John Headon Stanbury Explained

Birth Date:1835 5, df=yes
Birth Place:Barnstaple, England
Death Place:Exeter, England
Relatives:John Geoffrey Rowe Orchard (grandson)

John Headon Stanbury (6 May 1835 – 20 May 1907) was an English businessman, primarily a hotelier and property developer, who was active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Life and career

Stanbury was born at Barnstaple on 6 May 1835, the son of Elizabeth Headon and John Stanbury, a yeoman and auctioneer.[1] He owned an estate at Thrushelton[2] [3] and was a donor of the United Devon Association,[4] the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, and the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.[5] He was also a member of the Devon County Agricultural Association[6] and the Royal Bath and West of England Society.[7]

In 1876, Stanbury bought the Star & Garter, a now demolished pub in Brentford,[8] [9] and, in 1879, he bought the Royal Clarence Hotel in Exeter, which was then thought to be the oldest hotel in England.[10] [11]

Stanbury was an assentor in the Exeter City Council elections of 1889 and 1892.[12] [13] He was also a member of the Exeter Theatre Company:[14] in the 1890s, he served first as its vice-chairman[15] and then as its chairman.[16] On 7 February 1890, he formed The Heavitree Brewery Limited,[17] a company which had emerged from the Heavitree Brewery PLC, one of the oldest pub companies in the south west, founded in 1790. On 19 November 1892, the company purchased The Finch Eagle Brewery in Exeter, followed by the neighbouring Windsor Brewery in North Street, Heavitree on 9 January 1899.[18]

In 1893, Stanbury gave evidence before Francis Jeune, 1st Baron St Helier in the High Court of Justice at the hearing of Gooch v. Gooch (Lady Alice Elizabeth Gooch's suit for judicial separation from her husband Sir Alfred Sherlock Gooch, 9th Baronet).[19] [20] [21]

After buying the Seymour Hotel in Totnes and the Western Counties Hotel in Paddington, Stanbury bought the Grand Hotel at Plymouth in 1895.[22] In 1898, he sold the Half-Moon Hotel in Exeter.[23] [24] In 1899, Stanbury purchased Membland, an historic estate in Devon, from Edward Baring, 1st Baron Revelstoke, senior partner of Barings Bank, who rebuilt the mansion house known as Membland Hall.[25] Stanbury planned to develop the area that bordered the River Yealm, and in 1900, sold it to William Cresswell Gray, a shipbuilder from Hartlepool, at which point the estate included the Hall and 2720 acres of land.[26] [27]

Stanbury died on 20 May 1907 in Exeter. His will was proved on 6 July, at which point his estate was reportedly worth some £44,452 (in excess of £7 million today).[28] [29] The Royal Clarence Hotel passed to his son-in-law (John Bailey Rowe Orchard) and then to his son (John Geoffrey Rowe Orchard).[30] J. H. Stanbury & Co. continued to make donations after his death, including to the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital.[31]

Notes and References

  1. News: . 24 May 1907 . Funeral of the late Mr. Stanbury . The Western Times.
  2. Mortgage for £43,000 . https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/1e786323-59f7-471f-863c-8a1b3aa35fd1 . 1149/2 . 19 December 1899 . 28 - Plymouth Archives, The Box . 1149 - MEMBLAND HALL . https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/A13532656 . The National Archives.
  3. News: . 16 December 1893 . CITY AND DISTRICT [ill] ]. . 3 April 2023.
  4. Book: . 1900 . The book of fair Devon . . Exeter : United Devon Association . 207.
  5. . 1 May 1897 . ANNUAL SUBSCEIPTIONS AND DONATIONS TO BEANCHES . Journal of the Royal National Life-boat Institution . XVI . 184 . 798 . 3 April 2023.
  6. News: . 24 June 1893 . DEVON COUNTY AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION . . 3 April 2023.
  7. . 24 April 1889 . Bath and West of England Society (ESTABLISHED 1777) AND Southern Counties Association, FOR THE Encouragement of Agriculture, Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce. . Journal of the Bath and West of England Society . 20 . 510, 573 . 3 April 2023.
  8. News: . 13 November 1876 . LONDON PURCHASES . . NewspaperArchive 1700s - 2023 . 3 April 2023.
  9. Web site: Star & Garter, Kew Bridge Road, Brentford W4 . Harris . Stephen . 11 June 2020 . Pub history . pubshistory.com . 3 April 2023 . 1878/John Headon Stanbury/../../../Post Office Directory.
  10. News: . 3 September 1879 . Crewman's Exeter Flying Post . . 3 April 2023.
  11. Web site: 'J Headon Stanbury' historical pictures . . . Look and Learn . 3 April 2023.
  12. News: . 2 July 1892 . EXETER ELECTION . . 3 April 2023.
  13. News: . 5 February 1889 . DEVON COUNTY COUNCIL . . 3 April 2023.
  14. News: . 25 July 1891 . EXETER THEATRE COMPANY . . 3 April 2023.
  15. News: . 2 August 1890 . SHAKESPEARE AT SHEPHERD'S-BUSH . . 3 April 2023.
  16. News: . 9 December 1893 . EMMANUEL CHURCH, ST. THOMAS . . 3 April 2023.
  17. https://www.heavitreebrewery.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/memorandum-of-association.pdf Memorandum of Association of The Heavitree Brewery PLC
  18. Web site: History . . Heavitree Brewery . Heavitree Brewery PLC . 3 April 2023.
  19. News: . 27 January 1893 . SENSATIONAL MATRIMONIAL SUIT . Evening Express . 3 April 2023.
  20. News: . 27 January 1893 . A SOCIETY SCANDAL . . 3 April 2023.
  21. News: . 28 January 1893 . THE SOCIETY SCANDAL . . 3 April 2023.
  22. Book: . 1902 . Kelly's directory of Devon, 1902 . . Kelly's . 566.
  23. Web site: Half Moon Hotel, 22 High Street . . 24 July 2015 . Exeter Memories . David Cornforth . 3 April 2023.
  24. Book: . 1893 . Kelly's Directory of Devon & Cornwall, 1893 . AnyFlip . Kelly's . 272.
  25. News: The Late Lord Revelstoke's Membland Estate . 25 November 2018 . The Pall Mall Gazette . 22 March 1899.
  26. News: Membland Estate in South Devon . 25 November 2018 . The Pall Mall Gazette . 14 March 1900.
  27. Web site: Gray, William Cresswell . Hartlepool History Then & Now . 25 November 2018.
  28. News: . 6 July 1907 . Business Notes: Wills and Bequests . . . 3 April 2023.
  29. News: . 6 July 1907 . Wills and Bequests . . . 3 April 2023.
  30. Web site: Eight Hundred Years of Exeter's Mayors and Lord Mayors . 14 Feb 2023.
  31. Book: . 1936 . The Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital and the Ockenden Convalescent Home 1935 Annual Statements . . Exeter . 61.

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