Ragman's Castle
LAWN COTTAGE
Riverside, Twickenham
| Built on a long strip of land running up Orleans Road, adjacent to the Orleans House Estate. Might have been “the great new house in the lane” of Richard Ell as listed in the 1661 parish survey. | |
| Site of an ale house known as The Dog and Partridge | |
| 1635 | Lady Falkland (1585-1639) [Glover’s map]. Widow of Sir Henry Cary, 1st Viscount (d1633) |
| 1710 | James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensbury (1662-1711) |
| c1720 | an Ale House called The Dog & Partridge |
| ?house rebuilt or renamed Ragman’s Castle | |
| 1740 | *John, 2nd Duke of Montagu (1690-1749) |
| 1742 | Annabella a’Court & Matilda Repington admitted as co-heirs of Jane Vernon dec’d |
| 1749 | ?*Commodore Digby Dent |
| *John Colcroft Esq | |
| 1751 | *Mary, Dowager Countess of Pembroke (1707-69) |
| 1755 | William Pritchard (d1763); Hannah Pritchard (1711-68) |
| 1763 | *Maria, Lady Waldegrave & 3 daughters |
| 1768 | Judith Spilsbury, Tamara Hurrell & Hannah Lloyd, by inheritance from Hannah Pritchard |
| 1769 | Elizabeth Hurrell, wife of Alan |
| 1772 | Thomas Vaughan |
| 1773 | Lady Bridget Lane (d1796), widow of the Hon George Fox Lane, who married:; Captain the Hon John Tollemache RN (d1777), to Colne Lodge in 1776 |
| 1774 | John Sydenham (1693-1775), JP |
| 1776 | George, 3rd Earl of Cholmondeley (1724-64), George, styled Viscount Malpas, heir to the 3rd Earl Cholmondeley who d1770 |
| 1776 | ?Hester Malpas Viscountess Cholmondeley (1727-94), late Sydenham . Died at Hampton Court Palace |
| 1777 | Sir Charles Warwick Bampfylde (1753-1823) MP |
| 1778 | Robert Mayne |
| 1783 | George Hardinge M P & Judge (1743-1816) |
| 1808 | *Jeremiah Dyson |
| Mr Bannister | |
| 1810 | Mr & Mrs Henry Cole (from Folly House) |
| 1814 | Major Jelf Sharp |
| 1818 | Alicia Tyndall Palmer & W V Palmer (EnclosureAward) |
| Richard King | |
| 1833 | Richard Meade King tenant for life under will of Richard King |
| 1846 | described as "Mr Impey's Cottage and Garden" on a watercolour by J B Papworth |
| 1848 | Lord Kilmorey (living in Orleans House) |
| 1850 | House demolished |
Note: * signifies tenant or lessee of property, where known. Many of the dates noted are "spot" dates taken from rate books, directories, Enclosure Award, maps, or other sources and may not indicate arrival or departure of an occupier. Occupation is shown chronologically although some exact dates have not yet been ascertained.
