Breamore House
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Breamore House is an Elizabethan manor house noted for its fine collection of paintings and furniture and situated in Breamore, just north of Fordingbridge, Hampshire, England.
Breamore House was completed in 1583 by the Dodington family. The building underwent minor changes in the 18th century and underwent considerable restoration after a major fire in 1856.
Purchased in the 18th century by Sir Edward Hulse, physician to the Royal family, the home is still inhabited by the Hulse family, who became baronets (see Hulse Baronets).[1][2] Thanks to an intermarriage with Dame Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Richard Levett, the former Lord Mayor of London, the Hulse family acquired many heirlooms of the Sussex Levetts, an ancient Norman family, which are on display in the house.[3] (Levett's other daughter Frances married Thomas Lewis Esq. of St. Pierre, Monmouth, Wales; his daughter Mary married Abraham Blackborne, a London merchant who lived at Clapham, and whose son Abraham, vicar of Dagenham, married Frances Fanshawe, daughter of Thomas Fanshawe of Parsloes.)[4][5][6]
Breamore House was used as one of the locations for the 2005 film "Pride & Prejudice."
[edit] References
- ^ Breamore House, Hampshire, British History Online
- ^ History, gazeteer, and directory of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, William White, 1878
- ^ The Baronetage of England, John Debrett, 1840
- ^ The House of Commons, 1690-1715, David Hayton, 2002
- ^ Levett tombs, Kew, Richmond, British History Online
- ^ Abraham Blackbourne, Visitation of England, Joseph Jackson Howard, England College of Arms, 1906
[edit] External links
- Breamore House
- Hulse of Hampshire, John Burke, A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire
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