Grieves, K. (2018). ‘A perfectly unspoiled site of priceless beauty’: Lord Francis Hope, Leopold Salomons and Box Hill, 1894--1914. Surrey Archaeological Collections 101. Vol 101, pp. 1-29. https://doi.org/10.5284/1069438. Cite this via datacite
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‘A perfectly unspoiled site of priceless beauty’: Lord Francis Hope, Leopold Salomons and Box Hill, 1894--1914 | |||||||||||
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Surrey Archaeological Collections 101 | |||||||||||
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In 1914 Leopold Salomons purchased 230 acres on Box Hill from the Hope Settled Estates and gave it to the National Trust to secure public access to recreational open space. There were formidable complexities in the negotiations for this gift to the nation, which Salomons overcame with the support of Sir Robert Hunter, Lord Farrer and Lawrence Chubb. The sale notices on the slopes of Box Hill were the culmination of twenty years of threatened ‘enclosure’, which Robert Louis Stevenson had noted with dismay in 1894 in Samoa. Deepdene was the principal seat of the encumbered Hope Settled Estates, whose life tenant, Lord Francis Hope, was twice bankrupt in 1894 and 1902. The private tradition of Hope liberality enabled a fragile public access to parts of Box Hill, which became a case study of exemption from Undeveloped Land Duty during the People’s Budget. But by 1913 this ‘unspoiled land’ was the proposed site of building leases. This article uses estate, personal and amenity archival material held by the Surrey History Centre, University of Nottingham Manuscripts and Special Collections and National Trust. In the context of the political and social history of the Land Question in England, it evaluates the relationship between the preservation of open country and the prerogatives of private landownership on the most popular hill in Surrey, as the National Trust began to protect places of natural beauty in perpetuity. Locally rooted voluntary social action in the form of the Salomons Trust Deed, in effect practical liberalism, saved the summit and provided a keystone for the acquisition of the remainder of Box Hill after the Great War. | |||||||||||
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