Disraeli retorted by alluding to Beresford Hope's "Batavian graces" (in reference to his family's Dutch origins).
In 1844 a rich young landowner, member of parliament, and generous churchman, Alexander James Beresford Hope, visited the ruins, found them deplorable, and bought them.
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