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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 ...
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.
- Claude Whatham
- 1981-01-09
- Drama
- Robert Hardy, Lynn Farleigh, John Carson
Jun 1, 2018 · John Fothergill, early 20th-century, United Kingdom, English hotels and inns, biography, An Innkeeper's Diary, social history, upper middle class, class, menus, bohemia Abstract Provides a biographical sketch of John Rowland Fothergill, the celebrated author and innkeeper at the Spread Eagle in Thame, the Royal Hotel, Ascot and the Three Swans, Market Harborough.
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.
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 ...
- January 27, 2000
An Innkeeper’s Diary by John Fothergill . Eccentric and blunt-speaking Fothergill’s memoirs as an innkeeper in Thame at the Spread Eagle Inn. Features; Folio Society Second Impression No. 1002; Publisher Folio Society, London; 2000; Quarter Green Cloth with Printed Paper Sides Hardback, 278 pp; Illustrations by Peter Bailey; Size 250 x ...
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 ...
