Dalham Hall
| Dalham Hall | |
| Suffolk | |
|---|---|
 Dalham Hall | |
| Location | |
| Location: | 52°14’7"N, 0°31’25"E |
| Village: | Dalham |
| History | |
| Country house | |
| Information | |
| Owned by: | The Emir of Dubai |
Dalham Hall is a country house in the west of Suffolk, to the north of Dalham Village and east of Newmarket. The house is surrounded by its estate of 33,000 acrea, which extends to the Cambridgeshire border and includes a stud farm; one of many surrounding Newmarket and its racecourses.
The house is a Grade II listed building.
Simon Patrick (1626–1707), who swerved as Bishop of Chichester from 1689–1691 and as Bishop of Ely 1691–1707, purchased for himself an estate at Dalham in December 1702, and he commissioned the building of Dalham Hall. John Affleck Esq. acquired the estate from the Bishop’s widow in 1714.
After passing through Affleck's family, Cecil Rhodes, the Empire-builder of southern Africa, bought the estate in 1901, on the evidence of photographs, and tales of its game shooting.[1] After he died in 1902 before taking possession, his brother Francis William Rhodes and his family lived in the hall. They erected a hall in the village in Cecil Rhodes' memory.[2]
The estate was bought in 1928 by Laurence Philipps, a shipping magnate who established what became known as the Dalham Hall Stud.
In 1981 Major Jim Philipps sold the stud out of the estate – the buyer was Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates. After the major died in 1984, his trustees sold the rest of the estate for £45 million to Sheikh Mohammed.[3]
References
- ↑ "Will of Mr. Cecil Rhodes". The New York Times. 1902-04-13. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B05E5D81230E733A25750C1A9629C946397D6CF. Retrieved 2009-07-04.
- ↑ "Dalham Village Hall Commemoration Plaque by Colonel Frank Rhodes". http://www.dalham.com/plaque.jpg.
- ↑ Conradi, Peter (2009-07-04). "Racing king buys piece of empire". London: The Times. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6638124.ece. Retrieved 2009-07-04.
- Cecil Rhodes & William Thomas Stead (1902). The last will and testament of Cecil John Rhodes: with elucidatory notes to which are added some chapters describing the political and religious ideas of the testator. "Review of Reviews" Office. http://www.archive.org/details/lastwilltestamen00rhodiala.