Kilvrough Manor

Kilvrough Manor is a large country house near Swansea.

The house was built for Rowland Dawkin, a member of the Gower family, in 1585.

[1] In 1820, Major Thomas Penrice of Great Yarmouth acquired the manor: in June 1831 he was ordered by the Marquess of Bute, Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan, to tackle civil unrest associated with the Reform Bill.

[2] To his huge embarrassment, Penrice and his Yeomanry troops were disarmed by a large mob of rioters and, following an official inquiry, the local Yeomanry unit was re-organised by the Government.

[3] Admiral of the Fleet Sir Algernon Lyons died there in 1908.