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James was the son of Sir Roger James, of Reigate, Surrey and his wife Margaret Aucher, daughter of Anthony Aucher of Bishopsbourne, Kent. He was admitted at Clare College, Cambridge on 13 July 1637 and was admitted at Inner Temple in 1639. [1] He was an elder of the Reigate classis in 1647 and studied at Leyden in 1648.
The Holmesdale Building Society was a single-branch UK building society based in Reigate, Surrey. It ceased to exist on 1 October 2018, taken over by the much larger Skipton Building Society, and the Reigate branch became a branch of the Skipton. It was a member of the Building Societies Association. The society had been in existence since 1855 ...
In 1681, the estate was sold to the brewer John Parsons. It was divided into lots for sale in 1766; what became Nutfield Priory is a 93 acres (38 ha) site bought by John Fowler. The estate was inherited by John Fowler Wood and sold to H E Gurney, a Quaker, in 1854. [1] In 1866, Gurney's firm Overend Gurney declared bankruptcy, owing £19 million.
Tadworth Primary School is located on the Tadworth Park estate to the east of the village centre, with entrances on Heathcote and Tadorne Road. The nearest secondary school is The Beacon School, Banstead with alternative schools in Ashtead , Epsom or Reigate .
The Reigate hundred included the parishes of: Betchworth, Burstow, Buckland, Charlwood, Chipstead, Gatton, Horley, Leigh, Merstham, Nutfield and Reigate. [1]In the Domesday Book of 1086, the hundred was known as Cherchefelle, comprised 222 households and included Reigate, the Nutfields, Buckland, the Mersthams, Chipstead, Gatton and Worth; [2] [3] in 1199 it became known as Reigate.
James Cocks (c. 1685–1750), of Reigate, Surrey, was a British lawyer and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1707 and 1747.. Cocks was the eldest son of Charles Cocks MP, a provincial attorney of Castleditch, Herefordshire and his wife Mary Somers, daughter of John Somers of Worcester, and sister of Sir John Somers, the lord chancellor.
In 1782, the year he inherited Sutton Place, he demolished the dilapidated gatehouse wing [29] He completed renovations in 1784, having rejected proposals of the architect Bonomi to remodel the house in an Italianate or neo-classical style. His second son, Thomas (d. 1857), was the last of this family, having married but died without issue.
In 1841 the estate was inherited by the 6th Baron Monson who lived in Lincolnshire and who let Gatton, first to his aunt and then to Hugh Cairns, 1st Earl Cairns, the Attorney General. [ 15 ] Between 1888 and 1942, Gatton Park was owned by Sir Jeremiah Colman whose family had established the Colman's mustard food brand in the early 19th century ...