[20], In about 1940 the Bond family returned to live at Mortons House. Nothing could pass in or out without going past the Castle. The National Trust car park is located at Castle View Welcome Centre, East Street, Corfe Castle, BH20 5DR (01929) 477320 and is located on the main A351 road just prior to the turn off for Studland. Corfe Castle was made a borough by Queen Elizabeth I, through the influence of Sir Christopher Hatton, who had been granted the manor. National John had bought the Corfe Castle property in about 1712 and it became known as Mortons House. A by-election was held. Corfe Castle was abolished as a separate constituency by the Reform Act; however, the nearby borough of Wareham kept one of its MPs, and Corfe Castle was included within the expanded boundaries of the revised Wareham constituency. Other local attractions include Durlston Castle, ideal for a cream tea, take a trip on the steam train to Corfe Castle… Of Dukes, Soviets and Suffragists: the unexpected life of Ruth Cavendish-Bentinck. [12] They were tenants for many years until the last daughter Mary died in 1820. Corfe Castle was made a borough by Queen Elizabeth I, through the influence of Sir Christopher Hatton, who had been granted the manor.The borough consisted of the town of Corfe Castle on the Isle of Purbeck, once a market town but by the 19th century little more than a village, where the main economic interests were clay and stone quarrying.. She thought these changes would damage the next generation as working men were struggling to feed their families, she said, and widows were expected to be grateful for a pittance to raise their fatherless children: “The West Country labourer is supposed to live on the beauty of his scenery and his picturesque (and too often insanitary) house,”[16], She had a wide variety of close friends from George Bernard Shaw and Keir Hardie, to the Duke of Argyll and Edward VII’s mistress, Alice Keppel. Philip and Lucy de Laszlo ath Mortons House. [8], Reverend John Colson (1701-1769) was the son of Robert Colson, mayor of Dorchester who had married John Morton’s sister Mary in 1700. [18], The Cavendish Bentinck’s lived at Mortons House until 1933 and then lived in London. Book digitized by Google from the library of the New York Public Library and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. The Greyhound Hotel was originally two cottages, converted to a … Freddie died in 1948 at the age of 92 and Ruth died in 1956 at the age of 86. [17] She was also friends with the famous painter Philip de Lászlóand his wife Lucy and in the 1920s this couple visited them at Mortons House. Collected from ancient chronicles and records; also from the private memoirs of a family resident there in the time of the civil wars; which include various particulars of the court of Charles the First, when held at York and afterwrads at Oxford, Advanced embedding details, examples, and help, http://books.google.com/books?id=HpLxmKR39CAC&oe=UTF-8, Terms of Service (last updated 12/31/2014). The right to vote was exercised by all householders (resident or not) paying scot and lot; in 1816 this amounted to only 44 voters, and all but 14 of those were non-resident. The Dacombe (sometimes spelt Dackombe or Dackham) family built Mortons House in 1590. The Bond family retained possession of Morton’s House for the next two centuries. However they had no children. [6] When Edward died in 1683 the house was left to his son Henry Dacombe who sold it to John Morton of Henbury. Only recorded son of Sir Ralph Bankes (1631-77), kt. [13] While he lived there William made several paintings around Corfe Castle. They are both buried nearby at St James Churchyard in Kingston. Expelled from the House of Commons, December 1641. In 1727 he married Grace Gundry who was the daughter of Thomas Gundry of Dewlish. There are plenty of great pubs to visit with good food, and those looking for fine dining could make a trip to The Pig on the Beach in Studland, or to Rick Steins in Sandbanks. A VILLAGE hotel has been sold to new owners for more than £2m. [7] John died a month later in 1750 and was buried at Corfe Castle. They had acquired this estate by marriage in about 1500 when Thomas Dacombe had married Elizabeth Clavell who was the daughter and heir of Richard Clavell[3] of Corfe Castle. Savills, on behalf of a private vendor, has sold Mortons House Hotel in Corfe Castle to domestic owner operators. One of the first was the Dampier family[11] who have a memorial plaque in Corfe Castle Church. Tory MP for Corfe Castle, 1698-1714. They sometimes lived in it but mostly they rented it to wealthy tenants. http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/constituencies/corfe-castle, Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 5), https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Corfe_Castle_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&oldid=908463814, Parliamentary constituencies in Dorset (historic), United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1572, United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies disestablished in 1832, Wikipedia articles citing Notitia Parliamentaria that were auto-converted and need a page number check, Wikipedia articles incorporating an LRPP-MP template with two unnamed parameters, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Henry Stooks Smith, "The Parliaments of England from 1715 to 1847" (2nd edition, edited by, This page was last edited on 29 July 2019, at 21:53. Illustrated with map and photographs.]". In 1831, the population of the borough was approximately 960, in 156 houses. They had two sons while they were living there. Lieutenant Colonel Ashley Raymond Bond moved in with his wife Annette Hester Mary Bowles.