Hanbury Manor
Hanbury Manor is located on Cambridge Road, Ware, Hertfordshire, near the village of Thundridge. Formerly known as Poles, it was originally a mansion house built and owned by the Hanbury family. Subsequently a boarding school, it is now a hotel and country club owned by Marriott Hotels.
The first dwelling built on the property was constructed in the 16th century. The first name 'Poles' was derived from the house being at one time owned by Reginald Pole, a lay cardinal, whose mother, Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury, was the last legitimate Plantagenet and who was later the last catholic Archbishop of Canterbury.
During the latter half of the 18th century the Hanburys became lessees and later purchasers of Poles. The Hanbury family originally came from France, with Geoffrey De Hanbury settling in Worcestershire in the 14th century.
Sampson Hanbury bought Poles about the year 1800. From 1799 to 1830 he was Master of the Puckeridge Hounds. Childless, he left Poles to his widow, Agatha.
Robert Hanbury was senior partner in Truman, Hanbury, Buxton & Co. He inherited Poles on the death of his Aunt Agatha in 1847. He was a magistrate and Deputy Lieutenant, and in 1854 became the High Sheriff of Hertfordshire.
His son, also Robert Hanbury (1823–1867) (also Robert Culling Hanbury after his second marriage) died before inheriting. He too was a partner in Truman, Hanbury, Buxton & Co. and from 1857 to 1867 was Member of Parliament for Middlesex.
Edmund Hanbury too was a partner in the brewing company Truman, Hanbury, Buxton & Co from 1873, from which he retired in 1886. On his grandfather's death he brought his family to live at Poles, a property which, at that time, was in excess of 2,000 acres (8.1 km2). His wife, Amy, found the house to be a rambling, uninhabitable monstrosity and refused to live in it.
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