HISTORIC HOMES IN ENGLAND

Southland Times, Issue 22961, 6 August 1936, Page 5

HISTORIC HOMES IN ENGLAND

Preservation Plan (British Official Wireless.) Rugby, August 4. An interesting scheme extending the scope of the work of the National Trust for the preservation of places of historic interest or natural beauty has been announced as a result of an arrangement reached between the Trust and Sir Charles Trevelyan, Lord Lieutenant of Northumberland and former President of the Board of Education, Wallington. A 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 Thomas Macaulay, the British essayist, will, at the death of Sir Charles, pass to the National Trust. This will ensure the preservation of the house and its valuable contents and beautiful grounds, and will provide for access thereto by the general public while at the same time maintaining the connection of the Trevelyan family, the living representatives of which will, so long as they wish, remain as tenants of the trust. The 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.