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5 unusual facts about Wivenhoe House


Wivenhoe House

In 1816, owner Major-General Francis Slater Rebow commissioned John Constable to commit the house to canvas for the fee of 100 guineas.

When General Rebow died in 1845 the estate passed to his son-in-law, future English Liberal Party MP John Gurdon Rebow.

The house once also served as the headquarters of the SAS.

A partnership between the University of Essex, independent education foundation Edge and Kaplan Open Learning was created to manage the hotel upon its re-opening in 2012 under the name of the Edge Hotel School.

John Gurdon Rebow died in 1870 and passed the estate to his son Hector Gurdon Rebow, during whose ownership Wivenhoe House survived England's worst-ever earthquake in 1884.



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