's Greys Court, Rotherfield Greys, near Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire.

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Bees collect pollen from the last of the dahlia flowers on an autumnal afternoon at Greys Court, a National Trust property at Rotherfield Greys, near Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire

Photograph: Geoffrey Swaine/Shutterstock

[venicepearl]

Greys Court is a Tudor country house and gardens in the southern Chiltern Hills at Rotherfield Greys, near Henley-on-Thames in the county of Oxfordshire, England. Now owned by the National Trust, it is located at grid reference SU725834, and is open to the public.

[scotianostra]

3rd September 1918 saw the death of author and pioneering woman doctor, Margaret Todd.

For a woman who accomplished so much Margaret Todd is still relatively unknown by most people in her native Scotland. Born Margaret Georgina Todd on 23rd April 1859 in Kilrenny, a wee village just north of Anstruther on the East Neuk of Fife. Todd was educated in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Berlin.

A Glaswegian schoolteacher, in 1886 Todd became one of the first students at the Edinburgh School of Medicine for Women after hearing that the Scottish Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons had opened their exams to women. She took eight years to complete the four-year course because, using the pseudonym Graham Travers, during her studies she wrote a novel, Mona Maclean, Medical Student. This was described by Punch magazine as “a novel with a purpose — no recommendation for a novel, more especially when the purpose selected is that of demonstrating the indispensability of women-doctors”.

After graduating in 1894 she took her MD in Brussels and was appointed Assistant Medical Officer at Edinburgh Hospital and Dispensary for Women and Children but retired after five years.Her first book having been exceptionally well received and into further editions, she published Fellow Travellers and Kirsty O’ The Mill Toun in 1896, followed by Windyhaugh in 1898, always using her male pen name, although by 1896 reviewers were calling her “Miss Travers”. By 1906 even her publishers added “Margaret Todd, MD” in parentheses after her pseudonym. In addition to six novels she wrote short stories for magazines.

Despite their nineteen-year age difference, Todd was the romantic partner of Dr Sophia Jex-Blake, founder of Dr Todd’s university and place of employment. Upon Jex-Blake’s retirement in 1899, they moved to Windydene, in Rotherfield, where she wrote further two novels. When her partner died she wrote, under own name, The Life of Dr Sophia Jex-Blake, a book described as ‘almost too laboriously minute for the general reader’.

Margaret Todd’s other claim to fame results from circumstances that are rather elusive. It seems she was a family friend of the chemist Frederick Soddy. At some point he described to her his work on radioactive elements that have more than one atomic mass, although the chemical properties are identical and they share the same place in the periodic table. He was apparently having trouble coming up with a satisfactory name. It is said that Margaret told him he needed a good Greek term: perhaps, she suggested, he should try “isotope” from the Green for “same place”. Frederick Soddy went on to win the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1921, and has a (small) crater on the Moon named after him. He would doubtless have achieved these honours using a different name for the subject of his work, but it is good that the long-standing assumption that he coined the work “isotope” has been corrected in recent years.

Margaret Todd died at the age of 59, just three months after her biography on her partner Sophia Jex-Blake was published. According to one source, she died by suicide; her Times obituary states only that she died in a nursing home in London. After her death, a scholarship was created in her name at the LSMW. She left £3,000 in her will (equivalent to £279,000 in 2019) to be used to promote the advancement of women in medicine.

Read more on Doctor Margaret Todd here https://conscicom.web.ox.ac.uk/article/margaret-todd-1859-1918-medical-woman-and-author

[lya-dustin]

So Osferth gets 7 estates in Sussex in Alfred’s will.

These are

Beckley: near the southern coast and Kent which was the center of Christianity in the UK

Rotherfield: east Sussex a royal hunting estaste owned by Alfred known for its oak forests and being the source of the river Rother

Ditchling: rumored to have been the first capital of the Saxon Kingdom. the Roman Greensand Road that connects to London passes by it, loacted in East Susesx. Also has Wings Palace, the saxon manor Anne of Cleves lived in after her divorce and was supposedly built by Alfred of Wessex

Sutton: i couldn't really find anything save that it is home to a very specific species of cricket

Lyminster: another royal hunting estaste of Alfred’s. Home to 11th century church, St. Mary of Magdalene known for its six bells(which their oldest pub is named after) and burial place to St. Cuthflaed of Lyminster(whom the saxon kings are related to) also has a knuckerhole where a knight slayed a water dragon and his tomb is a slab on the church called the Slayer's Slab. Near the coast as well

Angerming: has the remains of a roman villa and a bathhouse meaning it was occupied by a wealthy roman citizen. Also has all these ways its called: Angemeringatun, Angmerengatum, Angemaeringum, Angemeringe, Aingmarying, Angmarrying, Angemare and Ameringe. (This village has as many name variations as Osferth) near the coast as well

Felpham: by the coast in the same district as Angerming and except that it was partially given to Edward’s third wife, nothing else is there about it.

Edit 10/4/23: he was also given 100 pounds of silver, which made him perhaps the richest non royal ealdorman then.

[canesenzafissadimora]

Alle volte tra andare e tornare le differenze si sentono non solo per una discesa o una salita. Alle volte sono altre ragioni a pesare. Le cose che ci si porta dentro, le persone che si lasciano alle spalle. In un’estate assolata del 1911, il filosofo inglese Bertrand Russell si ritrovò ogni mattina a partire con la sua bici dal piccolo centro di Ipsden per andare a Rotherfield Peppard, il paese dove trascorreva le vacanze Ottoline, la donna di cui si era improvvisamente innamorato. Russell rimaneva lì tutto il giorno ma non poteva restare a dormire da lei perché aveva siglato un accordo con la sua ex moglie e l’ex marito di lei. Gli concedevano d’incontrarsi, ma gli vietavano di trascorrere la notte sotto lo stesso tetto. Nessuno meglio di lui, si può dire con certezza, dovette comprendere quanto può essere incomparabilmente diversa una palpitante andata mattiniera da un ritorno solitario mentre alle spalle ci si lascia chi ci vorrebbe ancora vicino a lei.

Federico Pace, "Senza volo"

[mybeingthere]

Gary Bunt paints a man and  his best friend who are together, keeping friendship in the English countryside. Touching and a little sad. 

Gary Bunt’s journey has been an unconventional one. Born into a working-class Kentish family, he always loved painting and poetry but was obliged by circumstance to seek a less creative living. “At 16 you had to get a job and bring home some housekeeping,” says Gary from his home in Rotherfield. 

“That was the way I was brought up, and further education would have been considered an extreme luxury.”Instead, while pursuing a career in the building trade, he opted for private study, with particular focus on some of the great 20th century British painters: Christopher Wood, the Nicholsons, Stanley Spencer. He taught himself to paint in an impressionist tonal style, always fitting it in around his work commitments until in 1999 Gary went home to his wife and told her he wanted to make a go of the painting. All was going well until, in the same week as his first solo show, he was diagnosed with cancer and was seriously ill for 18 months. 

“I sailed pretty close to the wind and I was reminiscing, thinking about my childhood, my children and my marriage. As soon as I could paint again, it was those things I started to paint,” he says. Remarkably, his style changed entirely, settling on the naïve rural whimsy now so beloved of collectors.“My work is based around what I would call typical British country life and it has all evolved around things I grew up with and still love to this day,” says Gary. 

“The village I live in, Rotherfield, is almost like going back in time 30 years. There’s still a really lovely sense of village life. I try to impart that feeling with the paintings.” The old man depicted in Gary’s paintings is, he says, an avatar for himself and his father, but many see in him their own loved ones. “People are reminiscing about their own lives through my paintings. I think a lot of people find them a form of escapism. I have seen people walk around my exhibitions and laugh at a painting, and then cry at the next one. It seems they are going on an emotional journey, and that really moves me. I think that’s why the paintings have had the success they’ve had.”

https://www.artnet.com/artists/gary-bunt/sussexlife.co.uk

[suspiciousmindsxo]

Lisa Marie was serving up fish and chips alongside her 19-year-old son Benjamin and van owner Justin Scales in the village of Rotherfield, East Sussex

[projectourworld]

Bees collect pollen from the last of the dahlia flowers on an autumnal afternoon at Greys Court, a National Trust property at Rotherfield Greys, near Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire

Photograph: Geoffrey Swaine/Shutterstock / Guardian #love #bees 🐝🐝🐝

[thedudleywomen]

ON THIS DAY - 06 November 1543

On This Day (06 Nov) in 1543, Lettice Knollys was born at Greys Court, Rotherfield Greys, Oxon.

Lettice was the 3rd child of Francis Knollys, one of Henry VIII's Gentleman Pensioners (Royal Bodyguards) and Catherine Carey, the daughter of Mary Boleyn, and cousin of the future Elizabeth I. The couple appear to have met at court in Nov 1539, as Catherine had been appointed as a lady-in-waiting to Henry VIII's new wife, Anne of Cleves.

Greys Court is a Tudor Manor House built on the manor of Rotherfield Greys; this manor was initially granted to Francis's parents Robert Knollys and Lettice Peniston by Henry VIII in 1514, for the annual rent of one red rose, payable at midsummer 🌹

Following Francis's marriage to Catherine in 1540, the couple were known to have taken up residence at Greys Court, granted to the couple by the King and an Act of Parliament, where they raised their young family - there would be a further 11/12 children born to the couple, including Elizabeth (b.1549) who joined her mother and older sister at court on the ascension on Elizabeth I in Nov 1558.

Francis and Catherine were supporters of the new Reformed religion, and welcomed the changes that came during Edward VI's reign. The Knollys children were educated at Greys Court, with tutors including Julins/Julius Palmer, a former fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, who was later burnt at the stake in Newbury, Berkshire in Jul 1556, following his conviction as a Protestant heretic, as a "sower of sedition, and a procurer of unlawful assemblie".

Following Mary I's ascension in Jul 1553, there were significant changes for the Knollys family, due to the introduction of Mary's Catholic policies. Francis leaves England for Geneva in Sep 1554, taking his eldest son Henry with him; his wife Catherine and the five youngest children later join them in 1557, and they spend the next couple years on the Protestant-friendly continent, only returning on the death of Mary, and accession of Catherine's cousin Elizabeth, with whom she has been close throughout her life.

Lettice does not appear to have travelled abroad with her parents, with speculation that she may have been placed within Elizabeth's household at Hatfield House during this period.

[oliviabaker3115]

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[myhanssolo]

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[royston-du-maurier-lebek]

Rotherfield Ave at the junction of no 11. Hastings West Hill

[intriguingpeoplebyangelafloyd]

CATHERINE CAREY

CATHERINE CAREY

Daughter of Mary Boleyn

c.1524-1569

            Catherine Carey is the daughter of Mary Boleyn and William Carey, Mary Boleyn is the sister of Anne Boleyn, Queen of England. Carey’s mother Mary was considered to be a great beauty in the French and English courts and married William Carey a wealthy courtier in 1520, Henry VIII attended their wedding ceremony. Mary became Henry VIII’s mistress whilst the king was married to his first wife Catherine of Aragon, the affair didn’t last long. Mary and William had two children Catherine Carey and Henry Carey. William Carey fell victim to the sweating sickness in 1528.

            Henry VIII fell in love with Mary’s sister, Anne Boleyn and they married in 1533 and had a daughter Princess Elizabeth (Elizabeth I) in 1533. Henry VIII was unhappy in his marriage with Anne, and she was beheaded in 1536 for treason. Catherine Carey had allegedly stayed overnight in the Tower of London to keep Anne Boleyn company and it was said that she had witnessed the execution.

            Henry VIII remarried Jane Seymour who soon died after childbirth to Henry’s first legit son, Edward. Henry then married Anne of Cleves and then to Catherine Howard, Carey was Maid of Honour to both.

            Carey married Sir Francis Knollys in 1540 and was called ‘Mistress Knollys’ and ‘Lady Knollys’. They lived in London as well as Reading, Berkshire as well as Rotherfield Greys, Oxfordshire. After the death of Henry VIII, his protestant son Edward became king. Edward made his cousin Lady Jane Grey his heir before his death, and not long after Mary I became queen, who was a Catholic. Carey and Knollys were both Protestants and had to flee to Germany, and were invited back after Mary died and Elizabeth became queen. Carey was appointed Chief Lady of the Bedchamber; she was senior amongst the other ladies and was most likely pregnant during this time.

            Carey died in 1569, in her late 40’s at Hampton Court Palace and was outlived by her husband. She is buried at St Edmund’s Chapel, Westminster Abbey. Carey gave birth to more than ten children in her life time. Her daughter Lettice Knollys got married to Elizabeth I’s favourite, Robert Dudley.

#catherinecarey #maryboleyn #anneboleyn

[littleprincejd]

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[chrismbr]

Unexpected Victorian mansion in the backstreets of #Elwood with an unusual #Modernist addition: Rotherfield, later Sherwood Hall, by David C. Askew (of Twentyman & Askew) 1890-91, for Joseph Symes, co-owner of The Age newspaper. His widow moved out in the late ‘20s and it was converted to flats in 1943 when the modernist part was added. (at Elwood, Victoria, Australia) https://www.instagram.com/p/Clw_MkHype8/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=