22-407: Thomas Monro may refer to: Thomas Monro (art collector) (1759–1833), British art collector, patron and physician Thomas Monro (writer) (1764–1815), English cleric and writer Thomas Kirkpatrick Monro (1865–1958), professor of medicine [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with
44-627: A Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1791, and acted as Censor on three separate occasions. He delivered the Harveian Oration in 1799. In 1811, he was named as an Elect of the college. Like his father and grandfather he was employed at Bedlam starting as Assistant Physician in 1787. He attended on George III in a joint consultation of specialists during the king's second illness in 1811–12, although Queen Charlotte ensured that his further involvement did not extend beyond that of
66-801: A house in Adelphi Terrace , London and a cottage in Fetcham , Surrey (until 1805). From 1807 until his death, on 14 May 1833, he lived in a 'country house' in Merry Hill near Bushey in Hertfordshire . Monro was himself an amateur artist, and a pupil of John Laporte . Monro had several children, and three of his sons also became artists, in particular Henry (1791–1814). Coincidentally, Monro's distant kinsman Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro of Novar would later be one of Turner's chief patrons. {{DNB|wstitle=Monro, Thomas (1759-1833. Fetcham Fetcham
88-811: A passive observer. In 1792 he became Principal Physician as successor to his father. He resigned in June 1816, as a result of scandal when he was accused of ‘wanting in humanity’ towards his patients. Monro was also known as a patron to numerous artists (including Peter De Wint , Thomas Girtin , John Sell Cotman and William Turner ). The group of artists around him was known as 'The Monro Circle' and included students from his 'Academy' in London, where evening classes were given. Other painters who visited his home included J. M. W. Turner , Joseph Farington , Thomas Hearne (1744–1817), James Bourne , Henry Edridge , William Henry Hunt , John Laporte and John Varley . Monro had
110-643: Is a suburban village in the Mole Valley district, in Surrey , England west of the town of Leatherhead , on the other side of the River Mole and has a mill pond , springs and an associated nature reserve. The housing, as with adjacent Great Bookham , sits on the lower slopes of the North Downs north of Polesden Lacey ( NT ). Fetcham Grove has Leatherhead and the village's main leisure centre and football club, between
132-540: Is also a small reading room that can be hired for private functions, on Cobham Road just north of the railway. There was a social club, called the Fetcham Sports and Social Club, but this closed in 2001 after the membership dwindled. The building is now used as offices. 1st Fetcham Scout Group, headquartered in Cock Lane, has three Cub Scout packs and two Scout Troops , as well as Beavers . Fetcham Explorers share
154-479: Is bounded by the neighbouring villages of Great Bookham and Little Bookham on its west. Although at the eastern extreme, the historic B2122 Guildford Road/Waterlow Road which has mixed use splits north and east with two bridges to Leatherhead, Fetcham is centred on its own road The Street, with wide-ranging convenience shops, some small restaurants/take-aways, community halls , large public houses as well as nearby churches. The Fetcham Conservation Area includes
176-402: Is currently no station in the village. There were proposals for a station in the village centre during the 1930s/40s which would have served the main village centre and been located at what is now Hilley Field Lane . The nearest stations are Leatherhead , Cobham & Stoke D'Abernon and Bookham . Fetcham is served by the following emergency services: The average level of accommodation in
198-559: The Domesday survey as three manors; one known as King's Manor was probably Fetcham Park ; another was given to Odo, Bishop of Bayeux after the Norman conquest . The third was an Augustinian foundation from Merton Priory , at Cannon Court, which Henry VIII dissolved in 1538. Its small manorial farming community numbered 176 in the survey, but halved as a result of the Black Death in 1349. In
220-681: The 1st Fetcham Scout Group hall and facilities. Fetcham FC football club no longer exists, Fetcham Park United formed in 1971 is now an adult amateur Charter Standard football club affiliated with the Surrey FA . Its two teams play in Division 1 and Division 5 of the Leatherhead & District Sunday Football League . The home ground was formerly the Cock Lane Recreation Ground in Fetcham but
242-538: The A-road network that has a choice of routes through and around the village. The main village thoroughfare is the A245 Cobham Road and is partly bounded by and contains partly in the south the east-west, part-dualled A246. Local bus operator Falcon Buses provides hourly route 479 between Epsom and Guildford through the village. The New Guildford Line skirts the north of most of the houses in Fetcham, but there
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#1732883624335264-416: The droughts of 1976 and 2006. There are four Christian congregations in the village: To its south are the Fetcham and Leatherhead Downs, which are a part of the North Downs . There are two village schools: Fetcham's sole pub , The Bell was built in brick in the 1930s on the site of an earlier pub, opposite Fetcham Infants School . It changed ownership several times in the late 20th century until it
286-415: The first half of the nineteenth century the population was still only around 370 [1] . In the 1931 census it had reached 1,318 and by 1972 was 7,331. St Mary's Church has been a place of Christian worship for over 1000 years. Built during Anglo-Saxon and early Norman periods, it is probably on the site of an even earlier timber church. There are many hints of its past in its structure. These include
308-437: The impressive 18th-century mansion of Fetcham Park House . The Salt Box, The Well House, The Dower House and Ballands Hall are four of a cluster of old buildings in that area. Others are sparingly strewn throughout Fetcham including at Grade II*: Le Pelerin and Thorncroft Manor. The Mill Pond springs are a large number of chalk springs, still used to supply potable tap water . These springs continued to supply water during
330-695: The larger North Downs are protected Green Belt , forming a buffer between Stoke D'Abernon (the south of Cobham post town) and Dorking respectively. The name Fetcham is derived from the Anglo-Saxon "Fecca's ham" – Fecca's settlement. Fetcham lay within the Copthorne hundred . Indeed, there is evidence that there were even earlier settlements, with the discovery of Stone and Bronze Age tools and Roman artefacts, as well as three ancient burial grounds. Fetcham appears in Domesday Book of 1086 as Feceham . It
352-498: The same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Monro&oldid=944435923 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Thomas Monro (art collector) Thomas Monro (1759–1833)
374-461: The south-west quoin of the nave, and a single splay window high on the south wall with traces of Roman brick as well as arches that are presumed to pre-date 1066. In 1951 the civil parish had a population of 4178. On 1 April 1974 the parish was abolished. The village of Fetcham is slightly larger than the English non-city parish average; extending from the River Mole at the village's east side, it
396-557: The teams now play home games at Priest Hill Playing Fields, in Epsom . All parts of the large village are within 1.5 miles (2.4 km) of a railway station giving easy access to London. The M25 motorway 's nearest access is J9, just after the one-way square in Leatherhead town centre (enclosing public gardens) or from the south of the village via the Leatherhead bypass and A246. Guildford , Cobham , Epsom and Leatherhead can be reached by
418-588: The two settlements. Fetcham has two short parades of shops and services, several sports teams and parks and a small number of large pubs and food premises. Neighbouring Bookham and Leatherhead have railway stations and a junction of the M25 London Orbital Motorway is a 3-mile (4.8-km) journey from it passing alongside the River Mole beyond a brief upland made up of most of Fetcham's remaining farms and wooded Great Bookham Common demarcating Fetcham's northern border. The northern few square miles and
440-486: Was a British art collector and patron . He was Principal Physician of the Bethlem Royal Hospital and one-time consulting physician to George III . Thomas Monro was born 1759, in London, youngest son of Dr John Monro ( 9th of Fyrish ) and Elizabeth Culling Smith. He was educated at Harrow under Samuel Parr and attended Oriel College, Oxford where he graduated as a Doctor of Medicine in 1787. Admitted as
462-627: Was bought by the Youngs brewery chain in 2004, when it had a major refit, followed by another in late 2007. The Bell is mentioned in The Good Food Guide and holds a pub quiz on Mondays. The large Village Hall in The Street is home to several organisations, including Fetcham Village Women's Institute . It was also the venue for several early performances by the influential band John's Children , which included sometime frontman Marc Bolan . There
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#1732883624335484-550: Was held partly by William the Conqueror ; partly by Richard from the Bishop of Bayeux partly by Oswald the Thegn . Its Domesday assets were: 7 hides ; 5½ mills worth 17s; 10½ ploughs ; 2 oxen ; 30 acres (12 ha) of meadow ; woodland , herbage and pannage worth 23 hogs . It rendered £10 10s 0d per year to its feudal system overlords per year. Fetcham, therefore, was referenced in
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