Breamore House

Breamore House is an Elizabethan manor house noted for its fine collection of paintings and furniture and situated in Breamore, just north of Fordingbridge, Hampshire, England.

Breamore House was completed in 1583 by the Dodington family. The building underwent minor changes in the 18th century and underwent considerable restoration after a major fire in 1856.

Purchased in the 18th century by Sir Edward Hulse, physician to Kings George I and George II [Sir Edward Hulse was the son of Edward Hulse, MD, physician to the Court of the William, Prince of Orange in 1677, and Treasurer of the Royal College of Physicians, London.] , the home is still inhabited by the Hulse family, who became baronets (see Hulse Baronets). [ [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=56891 Breamore House, Hampshire, British History Online] ] [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=W-IHAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA175&lpg=PA175&dq=edward+hulse+breamore&source=web&ots=2XZAlr-Czx&sig=OJkH2vPPGKpJq5uM4Vb0Acio5dQ&hl=en History, gazeteer, and directory of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, William White, 1878] ] Thanks to an intermarriage with Dame Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Richard Levett, Lord Mayor of London, the Hulse family acquired many heirlooms of the Sussex Levetts, an ancient Norman family, which are on display in the house. [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=mvIDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA301&lpg=PA301&dq=%22richard+levett%22+mayor&source=web&ots=X9FDqeecAl&sig=cbfNronp3TXQyAeKMS9DRkV70-I&hl=en The Baronetage of England, John Debrett, 1840] ] (Levett's other daughter Frances married Thomas Lewis Esq. of St. Pierre, Monmouth, Wales; his daughter Mary married Abraham Blackborne [Following Blackborne's death, his widow Mary Levett, also mother to barrister Levett Blackborne who became heir of Sir Richard Levett, remarried Robert Thoroton of Screveton Hall, Nottinghamshire in 1722, who was descended from Thomas Thoroton, brother and heir of the famous antiquary Robert Thoroton] , a London merchant who lived at Clapham [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=svwGAAAAYAAJ&printsec=titlepage&dq=%22abraham+blackbourn%22&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0#PRA1-PA171,M1 Burial of Abraham Blackbourn, Gent., of Clapham, 1721, Richmond, Surrey, The Publications of the Surrey Parish Register Society, London, 1905] ] , and whose son Abraham, vicar of Dagenham, married Frances Fanshawe, daughter of Thomas Fanshawe of Parsloes.) [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=kHiYRb8sq68C&pg=PA635&lpg=PA635&dq=british+history+online+richard+levett+kew&source=web&ots=cI7CfgtjXe&sig=dq_6ydQCc-LR82gFBCMaA9zWy00&hl=en The House of Commons, 1690-1715, David Hayton, 2002] ] [ [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=45389 Levet tombs, Saint Anne's Church, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, British History Online] ] [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=B-gKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA154&lpg=PA154&dq=fanshawe+parsloes&source=web&ots=PsCMHPq-4i&sig=gxOFg0Jhdh61eFRjBQf153sHr6A&hl=en#PRA2-PA154,M1 Abraham Blackbourne, Visitation of England, Joseph Jackson Howard, England College of Arms, 1906] ]

Elizabeth Hulse, only daughter of Sir Edward Hulse, M.D., Baronet, and physician to Queen Ann, King George I and King George II, was married in 1757 to John Calvert of Albury Hall, Hertfordshire. [One of Elizabeth Hulse's brothers was Sir Edward Hulse, Bart., who married Hannah Vanderplanck; the other was Richard Hulse, who served as High Sheriff of Kent in 1768.] (John Calvert was member of Parliament for Wendover in 1754 and later for Hertford.) The wedding was performed by Abraham Blackborne, vicar of Dagenham, Essex. [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=sKUKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA72&lpg=PA72&dq=%22abraham+blackborne%22&source=web&ots=LXMpc0ZU76&sig=BY2UNmQF80ck8GezZbHJLde5WaA&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=2&ct=result The Register Book of Marriages Belonging to the Parish of St. George, Hanover Square, Middlesex, London, 1886] ]

Breamore House was used as one of the locations for the 2005 film "Pride & Prejudice."

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External links

* [http://www.breamorehouse.com/ Breamore House]
* [http://www.spanglefish.com/Breamore/ An alternative site created by the Butler]
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=Cq8KAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA641&lpg=PA641&dq=%22sir+richard+levett%22&source=web&ots=fhyVnGXdEA&sig=XRcaRfRjZqoYdI6Jy4CeENReHfw Hulse of Hampshire, John Burke, A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire]
* [http://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/Research/Libr/MIs/MIsWilmington/MIsWilmington.htm Monumental inscriptions, Wilmington church graveyard, Kent Archaeological Society, kentarchaeology.co.uk]