18 Stafford Terrace – The Sambourne Family Home

Address: | 18 Stafford Terrace, Kensington, W8 7BH |
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Phone: | Mon–Fri 020-7602 3316, Sat–Sun 020-7938 1295 |
Website: | |
Opening times: | Open for guided tours only. Wed 11:15, 14:15, Sat-Sun 11:15, 13:00, 14:15, 15:30 |
How to get there: | Tube: High Street Kensington |
Entry fee: | Admission charge |
Additional information: | No disabled access. Shop |
No. 18 Stafford Terrace is the very carefully preserved Victorian and Edwardian family home of the Sambourne family. Edward Linley Sambourne (1845–1910), chief political cartoonist of Punch, known to his wide circle of friends and acquaintances as Linley, or Lin, bought the house in 1875, four years after securing a staff job on the top satirical magazine, having spent four contributing as a freelancer. The year before he had inherited from his artistic aunt, a great encourager of his drawing talent, the modest private income that allowed him to marry Marion Herapath, a match that her family, living in Phillimore Gardens nearby, considered disappointing. A year later, their first child was born: Maud, later Maud Messel, and mistress of Nyman’s in the Sussex Weald, with its fabulous gardens. Their son Roy (b. 1878) later inherited this house. |
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