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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.
Garden gnomes were further popularized when Sir Frank Crisp, the owner of the second largest collection of garden gnomes in the UK, opened his Friar Park, Henley-on-Thames estate to the public at least once a week from 1910 to 1919. It was here where garden enthusiasts and visitors from around the world perhaps saw garden gnomes for the first time.
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, 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 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
Isham was born on 27 July 1582, and was the only son of Thomas Isham. He was named after his grandfather, John Isham of Lamport Hall (1525-1595), who had made enough of a fortune as a London wool merchant to acquire an extensive estate near Lamport, Northamptonshire where in 1568 he built a manor house. Isham succeeded to the Lamport estate in ...
Isham was born in New York City on July 20, 1853. [1] He was the son of William Bradley Isham (1827–1909) and Julia (née Burhans) Isham (1827–1907). [2] His father was a leather merchant who owned downtown factories and warehouses on Gold and Cliff Streets and became vice president of the Bank of the Metropolis and the president of the Bond and Mortgage Guarantee Company. [3]