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Sulgrave Manor is significant locally, nationally and internationally. This Tudor property, now much reduced in size, was largely built in a 20-year period from 1539, with an 18th century wing.
Lawrence Washington, builder of Sulgrave Manor House, was a wealthy wool merchant, Mayor of Northampton, and George Washington’s fifth great grandfather. Four generations of Washingtons lived at Sulgrave Manor until the family was forced to sell during the English Civil War.
They were royalists in Cromwell’s reign. In 1657 John Washington left England for the Colonies, and remained, marrying wealthy landowner Nathaniel Pope’s daughter. Her dowry launched him on a career as landowner, farmer and business man who eventually owned 8,500 acres. Based at Pope’s Creek in Tidewater Virginia, John Washington was First U.S. President George Washington’s great grandfather. Sulgrave Manor fell into disrepair in the 19th century, when it was occupied by a series of tenant farmers.
The Manor was partially rebuilt, restored and re-landscaped after the First World War. President William Taft and U.S. Ambassador George Harvey presided over Sulgrave Manor’s official opening in 1921.
One of the first private houses open to the public in England, Sulgrave Manor was declared a \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"centre from which sentiments of friendship and goodwill between the British and American peoples will forever radiate.\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"
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