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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 Gyles Isham, the twelfth Baronet, in 1958 was High Sheriff of Northamptonshire. The family surname is pronounced "Eye-shum", and derives from the village of Isham , Northamptonshire . The family coat of arms are described as, "gules, a fesse wavy, and in chief three piles, also wavy, points meeting in fesse, argent".
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 Justinian Isham, 5th Baronet (1687–1737) 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
Sir John Isham Bt (1582-1651) was High Sheriff of Northamptonshire and created the 1st hereditary Baronet of Lamport by King Charles I. John Isham of Lamport Hall. Circle of Gerlach Flicke (1495–1558). c.1567. Isham was born on 27 July 1582, and was the only son of Thomas Isham.
Isham was born in Malden-on-Hudson in Ulster County, New York on April 29, 1827. He was the son of Charles Isham (1784–1856), who was born in Colchester, Connecticut, and Flora (née Bradley) Isham (1797–1845), who was born in Hartford, Connecticut. [1] Among his siblings was sister Flora Eliza Isham and brother Samuel Isham. [2]