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Knight, Frank & Rutley is an earlier name of the firm. Howard Frank was an English estate agent, headed of the firms of Knight, Frank & Rutley of London and Walton & Lee of Edinburgh and was president of the Estate Agents' Institute from 1912 to 1914. 1896: The firm is founded in London by John Knight, Howard Frank and William Rutley.
Upon leaving Oxford, Oldfield qualified as a surveyor and was headhunted by Sir Howard Frank and joined Frank's estate agency business, Knight, Frank and Rutley, where he specialised in the agricultural land side of the business. [1] He married Lady Mary Elizabeth Murray, the daughter of Alexander Murray, 8th Earl of Dunmore in April 1937.
Leverhulmes collection and all household and garden items, even the pigeons, were sold by auction through Knight Frank & Rutley after his death in 1925. [6] A Japanese style garden was added in 1923, its features have since been lost, but the pond remains. The artist Alfred East stayed at Roynton Cottage in the summer of 1909.
The house was for sale with freehold for £10,000 in 1923 (equivalent to £720,418 in 2023) through Knight, Frank and Rutley. It was described as a "substantial and fairly modern house, with gardens of over an acre, near the highest part of East Heath-road." [3]
This, together with the expenditure on the estate, exceeded the income, and together with increased taxation occasioned by the war, forced him to reduce his land holdings. Therefore, in 1918, the Oakley estate was sold at auction by Knight, Frank and Rutley. Each tenant was given the opportunity of purchasing his own residence, and those who ...
In October 1987, the estate agency Knight Frank and Rutley were instructed to market the property for sale. On the morning after The Great Storm of 1987 (16 October), Antony Wardell, the agent, drove to the property to measure it up. Upon arriving, he discovered that during the storm the property had been destroyed by fire.
Michaelstowe Hall was up for sale again in July 1932 at an auction held by Knight, Frank, and Rutley in Hanover Square, London. [6] The freehold passed to Francis Edward Harris, previously owner of the Towers Hotel in Clacton.
In July 1920, Goldings was put up for auction along with most of Waterford and the surrounding area, with Messrs Knight, Frank and Rutley as the agents.Due to dealings with the late Dr. Thomas Barnardo, the Abel Smith family sold Goldings in 1921 to Dr Barnardo Homes for the sum of £100,000 which had been set off in a loan, that by all ...