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Lady Dacre

Plate 31 from Views in Egypt by Luigi Mayer

Portrait of King Edward VII who ruled from 1901-1910

Naomi Dunning - stage manager

Parham House, West Sussex mb-width 4232 Lady DacreParham House, West Sussex, c1900s c1920s. Parham is an Elizabethan house set in an ancient deer park close to the South Downs. During the Middle Ages the manor of Parham was owned by Westminster Abbey. In 1540 Parham was given to Robert Palmer, a London mercer, by Henry VIII. In 1577 his son, Sir Thomas Palmer, began to build a new house at Parham, incorporating parts of the old manor house. The present house remains essentially as it was built then.