Historical Factual Story! About a Dorset village and its beautiful Manor House.
Researching for my late father, and found a rich vain of factual data concerning a Dorset family, named Lambert.
The Lamberts have left so much of history to tell us, enough to fill 2 novels.
Winterborne Steepleton Manor has for 130 years withstood investigations by local historians and researchers alike, now the Manor House and the occupants past and present can each tell their own stories.
This book contains 15 chapters, 9 Appendixes, and 2 indexes, (names and places), and 9 owner/occupiers, lots of lovely internal and external photographs, yes it has a follow-up, entitled 'The Manor of a Man'.
This book has a divorce-court case, two Act of Parliaments’; an unknown diary, old railway documents, newspaper cuttings, personal letters, and is the biography of one William Charles Lambert. Esq. a Dorset barrister. He was also a Deputy Lord Lieutenant for Dorset & Somerset to 1877. (This man was behind the first Landed Gentry railway into Dorset.)
Yes their is a sad end, but did managed to trance most of the Lamberts, from around the world; 9 children were orphaned in 1877, leaving there families unconnected, until now.