Chapter 4 - Lady Katherine Agnes Blanche Carnegie of
Honeywood House
In 1914, Courtenay Morgan (left) bought Oakwood Grange for his
wife, Katherine, youngest of the 11 daughters of the 9th Earl of
Southesk, she renaming it Honeywood House. She grew up at
Kinnaird Castle in Angus in Scotland, the family seat. On the fringes
of royalty (her father was about 14th in line to the throne, or
something like that) as a young woman she was one of the more
lively members of the Victorian court. She had a great passion for the
arts and made friends with many of the great artistic and literary
characters of the day.
Lady Katharine Agnes Blanche Carnegie had married Courtenay
Charles Evan Morgan, the nephew of the then Lord Tredegar of
Tredegar Park in South Wales, in 1890. Thus an ancient Scottish family became linked with
an ancient Welsh one. The marriage produced two children, Evan Frederick Morgan, and
Gwyneth Ericka Morgan who died tragically young at the age of 29. The marriage was not,
however, a happy one. The artistic Katherine's temperament clashed with that of her hunting,
shooting, fishing husband and the two drifted apart, living in different houses for the most
part. That is why Katherine wanted Honeywood House, as a main home, while her husband
spent time in Wales. Just before Honeywood was bought, in 1913, Courtenay inherited a title,
becoming 3rd Baron Tredegar, and was subsequently made a Viscount in 1926 (reviving an
old title), so Katherine became Viscountess. Courtenay died in 1934, the titles then passing to
his son, Evan, who became 4th baron and 2nd Viscount. Katherine was now the Dowager
Viscountess.
Tredegar House came down in the Morgan family line for six centuries, but they claim
descent from as far back as Bledri, d. 1120. the Carnegie family claim descent from William
the Conqueror, and an earldom created in 1633.
Katherine was known as a great eccentric and society was awash with tales of her rather
curious hobby. She had a wonderful affinity for birds and made birds nests as a way to pass
the time and as a therapy for her arthritic fingers. To her they were like works of art, she
would, with great dexterity fashion twigs, moss, string, grass and mud into a quite accurate
nest. She could do different kinds. Kingfisher nests being her favourite.
Unfortunately as the years went on, she got more and more eccentric and really quite ill.
Hating the noise, she became an invalid and her eccentricities grew more pronounced. She
once made a birds nest big enough to sit in, and society grabbed such a golden opportunity
for excited gossip firmly: it was whispered that at times Lady Tredegar thought she WAS a
bird and would sit in a nest. A young Gore Vidal claimed to have heard a rumour that she
sometimes sat on eggs and got broody, which let Aldous Huxley tojoke: "If that's the case the
biggest thing she ever hatched was Evan!"
For Evan Morgan took after his mother in many ways. He
was homosexual, a poet, artist, writer and was totally
unpredictable. He also had a remarkable way with birds,
and looked strikingly avian himself. His luggage usually
contained exotic birds, and his 'familiar' Blue Boy, a large
malicious macaw would perch imperiously on its master's
shoulder (photo, left, at a Tredegar House garden party).
When his father died in 1934, Evan succeeded to the
Tredegar titles and estates. It probable he was then the owner of Honeywood House, as it was
later disposed of by the estate. His week-end house parties at Tredegar Park became quite
legendary as guests such as HG Wells, Augustus
John, Aleister Crowley and Nancy Cunard were
entertained on a lavish scale by both Evan and his
menagerie of animals, which included a boxing
kangaroo.
Katherine lived on at Honeywood. Quite how
accurate the stories are about her are is debatable.
Evan used to joke quite openly after an evening's
revelry: “You must come back and meet my
mother. She makes the most wonderful bird's nests.
We are quite a bird family!” Certainly many of the
eccentricities were exaggerated, but there was no
smoke without fire. The bird obsession is well
documented, and I was told that, at Honeywood,
Katherine would order that her dog be taken for a
'walk' in the back-seat of her chauffeur driven car.
She thought an actual walk far too dangerous for
her pet! (Paul Busby, biographer of Evan Morgan)
“Katherine herself was a very lonely figure. She
suffered from acute insomnia and became an
invalid. She did not attend her daughters funeral or
her son's wedding and was very rarely seen in
public. She had a hatred of noise and would
sometimes sit in complete darkness, or even in a
closet, to shut out the outside world. She did,
however, maintain her passion for art and
patronised such figures as Augustus John,
Ambrose McEvoy and Gaudier-Brzeska. The
portraits of Katherine hang at Tredegar House (top
left by Augustus John), who became a good friend
of both Katherine and her son. The second (bottom
left)is by Ambrose McAvoy, 1920, both on view at
Tredegar House, National Trust)
Katherine, Viscountess Tredegar died in 1949. In
her will she left a work of art to Augustus John, and explicitly stated that her ashes were NOT
to be taken to Wales!” The Friends of Tredegar House website
“Evan Frederic Morgan, 4th Baron, 2nd Viscount Tredegar, Knight of the Holy Sepulchre,
Knight of the Constantinian Order of St George, Knight of St John of Jerusalem, Knight of
Malta, Knight of the Cape and Sword to Popes Benedict XV and Pius XI, (among other titles)
was born on July 13, 1893.
Evan was the first member of the Morgan family to be Roman Catholic for centuries. He was
converted by the Archbishop of Algiers during World War I, and even went to the English
College in Rome to study for the priesthood. He never made it however, as he apparently sent
his valet into his lectures for him!
Evan married twice (despite his
homosexuality), to a film star and a
Russian Princess. On April 21 1928
he married Lois Sturt, daughter of
Baron Alington (left, engagement
1929 © National Portrait gallery).
Unfortunately she died of a heart
attack. His second wife was the
Russian Princess Olga Dolgorouky
(left, in Tatler), who he married in
1939. They divorced in 1943.
Despite his two marriages, Evan had
no children” The Friends of Tredegar House website .
Drawing of Evan, right, and below a painting, 1935,
by Henry Gates. Next page, the last known photo 1949, with his awards and medals.
After the Second World War (where, among other things
Evan was court-martialled and his marriage was disolved)
times grew grimmer for the once exuberant, brilliant,
Viscount Tredegar. Money problems started to mount and,
in 1946 he closed Tredegar Park, the ancestral home, and
moved into his London home, 13 South Audley Street, but,
within a couple of years, he closed that too, and went to live
at Honeywood House with his mother. It was there that
Evan died in 1949 aged 56 of pancreatic cancer. In his will
he left an 'iron box currently in my library at
Honeywood House' containing all his papers and books
to two friends so a biography of his exotic life could be
written. The recipient's family no longer have the
iron box (and indeed have no recollection of
receiving it) and I have been unable to trace it.
One man who worked at a publishing firm in the 1950s made it very clear that
there was NO WAY they could have published an honest account of Lord
Tredegar's life then, and even suggested tha t so scandalous was Evan's life, that
the papers in the iron box might well have gone the same wa y as Byron's, i.e.,
burnt to a frazzle to protect the not -so-innocent . Katherine died a few months after
her son Evan.” Paul Busby
"Evan Tredegar came to our house in Lancing
most Sunday afternoons to see Bosie. Sometimes
we hired a car to get him from his house
'Honeywood' near Horsham, sometimes I drove up
to get him myself. There was a wonderful Japanese
(sic, Chinese) room in the House - most beautiful
furniture. Sometimes he would bring his week-end
guest with him, I remember Terrence Rattigan and
Lord Analy, the latter I think was a Master of
Foxhounds. Evan quite often brought a bottle of
brandy for Bosie.....Apparently one young man
arriving at Honeywood said "All this and Evan
too!" Extract of letter from Sheila Colman to Paul
Busby
The inimitable Evan Morgan, poet, painter,
musician, aristocrat and millionaire. The unique
fairy prince of modern life. Aldous Huxley
“During World War II the British Secret Intelligence decided to monitor all movements of carrier pigeons in
an attempt to uncover any forms of illicit communications with the Nazis. The organization became known as MI8
and consisted of Wing-Commander Walker and Evan Morgan as its commanders.
Many people may not realize it, and find it hard to believe, but at this period of the war the question of Nazi
pigeons was taken very seriously. MI8 under Evan Morgan even devised a plan to launch a deception over the
English Channel when it was believed that a major German offensive was being planned. The goal was to drop
thousands of pigeons over the channel and fill the German lofts with more pigeons than the Nazis could handle in
the hope that it would totally confuse them, thereby slowing down any information which might be sent by the
Nazis spies.
The first attempt failed when the pigeons, after being dropped out of RAF bombers, were sucked into the plane's
slipstream and 'defeathered.' It was a disaster with thousands of pigeons instantly killed over the English channel.
The British did not immediately abandon this operation but instead sought to solve the problem rather than giving
up. It appeared the solution was simple. They decided to place each pigeon in individual paper bags before tossing
them out of the plane. It was believed that before the pigeons could free themselves they would be well below the
aircraft. This seemed to work until it was realized that they were using 'homing pigeons' which did not fly to
Belgium and France as planned. Instead they simply followed their instincts and beat the planes back to their own
base. This too was a disaster.
The whole pigeon operations met its final blow and was soon abandoned when Lord Tredegar was arrested and
thrown into the Tower of London for treason. How did this happen? It seems it was through pure stupidity. In 1943
his marriage to Princess Olga, the daughter of Prince Sergei Dolgorouky, had been annulled and Tredegar found
himself a bachelor once again. Soon afterwards he was having lunch with some pretty young girl when he decided
to show his date around the office where he worked. This of course meant his office at the top secret branch of
MI8. It was a sort of personal guided tour. To add further injury, it appears that Morgan even boasted openly about
MI8's secret operations regarding the carrier pigeons, knowing that this girl was not 'cleared' by British Intelligence
to have knowledge of such secret information. Should this be considered as a smart career move on Evan Morgan's
part? In the end another branch of British Intelligence, MI5 intervened on his behalf and got him released but he
was forced into retirement. He should have considered himself lucky.” Red Flame website
A fantasy Nancy Cunard
The one person I know who CAN give a party. Aleister Crowley
A little red absurdity, with a beak of a nose, no chin, and with the general likeness to a callow
but student bantam cock that has run to legs and neck. Virginia Woolf
The re-incarnation of Rameses. He must possess cosmic secrets. Ronald Firbank
A character straight out of fiction. Barbara Cartland
A birdlike sort of man. Possibly because his mother, the dowager Lady Tredegar, built the
biggest bird's nest in all the world...She apparently hatched nothing in it except - who knows Evan? Gore Vidal
There seems to be much wrong with him. Sir Caspar John
He tinkers. H.G. Wells (when asked about Evan's intelligence)
Sometimes suffers from a too volatile fancy in conjunction with an overactive tongue.
Augustus John
He should not have lived in this century. He should have been born in a doge's palace. Sir
Walter Monckton
He was a quite extraordinary man. For all those who would sneer and degrade Evan Morgan
in his lifetime, there would be an equal or greater army who would defend and sing his
praises. They would speak of a man who fought a constant battle against pomposity and
dullness and routed the pair of them. They would speak of acts of great kindness. Of an
incomparable host, raconteur and friend. Of a man who was always surrounded by laughter,
because he generated it himself. Fearless, impetuous and eccentric to the point of madness, he
always lived life on his terms. He was the sort of person who made life more interesting,
more fun, more exciting. He was a poet, novelist, artist, musician, gourmet, pilot, occultist,
papal chamberlain, collector, arts patron, bird tamer, journalist, parliamentary candidate,
diplomatic attaché, Major in the military, part of the secret service....the list goes on and on.
He preferred fantasy to reality and who could really blame him? His outlook on life seemed
to be: on to the next adventure, the next horizon, but, never, ever, stop moving, not for a
second. He always moved quickly and was very agile, (Augustus John suggested his
movement was very bird-like) and appeared to be constantly restless. Perhaps he was. The
lines that best sum up Evan Morgan (and perhaps the era in which he lived) for me, come
from Tennyson's Ulysses: “How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnished, not
to shine in use!” Evan Morgan was never in any danger of rust
Evan’s sister “Gwyneth [who was certainly also a visitor to
Honeywood], disappeared suddenly in December 1924 from a rented
house at The Niche, 2 Lancaster Avenue, Wimbledon, South London.
She was last seen alive on 10 December 1924. Her body was only found
5 months later on 20 May 1925, on the River Thames at Pocock Wharf,
near Rotherhithe, Southwark.
Gwyneth's circle of friends ranged from Buckingham Palace, St George's
Chapel Windsor, to many of those across the high ranking scene of
Edwardian and later London Society, on the London stage, to the depths
of dens in Limehouse's Chinatown.” Monty Dart and Will Cross
A Beautiful Nuisance The Life and death of the Hon Gwyneth Ericka
Morgan, Monty Dart & William Cross, 2012
Why Gwyneth Morgan died is and will remain a mystery, but the
odds are on an overdose of drugs in one of the Thames bank
opium dens that set up after the criminalization of drugs in 1917.
She was born in 1895, so was Evan’s younger sister, and 29 years
old. She was already in a bad place as for several years she had
moved between rented various accommodation, had gambled
more than was reasonable for her class, had consorted with those
of a distinctly lower class, ignoring warnings from family and
friends, and in medical care. This lifestyle did not allow her much
time to spend in Rudgwick. Her brother also left a trail of lost
lives in his wake. Their generation of aristocratic friends led a life
of extraordinary shortness and endings of unfortunate kinds. How
Evan escaped both prison and death is itself extraordinary.
The Times, 28 April 1949 – an antidote to opinions elsewhere in this chapter
VISCOUNT TREDEGAR A MODERN DILETTANTE
Viscount Tredegar, who died at his home near Horsham yesterday [27 April 1949]at the age of 55, was a
man of many parts to whom the word dilettante may appropriately be applied. Sir Evan Frederick Morgan,
second Viscount and fourth Baron Tredegar, of Tredegar, in the County of Monmouth, in the Peerage of the
United Kingdom, and a baronet, was born on July 13, 1893, the only son of the third Lord Tredegar, who in
1926 was created a viscount. His mother was Lady Katherine Agnes Blanche, youngest daughter of the
ninth Earl of Southesk. He was educated at Eton and at Christ Church, Oxford, and in 1915 he was gazetted
to the Welsh Guards.
From 1917 to 1918 he was private secretary to the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of
Labour, and in 1919 to Sir George (afterwards Lord) Riddell when he represented the British Press at the
Paris Peace Conference. In this year he resigned his com- mission owing to ill-health. Shortly after the war
he Was received into the Church of Rome, and was in due course made a Privy Chamberlain of the Sword
and Cape by Pope Benedict XV and continued in the same office under Pope Pius Xl. In 1929 he contested
the Limehouse division of Stepney in the Unionist interest but was not successful, and in 1930 was adopted
as Conservative candidate for the central division of Cardiff; he withdrew in favour of the National Labour
candidate, Sir Ernest Bennett. For a time he was Hon. Attache at his Majesty's Legation at Copenhagen.
In 1934 he succeeded his father as second Viscount Tredegar. The family had large coal interests
which he inherited. Not long afterwards, however, he spoke at Newport, Monmouthshire, and strongly
advocated the abolition of mining royalties. Lord Tredegar was gifted and versatile. He painted cleverly and
when quite young exhibited at the Paris Salon. Having a considerable taste for verse he published several
books of poems. He was in addition a good musician. He took, indeed, a wide interest in aesthetic matters
and was a keen collector of objets d'art particularly of the period of the Italian Renaissance. In 1936 he
founded the Tredegar Memorial Lecture of the Royal Society of Literature. of which he was a Fellow, and
delivered the inaugural lecture himself, choosing John Donne as his subject. He was also a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Arts and a member of the Union Internationale des Beaux Arts et des Lettres. In the
193945 war he was Military County Social Welfare Officer for Monmouthshire and commanded the 3rd
Monmouthshire Battalion of the Home Guard.
In 1928, he married the Hon. Lois Sturt, younger daughter of the second Lord Alington The
wedding, which took place at the Brompton Oratory, was celebrated by the Archbishop of Cardiff. Nine
years later Lady Tredegar died suddenly at Budapest while on a holiday tour. Secondly, in 1939, he married
Princess Olga, daughter of Prince Serge Dolgorouky. The marriage was annulled in 1943. He leaves no
issue and the viscountcy becomes extinct.
His uncle the Hon. F. G. Morgan, who was raised to the rank of a baron's son in 1913, succeeds to
the barony. He married, in 1898, Dorothy Syssyllt, daughter of Mr. R. T. Bassett. There were two children
of the marriage, which was dissolved in 1921, a son and daughter.
“By 1949, the Morgans of Tredegar had become one of the most heavily taxed families in
the country. Some £4,500,000 had been paid in death duties in the 20th century. After the
death of Evan, Viscount Tredegar, in 1949 (and his burial at Buckfast Abbey) an elderly
uncle, Frederic George Morgan, succeeded to the title of Baron Tredegar. Frederic was 76
years old and crippled with osteo-arthritis. The spectre of yet more death duties loomed large.
Frederic, to avoid these, immediately passed the Tredegar estate onto his son, John, whilst
keeping the title for himself. Indeed, John, The Times announced on 31 May, would go to
Honeywood House, which would be his home until further notice. Frederic, 5th Baron
Tredegar retired back to his Mayfair flat leaving John Morgan to assess the situation. John
decided that "due to death duties, heavy taxation and increasing costs" the ancestral home
was to be closed. In 1951 Tredegar House and 200 acres of immediate land were sold to the
Sisters of St Josephs, an order of Roman Catholic nuns, who converted it into a school. Most
of the contents of the House were sold and John looked for a fresh start abroad. In 1954, the
death of his father meant that John became the 6th and last Baron Tredegar. By this time John
was married and living in the tax-haven of Monte Carlo.
Back home, the remnants of the once mighty Tredegar Estate were being sold-off. J.C
Deakin, the final Estate Agent oversaw the sale of the Morgan's remaining property. Along
with Tredegar House went Honeywood House in Dorking (sic) and some 53,000 acres of
land. In essence it was the liquidation of an estate that had taken the Morgans centuries to
obtain. As the Morgan lands were dispersed, the possessions that once sat at Tredegar House
and Ruperra Castle auctioned off and the Tredegar Estate offices shut, so the book was closed
on a long passage of the history of South East Wales. John Morgan, 6th Baron Tredegar died
childless in 1962 aged 54. His death signalled the end of the Morgans of Tredegar.” The
Friends of Tredegar House website
Kelly’s Directory 1915 had listed Lord Tredegar as ‘private resident’ at Honeywood House,
along with his Clubs, and two London addresses. In later years, the Viscountess is listed in
her own right. From study of maps it seems that the Morgans made no obvious additions or
changes to the house and other buildings during the 35 years the family owned it.
Internally, however, the room in the forward projection of the south wing was decorated with
Chinese lacquer panels. These were not removed until the present trustees needed money for
re-roofing the entire building, and they were sold as a major contribution to the cost. Though
understandable, it is sad to know they have gone. The room has also lost its integrity with a
dividing stud wall to create better office accommodation. Fortunately the other principal
rooms (entrance hall, staircase, drawing room and dining room) are intact.
Chinese Room, Honeywood House, photographed before removal of antique lacquer panels
Honeywood House estate had been offered for sale through Knight, Frank & Rutley as a
single lot, (advertisement in The Field, September 1946) three years before the death of
Katherine and Evan but did not sell. A second attempt followed (undated sale particulars,
below, possibly 1949 – “until recently the home of the late Viscount Tredegar”). At this time,
only 6.5 acres were offered with the house, thus excluding even the kitchen garden, a sale for
straightened times, possibly for institutional purposes, which of course is exactly what has
become of it. The curious reference to demolition of a wing probably refers to the rear wing
referred to in Chapter 2 as a possible addition to the servants accommodation by William
Renton.
Some Images of Honeywood
An important photo taken in the sunken
rose garden (still there) dated c1945,
from the collection of the Carnegie
family (Viscountess Tredegar’s family),
possibly the only photo of the house to
survive from the Tredegar era. The
blinds are an interesting feature of the
south front. There is as yet no
conservatory, added by Miller and
Bellord in the 1950s, illustrated below.
In the image are, from left, Susan &
Andrew Carnegie and Evan, Viscount
Tredegar.
This image comes from the Kinnaird
Collection [Kinnaird Castle was the
home of the Carnegie family, Earls of
Southesk]. It is therefore associated
firmly with the Tredegar era. The
addition of the conservatory is
interesting, as it dates the photo to the
?late Tredegar era, which may suggest
the photo above is older than it is stated
to be.
A view south
from the
terrace and
gardens,
enjoyed by
the Duchess
of San
Teodoro and
her
successors.
The house is
Honey Lane
Farm. The
foreground
was almost
certainly part
of her estate.
The sunken rose garden as it is in recent photographs; one of the millstones, possibly from the former
Snell windmill, left.
The stable clock, left, was
renewed, “built”, by the
Tredegar estate as soon as
1916, and worked until 1939,
after which it remained
gathering dirt and birds until
1984 when it was taken down,
restored, and brought indoors
to a corner of the great hall
where it resides now. The bell,
however, was installed by the Duchess of Teodoro at the time of her renovations and extensions –
dated on the bell itself, 1886. The total weight of the whole is ¼ ton.
Above, some curious features remaining in the gardens, which likely date back to the Tredegar years,
or earlier. Left, a 3-person stone toilet, a stone seat, a pump at the side of the house.
Above, the garages added by Duchess of San Teodoro; stable block with clock tower, dating back to
the Renton era, but converted to staff flats by Miller & Bellord; Ernest George’s 1890s solution to
access from the north carriage drive to the front of the house was this elegant arch under the
servant’s rooms.
The lodges: left the
older South Lodge,
right the North
(Monks) Lodge,
with Teodoro crest
in the top of the
gable.
What remains of the extensive walled
gardens, glasshouses and frames to the north
of the house. These would have been in full
production to the 1950s, as the photo from the
1954 sale catalogue shows. Water was laid on
for the gardeners’ use.
The front door is said to be
Italian, perhaps installed in
the 1890s by the Duchess of
San Teodoro.
The Sale of the House and Estate
Coming soon!
Record office SP 2269 1949
Honeywood House. Photographs, estate plan
Estate, South & North Lodges, Rose Cottages, Honeybush
Cottages
SP2269 in W Sussex Record Office details the attempted sale of the whole estate of 170 acres
in September 1949, vacant possession except for 52 acres (presumably Mr Sumners tenancy
at Honeybush, as in 1954.). It must not have sold in the very difficult market of the post-war
years. As a result of the failure of the sale, and the sale of Tredgar Park, John Morgan made a
further announcement that Honeywood was his permanent home, 22 August 1950. However,
in 1952 he moved to Scotland, leaving the house unoccupied.
The growing death
duty crisis forced a
sale in 1954, when
the estate of 172
acres was split up
into eleven lots.
The 1954 Sale
Catalogue
WEST SURREY-SUSSEX BORDERS. Horsham 5 miles Dorking 12 miles London I5 miles.
HONEYWOOD HOUSE ESTATE ROWHOOK A FINE COUNTRY RESIDENCE
suitable for scholastic or institutional purposes or for conversion; in an unspoilt position with
southerly views; it contains lounge, hall, 4 reception rooms, 17 principal bed and dressing
rooms, 6 bath rooms; central heating, mains electricity and water; garages for 12 cars, ample
stabling; 2 lodges; 2 cottages; small farm; blocks of productive farmland; valuable woodland.
TOTAL AREA 172 ACRES.
For SALE by AUCTION, as a whole or in 10 Lots, at the Black Horse Hotel Horsham on
Tuesday 20tb July at 3p.m. (unless previously sold privately).
Solicitors. Messrs. Rider, Heaton, Meredith & Mills. S New Square, Lincoln's Inn, W.C.2.
Auctioneers. KING and CHASEMORE. Horsham (Tel. 111). and KNIGHT. FRANK &
RUTLEY.
Lot 1, the house with 8¾ acres of grounds, with lowest acceptable price £4,500, was sold to
new owners who rented to proprietors Messrs Sidney (Jim) Miller and John Bellord who set
up a registered charity for a luxury Convalescent Nursing Hotel. The owners subsequently
bought another 8 acres (Lot 9?)
Lot 2 South Lodge
Lot 3 Honeybush Cottage, with 55 acres of farmland and woodland (house and farmland
let to Mr J Sumner on a yearly tenancy, rent £76 pa, woodland in hand)
Lot 4 Oakwood Wood and Frenches Copses, 53 acres
Lot 5 North Lodge (purchased in 1954 by Sir Rex Cohen of Ruckmans Farm Estate, which
included Monks Farm, for his farm bailiff.
Lot 6 Woodland area to north west, 4 acres
Lot 7 Woodland area to north west, 4 acres (where Tanglewood is now)
Lot 8 Farmland and woodland to the south of the house, 35 acres (was Honey Lane Farm,
the house not being part of the estate), conveyed to Lord Tredegar in 1914.
Lot 9 Two grass fields with buildings to the south adjoining Honey Lane, 8 acres (now
Honeyghyll Farm), conveyed to Lord Tredegar in 1914.
Lot 10 A semi-detached cottage with garden, 1 acre, occupied by Mr P Geering, gardener,
on a service tenancy (Southern Rose)
Lot 11 A semi-detached cottage with garden, 3 acres, occupied by Miss Stanford, former
employee, life tenancy, rent free (Rose Cottage).