John Donnithorne Taylor

John Donnithorne Taylor (1798 – 1885) was a member of the Taylor-Walker brewing family and the owner of Grovelands House.[1][2]

John Donnithorne Taylor

In the 1830s, Mr and Mrs Taylor were involved in a legal case in which Mrs Taylor requested the restitution of conjugal rights.[3]

Around 1840 he purchased Cullands Grove house and estate and merged the grounds into the adjoining Grovelands estate and demolished the house.[4][5]

References

  1. Cherry, Bridget; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1 March 1998). London: North. Yale University Press. ISBN 0300096534. Retrieved 14 January 2019 via Google Books.
  2. "Grovelands Park". Londongardensonline.org.uk. Retrieved 14 January 2019.
  3. Stephens, Archibald John (1845). The statutes relating to the ecclesiastical and eleemosynary institutions of England, Wales, Ireland, India, and the colonies; with the decisions thereon, by A.J. Stephens. p. 1596. Retrieved 14 January 2019 via Internet Archive. John Donnithorne Taylor.
  4. Culland's (or Cannon's) Grove, Southgate, London, the seat of Sir William Curtis: perspective. RIBA. Retrieved 6 January 2019.
  5. Newby, Herbert W. (1949) "Old" Southgate. London: T. Grove. pp. 17-29.


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