32-734: The Canadian Red Cross Memorial Hospital in Taplow , Buckinghamshire , was a civilian hospital and a centre for research into rheumatism in children until its closure in 1985. In 1914, during the First World War , the Astor family invited the Canadian Red Cross to build a military hospital on part of the Cliveden estate. The Red Cross built a small hospital, the HRH Duchess of Connaught Hospital, on
64-656: A Conservative . On 30 December 1905, Grenfell was raised to the peerage as Baron Desborough , of Taplow in the County of Buckingham , a title that combined the defunct hundred of Desborough and the riverside village in which he lived in Buckinghamshire . During a long career dedicated to public service, he was President of the Thames Conservancy Board from 1904 to 1937, the London Chamber of Commerce , and
96-551: A gold belt buckle. Taplow was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Thapeslau. Taplow Court nearby is also the site of an early Iron Age hill fort and was the site of the manor house . William Grenfell, 1st Baron Desborough lived at Taplow Court . Neighbouring is Cliveden , former home and parkland of Nancy Astor in the parish. Both aspects of Cliveden are today open under the National Trust scheme though part of
128-570: A modest, hilly wood marking the start of the Chiltern Hills. The village has a geological Site of Special Scientific Interest , South Lodge Pit , dating to the late Cretaceous . The village's name is Anglo-Saxon in origin, and means Tæppa's barrow; the Anglo-Saxon burial mound of Tæppa can still be visited, and important artefacts excavated there are now in the British Museum , notably
160-666: A school of the same name. Taplow railway station , on the Great Western Main Line and Elizabeth Line , serves the village, with services to London Paddington , Heathrow , through Central London , Reading and Oxford . There are two conservation areas in the parish, the Taplow Village Conservation Area and the Taplow Riverside Conservation Area. Footpaths connect all parts of the parish to Maidenhead Bridge and to Burnham Beeches ,
192-588: Is a village and civil parish in the Unitary Authority of Buckinghamshire , England . It sits on the left bank of the River Thames , facing Maidenhead in the neighbouring county of Berkshire , with Cippenham and Burnham to the east. It is the south-westernmost settlement in Buckinghamshire. The village features a Grade II listed mock-medieval church, the parish church of St Nicholas, as well as
224-511: Is located on the Cliveden Road and the rugby union side, Phoenix RFC, is located on Institute Road near the railway station. William Grenfell, 1st Baron Desborough William Henry Grenfell, 1st Baron Desborough , KG , GCVO , DL (30 October 1855 – 9 January 1945) was a British athlete, sportsman, public servant and politician. He sat in the House of Commons first for
256-456: The 1880 general election , Grenfell was elected the Member of Parliament for Salisbury ; he lost the seat in a ministerial by-election in 1882 but returned in 1885–1886. He was elected MP for Hereford in 1892. Politically he was a Gladstonian (loyal) Liberal who resigned in 1893 rather than support Gladstone's Second Irish Home Rule Bill . He returned to the House of Commons in 1900 as
288-532: The Liberal Party and then for the Conservatives between 1880 and 1905 when he was raised to the peerage . He also was President of the Thames Conservancy Board for thirty-two years. Grenfell was the son of Charles William Grenfell , former MP for Sandwich , and Georgiana Lascelles, daughter of William Saunders Lascelles , MP. He was the nephew of Henry Riversdale Grenfell , the banker and politician, and
320-834: The Niagara rapids twice, rowed across the English Channel , sculled the London-Oxford stretch of the Thames in twenty-two consecutive hours, and when he was a member of the House of Commons he rowed for the Grand Challenge Cup . He climbed the Matterhorn by three different routes, and, in one long vacation, within just eight days, he climbed the little Matterhorn, the Matterhorn, Monte Rosa , and
352-527: The Royal Agricultural Society , amongst many others. He was High Steward of Maidenhead , the nearest town to his home at Taplow Court , Taplow in Buckinghamshire . His good deeds for Maidenhead included the donation of an old chalk pit, converted for use as a park , to celebrate the diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria : this park, Grenfell Park, contains many unusual trees , the seeds of which were collected by Lord Desborough as he travelled
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#1732869335797384-643: The Weisshorn . He loved deer stalking in Scotland , big-game hunting in the Rockies , India , and Africa , and fishing in many countries, being a successful tarpon fisherman off the coast of Florida , where he caught over a hundred tarpon. He was an amateur punting champion of the Upper Thames, winning the Thames punting championship for three consecutive years (1888–90) and then retired with an unbeaten record. He won
416-575: The British Isles. Desborough had the unfortunate distinction of having an obituary prematurely published on 2 December 1920 by The Times , which confused his name with that of Lord Bessborough , who really had died – Desborough died 25 years later at the age of 89. Lord Desborough married Ethel Fane , daughter of the Hon. Julian Fane and granddaughter of John Fane, 11th Earl of Westmorland , in 1887. They had three sons and two daughters. His eldest son
448-756: The Order of the Garter . He was a Major of the 1st Battalion, Buckinghamshire Rifle Volunteers from February 1900. In November 1914, he was appointed President of the Central Association of Volunteer Training Corps , a voluntary home defence militia , until it was disbanded in 1920. From 1924 to 1929 he was Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard . Between 1919 and 1929 he was chairman of the Pilgrims of Great Britain . He planned and oversaw
480-520: The construction of the Desborough Cut , a navigation channel between nearby stretches of the Thames at Walton-on-Thames and Weybridge , which was opened in 1935. The large island created thereby was named Desborough Island . In 1933 he was one of eleven people involved in the appeal that led to the foundation of the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO), an organisation for the study of birds in
512-461: The crippling London Police Strike of August 1918. Its recommendations resulted in the enactment of the influential Police Act of 1919 which changed the working conditions of the police in London, Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham and elsewhere. Desborough was appointed CVO in 1907 and advanced to KCVO in 1908 and GCVO (Knight Grand Cross) in 1925; and in 1928 he was admitted as a Knight Companion of
544-431: The elite and aristocratic group, the ' Souls ', adjacent on the riverside to Cliveden , which is a slightly grander country estate, but which saw its social heyday immediately after, from 1920 to 1965. Lady Desborough was a well-known celebrity in her day. Margot Asquith , whose husband would later be politically aligned against Desborough, said of her, "She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake". In 1892, he built
576-493: The first cousin of Edward Grenfell, 1st Baron St Just . Grenfell was educated at Harrow School and Balliol College, Oxford , graduating from the latter in 1879 and receiving the honorary degree of DCL from the university in 1938. At Harrow, Grenfell was a redoubtable bowler in the school's cricket eleven (1873–74), and whilst at Oxford , he rowed in the Boat Race , in the only dead-heat race against Cambridge in 1877, and in
608-709: The following year, when he was president of the Oxford University Boat Club , he was in the Oxford crew which won by ten lengths. He was also president of the Oxford University Athletic Club, and it is believed that no other man has been president of both clubs. He was also the first-ever captain of Maidenhead Rowing Club . Furthermore, he combined these exertions with the mastership of the university drag hounds . Grenfell enjoyed mountaineering , swimming , fishing and big-game hunting . He swam
640-439: The hospital from the 1960s through to the 1980s. The hospital closed and was abandoned in 1985 and lay derelict for two decades while the National Trust , who owned the site since 1942, explored options for its development. Many pieces of the hospital's old equipment lay there for years. It was demolished in 2006 to make way for a housing development for people aged 55 and over called Cliveden Village. Taplow Taplow
672-575: The main building is used as a hotel for visiting dignitaries to the UK. In 1883 a number of important Anglo-Saxon royal grave goods were discovered, reflecting similar discoveries in Prittlewell , Broomfield , and Sutton Hoo . Though the overall collection is less than that from the ship-burial in Mound 1 at Sutton Hoo, many individual objects are closely comparable and of similar quality. The church of St Nicholas
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#1732869335797704-527: The period of April 2001 to March 2002 the average gross weekly income of households was £840, compared with an average of £660 in South East England . Of the ward's residents aged 16–74, 37.2% had a higher education qualification or the equivalent, compared with 19.9% nationwide. The village's football club, Taplow United F.C. , play in the Hellenic Football League . The village cricket club
736-408: The public in 1947, it came under the supervision of the newly formed National Health Service . The hospital also developed a large maternity unit at this time. The painter Stanley Spencer , who lived in nearby Cookham , died in the hospital in 1959 from cancer, having undergone an unsuccessful operation there the year before. Dr Barbara Ansell , the founder of paediatric rheumatology, worked at
768-618: The silver medal for fencing in the event of team épée at the 1906 Intercalated Games , having been the first person to carry the flag for Great Britain in the parade of nations. In 1908, he was president of the Olympic games held in London. He was President of the Amateur Fencing Association from its foundation until 1926, Marylebone Cricket Club based at Lords, the Lawn Tennis Association based at Wimbledon, and
800-786: The site. It was named after the Duchess of Connaught who had served as Viceregal consort of Canada . In the Second World War , the Canadian Red Cross demolished many of the existing buildings to make way for a new, larger hospital with more equipment; this was named the Canadian Red Cross Memorial Hospital. After the war the hospital was donated to the British Government for use as a general hospital and research centre into rheumatism in children. After opening to
832-547: The town. Grenfell offered to lease some of his acreage near Maidenhead Railway Station, which was to become Maidenhead Golf Club and remains so well into its second century. Grenfell became one of the earliest 63 members of the club, and its first president and agreed to present “a challenge cup for competition”. This was the Grenfell Cup which is still in yearly competition. A registered golf tournament survives in his name since 1912 with its top prize being The Desborough Cup. In
864-470: The world. He was also an active Freemason. He became a steward of Henley Royal Regatta . He was a J.P. for Buckinghamshire and a Deputy Lieutenant for Tower Hamlets . He was appointed High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire in 1889. On 3 Jun 1915, he was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Buckinghamshire. In 1919, he presided over the Desborough Committee which investigated the conditions that led to
896-439: Was 12.3% retail, 11.8% manufacturing, 4.5% construction, 24.6% real estate, 7.8% health and social work, 5.7% education, 9.1% transport and communications, 2.7% public administration, 6.7% hotels and restaurants, 2.7% finance, 3% agriculture and 9.1% other. Compared with national figures, the ward had a relatively high proportion of workers in agriculture and real estate. According to Office for National Statistics estimates, during
928-639: Was built in 1911 but includes one of the earliest surviving brass memorials to a civilian in England, made in about 1350, which would place it during the Black Death . At the 2011 UK census, the Taplow electoral ward had a population of 1,669. The ethnicity was 92.5% white, 1.0% mixed race, 5.0% Asian, 0.8% black and 0.7% other. The place of birth of residents was 85.1% United Kingdom, 1% Republic of Ireland, 4.6% other Western European countries, and 9.3% elsewhere. Religion
960-713: Was president and chairman of the Bath Club from its foundation in 1894 until 1942, and chairman of the Pilgrims of Great Britain from 1919 to 1929. He was also a founder member of Maidenhead Golf Club in Berkshire, formed in 1896. It was the friendship of one local founder member, Dr G E Moore, with Grenfell that really got the project off the ground. Grenfell was the Mayor of Maidenhead in 1895 and 1896 and an extremely wealthy and competent businessman who owned more than 10,000 acres of land around
992-592: Was recorded as 64.1% Christian, 1.6% Buddhist, 0.5% Hindu, 1.6% Sikh, 0.3% Jewish, and 1.3% Muslim. 24.1% were recorded as having no religion, 0% had an alternative religion and 5.9% did not state their religion. The economic activity of residents aged 16–74 was 46.8% in full-time employment, 8.7% in part-time employment, 16.7% self-employed, 1.3% unemployed, 0.9% students with jobs, 2.5% students without jobs, 12.7% retired, 6.2% looking after home or family, 1.7% permanently sick or disabled and 2.7% economically inactive for other reasons. The industry of employment of residents
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1024-498: Was the poet Julian Grenfell , who was killed in action in 1915. His second son Gerald William Grenfell was also killed, about two months after his elder brother. His third son, Ivo George Grenfell, died in 1926 as the result of a car accident. His daughters were Alexandra Imogen Clair Grenfell (Imogen) (1905–1969) and Monica Margaret Grenfell (1893–1973). As all his sons predeceased him, the barony became extinct. The family lived at Taplow Court , where he and his wife hosted gatherings of
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