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Botleys, the seat of the Lady Mawbey, late Sir Jos Mawbey

Watercolour of Botleys displaying a four square Palladian house of seven bays on a hill. The site was sold to Sir Joseph Mawbey (1730-1798), politician, by Mrs Pleasance Hall in 1763. The old mansion was pulled down and the new house was built in 1765 by Kenton Couse for Mawbey.

Reference Number: 04348 00001 00022 00003

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Archive Record Details
Date Start	1822
Date End	1822
Format	Watercolour
Annotation	'208 Chertsey, Botleys the seat of the Lady Mawbey late Sir Jos Mawbey, J Hassell 1822' in pencil at foot of page
Keyword	Houses

Places
Parish	Chertsey

People

Artist

Hassell, John
(1767 - 1825) Watercolour painter and engraver

Engraver

None

Associated Person

Mawbey, Lady
Lady Mawbey was presumably the wife of Sir Joseph Mawbey (died 1817) who had inherited the estate after his father's death. The granddaughters of Sir Joseph Mawbey the elder inherited the estate in 1817. One married John Ivett Briscoe of Foxhills and they sold Botleys in 1822 to David Hall, feltmaker

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This database record is for an image from the collection of over 2000 items made by Robert Barclay (1750-1830) of Bury Hill, Dorking. The collection includes over 500 early 19th century watercolour views by father and son John and Edward Hassell, and 17th to 19th century prints of people and views.

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