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Sir Charles Edmund Isham, 10th Baronet (16 December 1819 – 7 April 1903) was an English landowner and gardener based at Lamport Hall, Northampton. He is credited with beginning the tradition of garden gnomes in the United Kingdom when he introduced a number of terracotta figures from Germany in the 1840s. [ 1 ]
Sir Charles Isham c. 1850. Sir Charles Isham near the gates at Lamport Hall when he was aged about 80. Charles Isham inherited Lamport Hall at about the age of 26 in 1846 when his elder brother Justinian died. He had a particular interest in gardening and his garden featured in many of the journals of that day.
Sir Richard Leonard Vere Isham, 15th Baronet (born 1958) The heir apparent to the baronetcy is the 15th Baronet's eldest son, Angus David Vere Isham (born 1992). His heir presumptive is his younger brother, Charles Vere Ian Isham (born 1996).
Sir Justinian Isham, 4th Baronet; Sir Justinian Isham, 5th Baronet; Sir Justinian Isham, 7th Baronet; Charles Isham; Sir Justinian Isham, 2nd Baronet; Sir Edmund Isham, 6th Baronet; Gyles Isham; Sir John Isham, 1st Baronet; Sir Thomas Isham, 3rd Baronet
In 1847, Sir Charles Isham, brought 21 terracotta gnomes manufactured in Germany by Philip Griebel back to Britain where they were called "gnomes" in English, [4] [5] and placed in the gardens of Isham's home, Lamport Hall in Northamptonshire. [6]
Sir Edmund Isham, 6th Baronet (1690–1772) Sir Justinian Isham, 7th Baronet (1740–1818) Sir Charles Edmund Isham, 10th Baronet (1819–1903) Sir Gyles Isham, 12th Baronet (1903–1976) Ashley Isham (b. 1976), fashion designer; Charles Bradford Isham (1853–1919), American historian; Christopher Isham (b. 1944), theoretical physicist
1851: Sir Charles Edmund Isham, 10th Baronet of Lamport Hall [134] [135] 1852: Langham Christie, of Preston Deanery [136] 1853: Cary Charles Elwes, of Great Billing [137] 1854: Rt. Hon. Anthony Henley, 3rd Baron Henley [138] 1855: Frederick Urban Sartoris, of Rushden Hall [139] 1856: Oscar William Hambro, of Pipwell Hall [140]
English: Oddo and Doddo, Dukes of Mercia, Saxon founders of Tewkesbury Abbey, with their attributed arms Gules a cross or.Sir Charles Isham's "Registrum Theokusburiæ" gives an engraving, a copy of this original illustration, of these noble brothers, "par nobile fratrum," as Dr. Hayman calls them, in which they are termed "duo duces Marciorum et primi fundatores Theokusburiæ" i.e., two Earls ...