Dale Park

Dale Park, Sussex (John Preston Neale, 1829)

Dale Park was an English country house in Madehurst, West Sussex.

People

In 1780 Sir George Thomas, 3rd Baronet created Dale Park near Madehurst by buying up separate pieces of land and joining them together into an estate. He married Sophia Montagu, daughter of Admiral John Montagu and Sophia Wroughton, on 20 December 1782. The lived in Madehurst Lodge during the 1780s whilst their new house was constructed by the architect Joseph Bonomi. The house is thought to have still been under construction in 1791.[1]

In 1802 John Abel Smith who was a financier and politician, was born here. He was the elder son of John Smith (1767–1842) who was an MP.[2]

It was also the birthplace of the writer Theodora Elizabeth Lynch in 1813. She was the daughter of Mary Ann and Arthur Foulks.[3] Foulks owned 400 slaves and a sugar plantation in Jamaica.[4]

The house was demolished circa 1960.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Dale House, Madehurst, Parks and Gardens, Retrieved 16 April 2017
  2. ↑ Jacob M. Price, ‘Smith, John Abel (1802–1871)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 accessed 16 April 2017
  3. ↑ Thomas W. Krise, ‘Lynch , Theodora Elizabeth (1812–1885)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 16 April 2017
  4. ↑ Compensation for slaves, UCL, retrieved 31 January 2015
  5. ↑ "Dale Park". Lost Heritage. Retrieved 14 April 2017.

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