Mount Clare, Roehampton
Mount Clare is a Grade I listed house built in 1772 in Minstead Gardens, Roehampton, in the London Borough of Wandsworth.
The architect was Sir Robert Taylor,[1] and the house was enlarged with a portico and other enrichments in 1780 by Placido Columbani. It was Grade I listed on 14 July 1955.[2]
The house was built for the politician George Clive[1] and the gardens were landscaped by Lancelot "Capability" Brown.[3]
Notable residents
Clive died in 1779. Subsequent residents have included:
- 1780–1804: Sir John Dick,[3] British Consul at Leghorn,[1] who died at the house on 2 December 1804[4]
- 1807–19: the chemist Charles Hatchett FRS, who discovered the element niobium[3]
- 1830–32: Humphrey St John-Mildmay, sixth son of the third Baronet, and Member of Parliament for Southampton[3]
- 1840–46: Admiral of the Fleet Sir Charles Ogle, 2nd Baronet[3]
- 1874–1908: Hugh Colin Smith, Governor of the Bank of England.[3] Smith's stockbroker descendants lived in the house until 1945.[3]
Requisition in 1945 and subsequent use
The house was requisitioned by Wandsworth Borough Council in 1945. In 1963 it became a hall of residence for Garnett College, the UK's only dedicated lecturer-training college. Garnett College became part of Woolwich Polytechnic, then Thames Polytechnic, then the University of Greenwich.
Today Mount Clare is a hall of residence for the University of Roehampton.[3]
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