HISTORIC MANSION SOLD.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 575, 2 August 1909, Page 5

HISTORIC MANSION SOLD.

; HOLME LACY.; • (By . Telegraph.—Press Aesoclatlon.-Popyrleht.j '■'■' ' London; July 30. Sir Robert Lucas-Tooth,, .formerly of Sydney,' has purchased the Earl of Chesterfield's historical country house of Holme Lacy, in Herefordshire, and 3400 acres. The entire property, consisting of 5542 acres, had been previously ■ submitted to auction,. and elicited a bid of £210,000, but failed to reach the reserve. - - : ' , : . WHERE POPE WROTE HIS "MAN OF •■•.'..■ . ROSS." ■ • v It i s npt often that an historic mansion of. the importance of Holino tho. ]3arl of Chcsterlicld's country' , seat, in the most picturesque part of Herefordshire, comes into the public market. Alexander Popb wrote his '-•slan of, Kosa" at Holme Lacy, and : Grinling. GibbonS decorated the principal rooms of the mansion with magnificent wood carvings, which riyal his wonderful work at Petworth. and Ghatsivorth. •.-; ...'.. .-■■.--. Holme Lacy has passed from generation'to generation of the same family ever since. Walter do Lacv settled there in the days of William the Conqueror and sinco, in the reign of Edward lll,'Thomas Scudamore' obtained the de Lacy estates with the hand of Clarice de Lacy. One pf the Soudamores, Sir James, was immortiUiscd by Spenser in', the "Faerie Queene," and his son John was created barpriet and viscount, and entertained Charles I at Holme Lacy after Alarston.Mo.br and Naseby, for which act he had to suffer severe consequences. .: ■Tho'property "as originally' submitted at auction, with its full 5512 acres, had a rentroll of over iSiOOO. purchaser, Sir E. Lucas-Tooth;' is chairman of directors pf the London Board of the Bank of New South Wales. In the 'eighties he represented Monaro New South Wales, in the Stato Parliament, and in 1879 was on the Council of the Sydney Exhibition. He returned to England in 1889, and in 1895 unsuccessfully contested a seat in! the Conservative interest in the Home Parliament. . • : '