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American Cotswold ConnectionsHere is a collection of famous american people who are connected to the Cotswolds. See also - Famous English people with Cotswold Connections See also - American colony of artists living in Broadway See also - The only American Museum outside of the USA See also - Henry Ford's relocation of a Cotswold Cottage to Greenfield Village USA |
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William Bingham (1752 to 1804)William Bingham was an American statesman from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was a delegate for Pennsylvania to the Continental Congress from 1786 to 1788 and served in the United States Senate from 1795 to 1801. He helped to found the Bank of North America, the first bank of the new nation, in 1781. William Bingham has a memorial in Bath Abbey of figures of Angels on each side of a wall mounted plaque. He has been described as one of the richest men of his time in the Pennsylvania state, having made his fortune through ownership of Privateer’s and commerce, he served as Speaker in its House of Representatives in 1791. Bingham died on February 7, 1804 in Bath, England and is interred in Bath Abbey. His estate was not settled until 1960. |
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William Penn (1644 to 1718)William Penn (Junior), was born in London in 1644. He became a leading and most troublesome Quaker. In 1681 King Charles II granted him a province in America as redemption of the debts owed by the King to his late father. William had chosen the name "Sylvania" but the King insisted that it be prefaced by "Penn" in honour of his father Admiral Sir William Penn. Penn was both the founder and first governor of Pennsylvania. |
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George W Childs (1829 to 1894)George W. Childs of Philadelphia, an American publisher in 1887 he donated a William Shakespeare's memorial in the form of a Fountain Clock tower, which stands in the market square at Stratford-upon-Avon to mark Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee. He was a well known philanthropist, he also erected memorial windows in Westminster Abbey to the poets William Cowper and George Herbert. The large Gothic Clock Tower, with sculptures of eagles and lions is an imposing example of design and architecture of the period. Not only will you see American Eagles but also English Lions and a fairy from A Midsummer Night's Dream as part of the stonework. It was unveiled by the actor Henry Irving. |
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John Harvard (1607 - 1638)Harvard House in Stratford-upon-Avon with its beautiful carved timbers was built by Thomas Rogers after a fire destroyed the previous house in 1596. In 1605, his daughter Katherine married Robert Harvard and it was their son John, born in 1607, who emigrated to America. Harvard University is named after John Harvard. |
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Nancy Lancaster (1897 – 1994)
Born Nancy Keene Perkins at her maternal grandfather's farm, Mirador, in Greenwood, near Charlottesville, Virginia, and brought up in Richmond and New York City, she was the elder daughter of Thomas Moncure Perkins, a Virginia cotton broker, and his wife, Elizabeth Langhorne. Nancy Lancaster was also a niece of Nancy Astor, the British politician, and of Irene Gibson, the wife of the artist Charles Dana Gibson. Her cousin Joyce Grenfell was a celebrated British actress. In the 1920s, as Nancy Tree, she was principally responsible for creating the "English country house look" - a romantic, patrician, uncluttered style which has had a profound effect on English interior design, notably through the influence of her company Colefax & Fowler. A woman of wit, style and beauty, she looked like a Gainsborough duchess and was the star of many anecdotes - "Paint it the colour of elephant's breath," she once commanded a decorator. All her work was notable for its sense of scale, boldness, wit and mellowness. Her houses seemed to convey the essence of all that was best in English country life. She was totally committed to England, and at the beginning of the Second World War became a British citizen out of solidarity, but was American by birth, a survivor of the world of Henry James.
Winston Churchill used to spend his weekends there during the Second World War, when the danger of bombing prevented him going to Chequers or Chartwell. But the Trees' marriage was dissolved in 1947, and their idyll at Ditchley Park came to an end. The next year she married Lt-Col Claude Lancaster, MP, the owner of Kelmarsh; they soon separated. |
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Nancy Lancaster was a crucial figure in 20th-century interior English Country House "design look". 
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