Canford Magna, Village 1904
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Canford House is Poole's manor house, which dates from 1450. In the early 19th century this was the home of William Ponsonby, brother of Byron's lover Lady Caroline Lamb. Ponsonby's wife, Lady Barbara, was the sister of the reformer Lord Shaftesbury. In 1846 Sir John Guest, of Guest Keen & Nettlefold, the iron and steel magnate, bought Canford and employed Charles Barry, whose Palace of Westminster was still being built, to enlarge the house. Guest was so extravagant that he became known as 'paying Guest'. His son Ivor, who in 1880 was made Lord Wimborne, welcomed many visitors, including the Prince of Wales (Edward VII), Lady Wimborne's nephew Winston Churchill, and the poet Rupert Brooke. The house became Canford School in 1922.
An extract from Poole and Sandbanks Photographic Memories.
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