From Peabody to pigs, the Cotswolds Art & Antique Dealers’ Association fair will have much to enjoy
IT is confusing that there were at least three 19thcentury American Peabody families who were famous for their charitable activities—and they don’t seem to have been related to one another. To Britons, the best known of these philanthropists was George (1795–1869), who set up the Peabody Trust that still provides affordable housing in London and the South-East.
He spent much of his career in England and was briefly interred in Westminster Abbey before being shipped for permanent burial in his native Salem in Massachusetts. The other families were in North Carolina and around Boston.
One of the latter was Amy (Amelia) Peabody (1890–1984), who was brought up to be a ‘lady of society’, but became a sculptor and pioneering advocate of solar power. From the 1920s, she bought farms around Dover, Massachusetts, where she bred race horses, white-faced Hereford cattle and Yorkshire pigs.
In 1948, she commissioned the architect Eleanor Raymond to build the solar-powered Dover Sun House and, in 1981, she founded the Amelia Peabody Pavilion, with a large animal clinic.
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Kitchen garden cook - Apples
'Sweet and crisp, apples are the epitome of autumn flavour'
The original Mr Rochester
Three classic houses in North Yorkshire have come to the market; the owner of one inspired Charlotte Brontë to write Jane Eyre
Get it write
Desks, once akin to instruments of torture for scribes, have become cherished repositories of memories and secrets. Matthew Dennison charts their evolution
'Sloes hath ben my food'
A possible paint for the Picts and a definite culprit in tea fraud, the cheek-suckingly sour sloe's spiritual home is indisputably in gin, says John Wright
Souvenirs of greatness
FOR many years, some large boxes have been stored and forgotten in the dark recesses of the garage. Unpacked last week, the contents turned out to be pots: some, perhaps, nearing a century old—dense terracotta, of interesting provenance.
Plants for plants' sake
The garden at Hergest Croft, Herefordshire The home of Edward Banks The Banks family is synonymous with an extraordinary collection of trees and shrubs, many of which are presents from distinguished friends, garnered over two centuries. Be prepared to be amazed, says Charles Quest-Ritson
Capturing the castle
Seventy years after Christian Dior’s last fashion show in Scotland, the brand returned under creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri for a celebratory event honouring local craftsmanship, the beauty of the land and the Auld Alliance, explains Kim Parker
Nature's own cathedral
Our tallest native tree 'most lovely of all', the stately beech creates a shaded environment that few plants can survive. John Lewis-Stempel ventures into the enchanted woods
All that money could buy
A new book explores the lost riches of London's grand houses. Its author, Steven Brindle, looks at the residences of plutocrats built by the nouveaux riches of the late-Victorian and Edwardian ages
In with the old
Diamonds are meant to sparkle in candlelight, but many now gather dust in jewellery boxes. To wear them today, we may need to reimagine them, as Hetty Lintell discovers with her grandmother's jewellery
