Finding Fairhaven
by Tom Hickman
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Pub Date 12 Sep 2016 | Archive Date 23 Sep 2016
Description
Lord Fairhaven is one of history’s great lost characters.
As a groundbreaking architect, landscape artist, soldier, and art connoisseur, he and his family had an enormous impact on transatlantic twentieth century life both culturally and politically.
Yet he has since forgotten. Finding Fairhaven reasserts and reclaims his legacy.
The son of a civil engineer, Lord Fairhaven was born into an interesting family.
His father travelled to America to seek his fortune in the late nineteenth century during the Gilded Age, where he met and married American heiress Cara, the daughter of an infamous ‘robber baron’ and early oil magnate.
Lord Fairhaven was christened with the wonderfully baroque name Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton, or Huttleston for short
Huttleston served in the First World War as a cavalryman, but it’s his later life that really made his name.
The fortune he inherited from his parents he energetically put into the arts, acquiring wonderful art and book collections.
The he created a stunning fantasy home at Anglesey Abbey in Cambridgeshire, alongside one of Britain’s largest and most spectacular 20th Century gardens.
Finding Fairhaven is a stunning family saga, and a narrative history of an extraordinary man.
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'fascinating account of National Service...A compelling read about compulsory military service during peacetime' - The Sun
‘A gripping saga that engrossed me from start to finish’ - The Telegraph
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‘Well-written and engaging... a worthy edition to the Churchillian canon’ - BBC History magazine
'Fresh anecdotes abound in these fascinating pages' - Glasgow Evening Times
‘A groundbreaking new book' - Yorkshire Post
Tom Hickman is a full-time writer and journalist. He has written for national newspapers, magazines, and for the BBC. His books include Churchill’s Bodyguard, The Call up, and What Did You do in the War, Auntie?
As a groundbreaking architect, landscape artist, soldier, and art connoisseur, he and his family had an enormous impact on transatlantic twentieth century life both culturally and politically.
Yet he has since forgotten. Finding Fairhaven reasserts and reclaims his legacy.
The son of a civil engineer, Lord Fairhaven was born into an interesting family.
His father travelled to America to seek his fortune in the late nineteenth century during the Gilded Age, where he met and married American heiress Cara, the daughter of an infamous ‘robber baron’ and early oil magnate.
Lord Fairhaven was christened with the wonderfully baroque name Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton, or Huttleston for short
Huttleston served in the First World War as a cavalryman, but it’s his later life that really made his name.
The fortune he inherited from his parents he energetically put into the arts, acquiring wonderful art and book collections.
The he created a stunning fantasy home at Anglesey Abbey in Cambridgeshire, alongside one of Britain’s largest and most spectacular 20th Century gardens.
Finding Fairhaven is a stunning family saga, and a narrative history of an extraordinary man.
Praise for The Call Up
'fascinating account of National Service...A compelling read about compulsory military service during peacetime' - The Sun
‘A gripping saga that engrossed me from start to finish’ - The Telegraph
Praise for Churchill’s Bodyguard
‘Well-written and engaging... a worthy edition to the Churchillian canon’ - BBC History magazine
'Fresh anecdotes abound in these fascinating pages' - Glasgow Evening Times
‘A groundbreaking new book' - Yorkshire Post
Tom Hickman is a full-time writer and journalist. He has written for national newspapers, magazines, and for the BBC. His books include Churchill’s Bodyguard, The Call up, and What Did You do in the War, Auntie?
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