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2 unusual facts about Robert Fleming


Joyce Grove

Shortly after purchasing Joyce Grove, Robert Fleming tore down the older manor house and in its place he authorized noted landscape architect Charles Edward Mallows (1864-1915) of Bedford and London to build a large Jacobean style house with 44 bedrooms and gardens.

Joyce Grove Mansion is a large Jacobean style building designed by famous landscape architect Charles Edward Mallows (1864-1915) for Robert Fleming (1845-1933), founder of Robert Fleming and Co. merchant bank.


True at First Light

Two books have been published from the African book manuscript: True at First Light, edited by Patrick Hemingway, and Under Kilimanjaro, edited by scholars Robert Lewis and Robert Fleming.

Waterloo Music Company

During its more than eight decade history, the company published works by a large number of notable Canadian composers, including compositions by Violet Archer, John Beckwith, Keith Bissell, Jean Coulthard, Samuel Dolin, Robert Fleming, Talivaldis Kenins, Walter MacNutt, Barbara Pentland, Godfrey Ridout, Eric Wild, and Healey Willan.


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Clan Fleming

Nine Flemings are known to have signed the Ragman Roll of 1296, and therefore have pledged alliance to Edward I, although Sir Robert Fleming was among the first supporters of Robert the Bruce.