Eversley, Heversham, Cumbria

Eversley, Heversham, Cumbria

Apr 24, 2026

Eversley is a mid‑Victorian limestone country house near Milnthorpe in south Cumbria, once in old Westmorland, looking across the Kent estuary to the Lakeland fells. Built in the 1850s for cotton merchant Frank Atkinson Argles, it later became the Drew family home...
The Wakefields & Christys of County Down

The Wakefields & Christys of County Down

Aug 11, 2021

This family history is a spin-off from the story of the Fennells of Burtown House, County Kildare, Ireland, which was originally compiled in 2004. I am much indebted to many people for their ongoing assistance; the acknowledgments can be found at the bottom of this...
The Benson Family

The Benson Family

Aug 11, 2021

Originally from Westmoreland in the English Lake District, the Bensons were renowned for their clerical inclinations from the Tudor Age onwards. They were also closely associated with the Downshire Estates in Ireland and, later, the Pony Club in the UK. This history...
Origins – The Drew Family of Glasgow, Scotland

Origins – The Drew Family of Glasgow, Scotland

Aug 11, 2021

Beginning with a maltman named John Drew in 1577 and a later marriage to Bethia Hamilton, the family rose with Glasgow’s Atlantic trade, spread to colonial New Brunswick and Australia, and eventually linked into Scottish gentry, colonial judiciary and a bearded...

The Remarkable Albums of Sylvia Drew

Aug 11, 2021

(This article appeared in The World of Interiors, September 2011) In my father’s childhood, the albums lay upon a table in the bay window of the Drew family home in the Lake District. There were four of them, 12” x 16” landscapes, bound in burgundy calf leather. After...