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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 ]
Lamport Hall was the home of the Isham family from 1560 to 1976. Sir Charles Isham, 10th Baronet 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 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
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 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
This is a list of the High Sheriffs of Northamptonshire.. The High Sheriff is the oldest secular office under the Crown. Formerly the High Sheriff was the principal law enforcement officer in the county but over the centuries most of the responsibilities associated with the post have been transferred elsewhere or are now defunct, so that its functions are now largely ceremonial.
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.