HISTORIC ESTATE
INGENIOUS PRESERVATION
PLAN
(British Offlcial "Wireless.!
RUGBY, August 4.
An interesting scheme, extending the scope of the work of the Rational Trust for the preservation of places of historic interest or riatural beauty is announced. It results from an arrangement reached between the trust and Sir Charles Trevelyan, Lord Lieutenant of Northumberland, and a former president of the Board of Education. • . '■ '■■'"'■
Wallington, his large estate near Morpett, with a'house 250 years old. which has been associated, with the Trevelyan family since 1777 and , in which are books and other relics of Lord Macaulay will, at the death of Sir Charles, pass to the National Trust, which will ensure preservation of the house and its valuable contents and beautiful grounds and'provide for access thereto by the general public, while at the same time maintaining the connection of the Trevelyan family, living representatives of which will, so long as they wish, remain tenants' of the trust.
Newspapers comment on the scheme as an ingenious manner of preserving against dispersion. or unsympathetic development many large estates of historic interest or great beauty, the owners of which are unable to provide confidently for the future owing to the incidence of taxation and death duties.
A cable published yesterday gave as the reason for Sir Charles's action the fact that he does not believe in private ownership of land.
HISTORIC ESTATE
Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 32, 6 August 1936, Page 9
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Evening Post. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in