{"id":5375,"date":"2023-08-24T12:47:33","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T11:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/apperleydeerhust.co.uk\/?page_id=5375"},"modified":"2023-08-24T12:56:44","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T11:56:44","slug":"a-few-prominent-people-4","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/apperley-deerhurst.co.uk\/?page_id=5375","title":{"rendered":"A Few Prominent People:"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Henry Strickland 1777-1865.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\">Henry Eustatius Strickland&nbsp;was the brother of Charlotte and Juliana Strickland, who&nbsp;moved from Yorkshire to settle at Apperley Court and built the present house from about 1816.&nbsp; Henry Eustatius inherited the Court when his sisters died.&nbsp; Henry extended Apperley Court and landscaped the grounds<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"269\" height=\"294\" src=\"http:\/\/apperleydeerhust.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Henry-E-Strickland-1777-1865.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5376\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\">Henry was married to Mary (nee Cartwright) and father to the naturalist Hugh Edwin Strickland, who died in a tragic accident in 1853, to Algernon who died of yellow fever in 1835, and&nbsp; also to Frances, Henry William, John Henry and Julia Eustatia.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"241\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/apperleydeerhust.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/apperley-court-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5377\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Apperley Court<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\">Henry Eustatius was a philanthropist in the best Victorian tradition.\u00a0 He was the founder of both Apperley Church and Deerhurst School. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" src=\"http:\/\/apperleydeerhust.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Old-school-in-Deerhurst-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apperley-deerhurst.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Old-school-in-Deerhurst-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/apperley-deerhurst.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Old-school-in-Deerhurst-1024x674.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/apperley-deerhurst.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Old-school-in-Deerhurst-768x506.jpg 768w, https:\/\/apperley-deerhurst.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Old-school-in-Deerhurst-1536x1011.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/apperley-deerhurst.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Old-school-in-Deerhurst-2048x1349.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Original parish school building in Deerhurst, founded by Henry<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\"> He  wanted to build a chapel for the benefit of the residents of the hamlet of Apperley.\u00a0 Henry felt that \u201cit would be a great convenience to the inhabitants of Apperley to have a place of worship in their own hamlet, the distance of the parish church being too great in bad weather for the females, the aged and the children&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"273\" src=\"http:\/\/apperleydeerhust.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Plan-of-Apperley-church-300x273.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apperley-deerhurst.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Plan-of-Apperley-church-300x273.jpg 300w, https:\/\/apperley-deerhurst.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Plan-of-Apperley-church.jpg 739w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Plan for a new chapel &#8211; note this original plan shows no apse<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\">Henry Eustatius Strickland died at Apperley Court in 1865 at the age of 87 years and 9 months.\u00a0 He had seen his dream of building his own chapel at Apperley through to fruition, and the chapel had been in use for 8 years when he died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Henry Strickland 1777-1865. Henry Eustatius Strickland&nbsp;was the brother of Charlotte and Juliana Strickland, who&nbsp;moved from Yorkshire to settle at Apperley Court and built the present house from about 1816.&nbsp; Henry Eustatius inherited the Court when his sisters died.&nbsp; Henry extended Apperley Court and landscaped the grounds Henry was married to Mary (nee Cartwright) and father [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5375","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"campaignId":"","uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"township-lite-homepage-thumb":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"1","author_link":"https:\/\/apperley-deerhurst.co.uk\/?author=1"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Henry Strickland 1777-1865. 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