Ealing Grove Explained
Ealing Grove was a mansion and estate in Ealing, Middlesex, west London, England. It was adjacent to the Ealing House estate, but distinct from it, and stood amongst trees.[1]
The house was converted into an Italianate villa by the younger Joseph Gulston in the 1770s.[1] It was demolished circa 1850.
Owners and tenants
- From 1608, Sir William Fleetwood as tenant
- John Maynard as tenant
- 1657 Joseph and Sarah Wadlowe acquired it from Sir Thomas Soame and his son Stephen
- 1675 acquired by Robert Welstead
- Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers to 1712
- Bessy, wife of Frederick Nassau de Zuylestein, 3rd Earl of Rochford, owner in 1722
- Richard Savage Nassau, who sold it in 1746
- 1750 Mary Swift and Amy Peters
- 1754 Capt Edward Hughes
- 1755–1766 Joseph Gulston, snr, M.P. for Poole (bought and occupied)
- 1766–1775 Joseph Gulston, jnr, M.P. for Poole (inherited and occupied)
- 1775 George Spencer, 4th Duke of Marlborough (bought for £12,000)
- John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll
- 1791 James Baillie (died 1793).
- Colina Baillie, his wife
- Alexander Baillie, their son.
- 1799–1802 Edward Harley, 5th Earl of Oxford as tenant
- 1805 Charles Wyatt (to at least 1845).
- c.1850 House demolished
Notes and References
- Diane K Bolton, Patricia E C Croot and M A Hicks, 'Ealing and Brentford: Other estates', in A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 7, Acton, Chiswick, Ealing and Brentford, West Twyford, Willesden, ed. T F T Baker and C R Elrington (London, 1982), pp. 128-131. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol7/pp128-131 [accessed 25 November 2016].
