Birch-Reynardson of Holywell and Adwell  This post primarily concerns the Birch, later Birch-Reynardson, family, who descended from a younge...

This site, which was short-listed for the Society of Architectural Historians (GB) Colvin Prize in 2019, presents my research into the landowning families of the British Isles and the country houses w...

Coham of Coham Bickford of Dunsland This post tells the stories of two Devon families, who were linked by marriage and by their successive p...

Adams of Bowden House William Adams (1752-1811), a merchant and banker who served several times as Mayor of Totnes and became the town’s MP...

Berners of Woolverstone Hall  Chauncy's history of Hertfordshire (1700) traces the descent of the Berners family from Hugh de Berners, who ...

This site, which was short-listed for the Society of Architectural Historians (GB) Colvin Prize in 2019, presents my research into the landowning families of the British Isles and the country houses w...