The younger daughter of Sir Rupert Clarke, she by her first husband is grandmother of the present Baron Gerard, et al.) Humphrey Brand was the son of Admiral the Hon.
Another part of the estate is at Mayfield, within Rother and the Weald; where the author Pamela Travers, creator of Mary Poppins, was once a tenant.
Glynde is home not only to a fine portrait of the Prince-Bishop by Thomas Hudson but to the Apotheosis of King James I (1629–1630), a 37.5 x 25 inches oil-on-wood sketch Rubens (1577–1640) made as preparation for his Banqueting House (Whitehall, Westminster) ceiling scheme.
In December 2008 auctioneers Christie's sold, from their King Street, London rooms, two Canalettos from the Glynde collection (from the estate of the late Viscount), and another, also acquired by Thomas Brand (c1717-1770).
Lord Hampden was co-opted onto Glynde and Beddingham Parish Council in 1987[2] and was Chairman of the Sussex Branch Country Landowners Association, 1985–87 (President, 2003–?
The school has a strong family connection, having been co-founded by an ancestral aunt, Anne (d. 1595), daughter of Sir Richard Sackville, the wife of the 10th Baron Dacre.
On the uncle's death in 1965 that barony fell into temporary abeyance (til 1970) between sisters, while Anthony Hampden's father inherited the viscountcy).