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Wotton House is a hotel, wedding venue, conference centre and former country house in Wotton near Dorking, Surrey, England.Originally the centre of the Wotton Estate and the seat of the Evelyn family, it was the birthplace in 1620 of diarist and landscape gardener John Evelyn, who built the first Italian garden in England there.
John Evelyn, the diarist was born at Wotton House in 1620, which includes two grottos in the grounds. In 1694 he moved in as the main legatee . After the Evelyn family relinquished occupation, Wotton House was leased as a training college for the Fire Service from 1947 to 1981 and then, after being empty for nearly 13 years, was converted into ...
Wotton House, Wotton Underwood, Buckinghamshire, England, is a stately home built between 1704 and 1714, to a design very similar to that of the contemporary version of Buckingham House. The house is an example of English Baroque and a Grade I listed building .
Evelyn was the eldest son of George Evelyn and his wife, Mary Jane, daughter of J. H. Massy-Dawson, MP, of Ballynacourty, Co. Tipperary, Ireland. He was a descendant of the diarist and polymath John Evelyn and succeeded to the family estates in Surrey, centred around Wotton House, Surrey, which had been the birthplace of his ancestor the ...
Sir John Evelyn, 1st Baronet (1 March 1682 – July 1763) of Wotton, Surrey, was a British official and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1708 to 1710. His grandfather, the diarist John Evelyn , influenced his independent attitude in politics and stimulated his dedication to literature.
Wotton House at rear He was born in 1734, the only son of Sir John Evelyn, 2nd Baronet , and served in Elliot's Light Horse at the battle of Minden in 1759, during the Seven Years' War . He succeeded his father to the baronetcy created for his grandfather, Sir John Evelyn, 1st Baronet of Wotton , on 11 June 1767, inheriting Wotton House, Surrey .
Wotton House and estate passed down to Evelyn's great-great-grandson Sir Frederick Evelyn, 3rd Bt (1733–1812). The baronetcy next passed to Frederick Evelyn's cousins, Sir John Evelyn, 4th Bt (1757–1833), and Sir Hugh Evelyn, 5th Bt (1769–1848). Both these two were of unsound mind and the estate was therefore left to a remote cousin ...
The college at Saltdean became too small and the Home Office opened the Senior Staff College at Wotton House, Dorking in Surrey in 1949, [3] to train senior officers from all over the country. On 4 June 1966, they decided to do the same for the lower ranks and established the Fire Service Technical College at Moreton-in-Marsh on a disused RAF ...