Whose House?

12 Downing Street is the official residence of the

Bought the Old Vicarage, Grantchester, in December 1979 (still living there in 2016)		Jeffrey & Mary Archer
Inventor and industrialist who built Willersley Castle, a country mansion on the banks of the Derwent near Matlock, Derbyshire, shortly before his death in 1792		Sir Richard Arkwright
Cliveden, Buckinghamshire, was in the 1930s the home of		Lord & Lady Astor
Born 1775 in the rectory of Steventon, Hampshire; family moved to Bath following her father’s retirement in 1801, to Southampton 1805 following his death, and to Chawton Cottage, near Alton, Hants (now a museum to her life) in 1809; died 1817		Jane Austen
Born 1806 in Coxhoe Hall, Co. Durham; but more associated with Wimpole Street, Westminster, where the family was living when she eloped with Robert Browning (1846)		Elizabeth Barrett
Shipley Windmill, West Sussex: restored as a memorial to		Hilaire Belloc
Haworth Parsonage (near Bradford)		The Brontës
Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire, was the ancestral home of (but sold – after his death? – to pay off his debts)		Lord Byron
Chartwell, Kent: country home from 1924, until his death in 1965, of		Winston Churchill
12 Woodgate, Helpston, near Peterborough: birthplace (1793) of (Northamptonshire's 'peasant poet')		John Clare
Lived at Firefly Estate, Jamaica (after leaving the UK in the 1950s for tax reasons), and died there in 1973		Noel Coward
Born at Mount House, Shrewsbury, 1809; lived at Down House, Downe, Kent (now in the London Borough of Bromley) from 1842, and died there in 1882		Charles Darwin
Family who built Waddesdon Manor, Aylesbury, Bucks 1874–79		De Rothschild
48 Doughty Street, Holborn: now a museum, once (1830s) the home of		Charles Dickens
Hughenden Manor, near High Wycombe, was the home from 1848, until his death in 1881, of		Benjamin Disraeli
Buckland Abbey, Devon, was the home of		Sir Francis Drake
Wrote many novels in his Jamaican retreat, Goldeneye		Ian Fleming
Cirrhosis–by–the–Sea (nickname given by two Hollywood stars to a house in Malibu that they once shared – around the time of World War II)		Errol Flynn
		David Niven
Rooksnest, Stevenage, was the childhood home of		E. M. Forster
Two very different musicians who lived in adjacent houses in Brook Street, Mayfair, London, 211 years apart; both of their homes are now museums		George F. Handel
		Jimi Hendrix
Max Gate: built to his design in 1885, his home until his death in 1928; donated by his sister to the National Trust in 1940; designated as a Grade I listed building in 1970		Thomas Hardy
Monticello – a mansion and plantation near Charlottesville, Virginia – was built in 1772, on land inherited from his father, by		Thomas Jefferson
Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire (left to the National Trust in 1976 by his daughter Mrs. Elsie Bambridge – with his archives)		Rudyard Kipling
Arlington National Cemetery is in the grounds of the mansion of		Robert E. Lee
251 Menlove Avenue, Woolton, Liverpool (bought by his widow and donated to the National Trust, opened to the public in 2003): childhood home of (he lived there with his Aunt Mimi and Uncle George, from age 5 to 23)		John Lennon
Lived for 28 years, from 1948 until his death in 1976, at The Elms, Stalybridge Road, Mottram in Longendale (traditionally in Cheshire, now in Greater Manchester)		L. S. Lowry
Converted Lindisfarne Castle to a private home in 1903		Lutyens
20 Forthlin Road, Liverpool – acquired by the National Trust in 1998 and redecorated and furnished in authentic 1960s style– was the childhood home of		Paul McCartney
12305 Fifth Helena Drive, Brentwood, California, was the last home of		Marilyn Monroe
Lived from 1860 to 1865 at Red House, in Bexleyheath, Kent, which he co–designed himself and which now belongs to the National Trust		William Morris
Born at Woolsthorpe Manor, near Grantham		Isaac Newton
Brought up in her family's homes at Embley Park (near Matlock, Derbyshire) and Lea Hurst (near Romsey, Hampshire)		Florence Nightingale
Ivy House, Hampstead: home of 1912–31, now a museum to		Anna Pavlova
Hill Top Farm (or House), Far Sawrey, Cumbria (formerly Lancashire): home of		Beatrix Potter
Sagamore Hill – on Long Island, New York – was the home from 1885 until his death in 1919 of		Theodore Roosevelt
Died in 1900 at Brantwood, on the shores of Coniston Water		John Ruskin
Built the mansion Abbotsford on the Tweed, near Melrose		Sir Walter Scott
Died in New Place, where he had lived for the last 19 years of his life (destroyed in 1759 by its owner at that time, who had become annoyed by the visitors)		William Shakespeare
Villa Wahnfried, in Bayreuth, constructed in the 1870s under the sponsorship of King Ludwig II of Bavaria and now a museum		Richard Wagner
First Prime Minister to occupy 10 Downing Street (1735)		Robert Walpole
Sulgrave Manor, Northants: ancestral home of		George Washington
Military family: occupied Quebec House, Westerham, Kent from 1726		Wolfe
Famous writer for whom (and her husband, Leonard) Monk's House in the village of Rodmell, near Lewes, East Sussex was a "country retreat" for the last 20 years of her life		Virginia Woolf
Lived at Dove Cottage, Grasmere, 1799–1808 (with his sister Dorothy)		William Wordsworth

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