The structure was built and operated by Hugh Bovill (son of Sir William Bovill) and his wife, Charlotte.
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Lord-chief-justice Cockburn and Chief-justice Bovill protected against it as contrary to the spirit of the act, and on 15 February 1872, Lord Stanhope made a motion in the House of Lords condemning it, which was lost only by two votes.