History & Ownership
In October 2003, Dee Ludlow purchased the Hall together
with its hotel, restaurant and health club. A well known and professional
hotelier with thirty years' experience in hotel management particularly in
several prestigious London properties.
The Hall's reception and dining rooms have now been
refurbished to reflect their original grandeur, especially the impressive Grand Salon
which has had the magnificent chandelier and Gold Leaf rose restored.
Chronology
HENRY VI
|
1454 |
John Timperley I bought the main
Hintlesham manor from Sir John Fortescue, a famous judge who had held it
only six years. The Timperleys held it till 1720. |
| RICHARD III
|
1483 |
Richard III created John Howard, of
nearby Stoke-by-Nayland, the first of the Howard Dukes of Norfolk. He
was slain two years later, fighting on the wrong side at the Battle of
Bosworth. |
HENRY VIII
|
1514 |
Thomas Howard (1443 - 1524) created 2nd
Duke of Norfolk after his part at Flodden. |
| c.1523 |
William Timperley married Margaret,
daughter of Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke. |
ELIZABETH I
|
c.1575-1579 |
Their son, Thomas Timperley I
(c.1524-1594) was Controller of the Household to Thomas Howard, 4th Duke
of Norfolk (who was executed in 1572). As members of the Howard
household, the Timperley family would have rebuilt Hintlesham Hall in
c.1578 as a more permanent home after the disgrace of the Howards. |
JAMES I
|
1608 |
Thomas Timperley I married c.1558
Ethelreda Hare and their son (who had nine sisters) was the first member
of the family convicted of Catholic recusancy. |
| CHARLES II
|
c.1660 |
Timperleys began mortgaging estates to
support relatives in Roman Catholic communities abroad. |
JAMES II
|
c.1686 |
Henry Timperley II married Susanna,
daughter of Sir John Sparrow, Clerm of the Green Cloth and Cofferer to
King James II in exile at St. Germain. Henry and Susanna built grand new
apartments in the south wing at Hintlesham before they left England
c.1689. |
| WILLIAM AND MARY |
1690
|
Henry Timperley III, born in
France after his father's death. |
ANNE
|
1711 |
Henry Timperley III married Ethelreda,
daughter of Sir William Mannock of Stoke-by-Nayland (Gifford's Hall).
She died before 1714. Henry, childless began dispersal of Timperley
Estates. |
| GEORGE I |
1720 |
Henry sold Hintlesham to Richard Powys,
a Principal Clerk of the Treasury, who began improvements to the house. |
| 1724 |
His son, Richard Powys II, succeeded and
began an expensive conversion of Hintlesham Hall that cost him his
fortune. |
| GEORGE II |
1747 |
Hintlesham bought by Richard Lloyd who
became Solicitor-General. |
| 1750s |
Gainsborough painted the Lloyd children.
 |
| VICTORIA |
1837 |
James Hamilton Lloyd-Anstruther
inherited Hintlesham Hall. |
| EDWARD VII |
1882 1909 |
Colonel Robert Hamilton Lloyd-Anstruther
succeeded to Hintlesham; he sold it to Sir Gerald Ryan, Bt. |
| GEORGE VI |
1939 |
Mr Anthony Stokes bought the Hall.
During World War II it was a Red Cross Hospital. |
| ELIZABETH II |
1972 |
Robert Carrier bought Hintlesham Hall
and restored it. He ran it as a flourishing restaurant and cookery
school. |
| 1984 |
David & Ruth Watson were the next
owners for a period of six years during which they applied great
imagination and skill to the establishment of hotel business. |
| 1990 |
David Allan bought the Hall and commenced
a period of major improvements. A dramatic new clubhouse was built in
1991, winning a national architectural award, to serve the excellent
golf course which lies adjacent to the Hall. The year 2000 saw the
opening of "Hintlesham Health and Fitness". These modern
additions enhance the business necessary to preserve and constantly
refurbish the fabric of the Hall without impinging on it's integrity as
a Great House. |
| 2003 |
Dee Ludlow bought the Hall and looks
forward to welcoming you to this magnificent Country House. |
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