A WELL-KNOWN HOUSE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20851, 18 April 1931, Page 6 (Supplement)

A WELL-KNOWN HOUSE.

NOW A LUXURIOUS CLUB. Aston Clinton House, between Tring and Aylesbury, has been purchased by a syndicate arid is being converted into a luxurious country club. It is to be opened as such with a County Drag Hunt Ball, states a Londoner. It was for long tho homo of tho late Sir Anthony do Rothschild, who purchased it from Lord Lako in tho middle of tho last century. After Sir Anthony's death his daughter, Lady Battersea. lived there.

Tho house was ono of tho most famous of tho Rothschild homes. The stables alone cost over .£20,000, and many of tho stable fitting; are of silver.

There are about 180 acres of ground, and the new club will have stables for 80 horses, lawn-tennis grounds, a cricket ground, a golf course, and a flying ground and hangars for members' aeroplanes. A pack of foxhounds is to bo formed in connection with tho club. Tho aims of the promoters aro to provide every outdoor sport for a member ship of 2000. Externally no changes havo been made to the house, but attractive interior decorations aro being carried oub under tho direction of Lady Lathom.

The house was purchased some four years ago from Lady Battersea, by Mr. A. E. B. Crawford, who, after living there for some time, has now become chairman of tho club syndicate.