Pope’s Villa

Cross Deep, Twickenham

1718 Thomas Vernon (cottages)
1719 Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
1720 Villa built
1733 Portico added
1745 Sir William Stanhope (1702-1772)
1758 House remodelled & extended
1772 Welbore Ellis (1713-1802), son-in-law
1802 Philip Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, reversion
1804 Sir John Briscoe (d1805)
1805 Lady Briscoe
1807 Baroness Howe of Langar (1762-1835)
1808 Villa demolished
New Villa built next door
1812 Sir Wathen Waller (1769-1853), 2nd husband
1840 Partial demolition of new villa; (see Ryan House & River Deep)
1842 Thomas Young, Tea Merchant (d1851); new Villa built
1852 William Horsley
1860 *George Smith Esq;
*Joseph Stearns Esq
1864 Henry Balfour
1865 Mrs Balfour
1866 Charles Aird
1873 Henry Labouchere (1831-1912)
1907
1914-15 James Pollock McQuaid1916 Mrs North
1917 Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps1919 The Sisters of Mercy, St Catherine’s School
1996 St James Independent School for Boys
2011 Radnor House School Independent School