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The Antrobus family of Cheshire bought the estate in 1824.
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Antrobus and family
The Antrobus family sold the site after their last heir was killed serving in France during the First World War.
Three acts dramatize the travails of the Antrobus family, allegorizing the alternate history of mankind.
In 1824 the Antrobus family acquired the estate and it remained in their hands until 1915 when, after the last heir was killed in France, Lord Antrobus sold the grounds –- including Stonehenge -– to private bidders.
The play is a three-part allegory about the life of mankind, centering around the Antrobus family of the fictional town of Excelsior, New Jersey.
While the Antrobus family remains constant throughout the play, the three acts do not form a continuous narrative.
There are unsettling parallels between the members of the Antrobus family and various characters from the Bible.
Antrobus and Cheshire
* The Singing of the Travels by the Symondsbury Mummers, appears on SayDisc CD-SDL425 English Customs and Traditions ( 1997 ) along with an extract from the Antrobus, Cheshire, Soulcakers ' Play
* The fourth level has information on each town or parish ( e. g. Antrobus, Cheshire ).
Antrobus and .
Milligan and Stephens reunited during Series 6, but towards the end of Series 8 Stephens was sidelined by health problems, and Milligan worked briefly with John Antrobus.
In 1961-62, during the long pauses between the matinee and the evening show of Treasure Island, Milligan began talking to Miles about the idea he and John Antrobus were exploring of a dramatized post-nuclear world.
This became the one-act play The Bed-Sitting Room, which Milligan co-wrote with John Antrobus, and which premiered at the Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury on 12 February 1962.
* The Bed-Sitting Room ( 1969 ), post-apocalyptic comedy with Peter Cook and Dudley Moore and also Arthur Lowe ; written by John Antrobus based on the Milligan / Antrobus play.
He frequently wrote for and / or performed with many other leading comedy performers and writers of the period, including Tony Hancock, Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, John Antrobus and Johnny Speight.
The second series of six episodes ( written from storylines suggested by Speight ) were mostly written by Sykes, although he co-wrote one episode each with John Antrobus and Spike Milligan.
Script-writers included John Albery, John Antrobus, John Betjeman, John Bird, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Peter Cook, Roald Dahl, Richard Ingrams, Lyndon Irving, Gerald Kaufman, Frank Muir, David Nobbs, Denis Norden, Bill Oddie, Dennis Potter, Eric Sykes, Kenneth Tynan, and Keith Waterhouse.
The Antrobus Arms and the former Plaza Cinema were both used as locations for the filming of a BBC Miss Marple mystery.
The original mill was built by George Antrobus in 1792 but very little of those buildings remain.
* In Thornton Wilder's play The Skin Of Our Teeth ( 1942 ), it is stated that Henry Antrobus ' real name is Cain and he accidentally killed his brother Abel with a stone.
Historian Douglas Babcock has suggested that this was due to the Conservatives ' nomination of William Antrobus Griesbach, dashing Rutherford's hopes that his popularity among Conservatives would preclude their opposing him.
Bootsie and Snudge is a British television situation comedy series written, in the early days, by Barry Took and Marty Feldman, later writers were John Antrobus, Jack Rosenthal, ventriloquist Ray Alan and Harry Driver.
He replaced Monica Dacon who had been interim Governor General after the death of Charles Antrobus.
Speight was one of many writing talents on that series which also included the star Sykes, John Antrobus and Spike Milligan.
BBC Radio 4 broadcast a 15 episode dramatisation scripted by Yvonne Antrobus over three weeks in August and September 2005.
She was appointed Deputy Governor General in 2001 when Sir Charles Antrobus was Governor General.
She became acting Governor-General of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, after the death of Charles Antrobus and until the appointment of Dr. Frederick Ballantyne as Governor General, on September 2, 2002.
family and Cheshire
The house was built in the middle of the 19th century as a family home for John Tollemache, a wealthy Cheshire landowner, estate manager, and Member of Parliament.
The Grosvenors were a family of Norman descent long seated at Eaton Hall in Cheshire who until this auspicious marriage were but of local consequence in their native county of Cheshire.
The Parnells of Avondale were descended from an English merchant family, which came to prominence in Congleton, Cheshire, early in the 17th century where as Baron Congleton two generations held the office of Mayor of Congleton before moving to Ireland.
He was born at Newark, where his father, who belonged to an old Cheshire family, was town clerk.
Hyde was the third son of Henry Hyde of Dinton and Purton, Wiltshire ( brother of Lawrence Hyde ( attorney-general )), a member of a family for some time established at Norbury, Cheshire and his wife Mary Langford.
* Anna Laetitia Barbauld and her family move to Warrington in Cheshire.
At 18 months her family moved to Macclesfield, Cheshire and when she was 11 they moved again, to Buxton in Derbyshire.
The Cheshire family of cheeses is a distinct group that includes other crumbly cheeses from the North of England such as Wensleydale and Lancashire cheese.
He lived in Luton from the age of four, but when he was a teenager, Bronson moved with his family to Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, where he started getting into trouble.
Eaton Square is one of three garden squares built by the Grosvenor family, and is named after the historic Cheshire manor of Eaton, on which is situated the country house of Eaton Hall, the Grosvenor family's principal seat.
Renshaw was born to an agricultural family in Handforth in the county of Cheshire, England.
Claire is the elder child of Robert Booth, FCMI, of Weston Turville, Buckinghamshire ( born 1948 at Rotherham and a scion of the ancient Cheshire Booth family ) by his wife Barbara Patricia ( daughter of Wilfred Robert Hitchin ).
The Mill had been in the Cheshire family since the 1860s and was sometimes referred to locally as Cheshire's mill, applying the Buckinghamshire dialect possessive suffix ' ums ', Cheshire's becomes Cheshums!
The surname of Massey, that of a prominent Cheshire family, is associated with St Erkenwald, a poem occasionally claimed to be another of the Pearl poet's works ; the names of Thomas Massey and Elizabeth Booth ( a member of the Booth family of Dunham Massey ) are written in St Erkenwalds manuscript.
The family seats are Houghton Hall, Norfolk, and Cholmondeley Castle, which is surrounded by a estate near Malpas, Cheshire.
The family seat is Arley Hall in Cheshire.
Until 1919, the family seat of the viscounts Combermere was Combermere Abbey in Combermere Park, between Nantwich and Whitchurch in Cheshire.
The Librarian, Henry Guppy, invited individuals to deposit their archives for safe keeping in 1921 when there were no county record offices in Lancashire or Cheshire and the library became one of the first to collect historical family records.
There have been three baronies created for descendants of the Gerard family who resided at Bryn, Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire and Kingsley, Cheshire, in the 13th century.
The former seat of the Greenall family was Walton Hall near Warrington, Cheshire.
The seat of the Legh ( pronounced " Lee ") family was Lyme Park near Disley in Cheshire.
The Hollingworth / Hollingsworth name is an early Saxon name originating around 1022 when this family moved into northeast Cheshire and purchased an estate named Hollingworth Manor.
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