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4 unusual facts about Oakley Hall


Jane Martha St. John

In 1832, their uncle, Wither Bramston, died, leaving his Oakley Hall estate in Hampshire to Jane Martha's brother William who went to live there with his young family.

Oakley Hall, Hampshire

A national school, accommodating 120 students, was built in nearby Oakley on the property of William W. B. Beach in 1855 and by 1872, it was expanded.

Oakley Hall, Staffordshire

Oakley Hall is a privately owned early 18th century mansion house at Mucklestone, Market Drayton, Staffordshire.

R. Burnett Miller

Robert Burnett Miller (born September 2, 1923) is a former mayor of Sacramento, California who co-founded, with Oakley Hall and Blair Fuller, the Squaw Valley Writer's Conference and was featured in Ken Burns' documentary The War.


Donald Heiney

Some of his distinguished colleagues were novelist Oakley Hall, Victorian scholar and Poet Robert Peters, and Literary Critic Hillis Miller.


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