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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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An Innkeeper’s Diary. If you’re interested in travel and tourism, hotels and inns, then this is a blog for you. Hands up all those who have heard of John Fothergill! Or his book, first published in 1931 by Chatto and Windus: An Innkeeper’s Diary. It’s a classic; and possibly best read while staying at The Spread Eagle in Thame, the ...
John Fothergill, author of An Innkeeper's Diary, on LibraryThing. A 1920s innkeeper's diary. He was a frightful name-dropper, something of a cross between Basil Fawlty and a celebrity chef, but tells some amusing stories, and casts an interesting light on the state of English catering then.
Jan 22, 2021 · John Rowland Fothergill was always his own invention, a snob, an Innkeeper, a chef, food and wine connoisseur, author, artist, bully and Wit. Fothergill ran the ’Spread Eagle’ at Thame, later managed the ‘Royal Ascot Hotel’ and lastly the ‘ Three Swans’ at Market Harborough, his life as an Innkeeper was almost four decades long, from the 1920s-1950s.
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Chain of Friendship: Selected Letters of Dr. John Fothergill of London, 1736-1780 by John Fothergill 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1971 — 7 editions
