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Lewes House, 2017. Fothergill bought a large Tudor oak table for £25 that was installed in the dining room at Warren's home, Lewes House. Upon Warren's death, it sold for £2,100 (£159,819 in 2023). Fothergill was left £20,000 (£1,522,086 in 2023) by Warren. His book, Confessions of an Innkeeper was dedicated to Warren's partner and main ...
Apr 27, 2000 · E.S. Turner. 2868 words. An Innkeeper’s Diary. by John Fothergill. Faber, 278 pp., £23.95, January 2000, 0 571 15014 4. John Fothergill, the high-handed host of the Spreadeagle at Thame between the world wars, described himself in Who’s Who as ‘Pioneer Amateur Innkeeper’. Evelyn Waugh, sending him a copy of Decline and Fall, inscribed ...
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Dec 10, 2020 · An innkeeper's diary by Fothergill, John, 1876-1957. Publication date 1987 Topics Spreadeagle (Inn) -- History, Oxfordshire Thame Inns: Spreadeagle (Inn). Management ...
John Rowland Fothergill (1876–1957) was an English innkeeper and entrepreneur, described as a "pioneer amateur innkeeper" in Who's Who. [1] John Fothergill in the 1920s. John Rowland Fothergill was born in Kent in 1876, his family originating from Westmorland and Caerleon. [2] He studied at St John's College, Oxford, the Slade School of Fine ...
Nov 14, 2023 · Fothergill, John Rowland (1876–1957), innkeeper and author, was born on 27 February 1876 at Kennington, Ashford, Kent, the only son of George Fothergill and his wife, Isabel Eliza (née Crawshay). He had two sisters. His mother died when he was two days old, and George Fothergill subsequently remarried; there was a son by this second marriage.
Fothergill: Directed by Claude Whatham. With Robert Hardy, Lynn Farleigh, John Carson, Patrick Newell. John Fothergill, aesthete and scholar, becomes the proprietor of the Spread Eagle, in Thame, Oxfordshire, with the intent of turning it into the most celebrated Inn in England, catering to the brightest lights in London's literati.
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LONDON, Aug. 29 (Reuters)-- John Rowland Fothergill, known as Britain's rudest innkeeper, is dead at the age of 81. View Full Article in Timesmachine »
