Flore House, Northamptonshire

He also had a house in Hunnington (then in Shropshire) and in St Margaret’s Church in that village there is a marble memorial on the wall in honour of him and his wife Constance who died in 1617.

[6] When Henry died in 1700 (he was buried at Flore) his eldest son William Rushton who lived in Charwelton inherited the house.

When he died in 1769 he left Flore House to Sarah and two years later she sold it to Richard Kerby.

[9] When Richard died in 1838 his son John Christopher Pack inherited the property and although he did not live there he retained ownership of it until his death in 1879.

[10] The first was Lieutenant General William Cartwright (1797-1873) who lived at Flore House for over forty years.

His father was William Ralph Cartwright, a wealthy landowner and politician who owned Aynhoe Park.

Major Arthur Cecil Tempest (1837-1920) was an army officer and rented Flore House shortly after his retirement.

"Here Loder lived the life of a country gentleman, filling his days with a greater variety of pursuits than most men can make time for.

He devoted himself to astronomy, to the making of a lovely rock garden (there were few in those days), to horticulture and natural science.

Here also he began to put his ideas into practice of turning a part of his grounds into a little zoo, beginning, I believe, with emus and mouflon.

Edmund inherited Whittlebury Park but bought from Marion’s family their property called Leonardslee where he lived until his death in 1920.

The 1911 Census records the family living at Flore House with a butler, a footman and six domestic servants.

After Anne Rose’s husband died in 1911 she continued to live at Rugby until 1925 when she moved to Flore House.

The couple held numerous social functions at Flore House and frequently lent the grounds for community fetes and other local events.

In 1938 they held a house party for Brodie’s father Sir Oliver Lodge and the occasion was recorded in the society magazine Tatler.