Talk:Barrow Green Court

Jeremy Bentham at Barrow Green Court
I have been trying to find sources to back up the claim that Barrow Green Court "once belonged to the English Utilitarian philosopher, Jeremy Bentham". Bentham was born in 1747 and, so far as I can tell, the Hoskins Master family (the major landowners in the Oxted area from 1587) owned Barrow Green Court from 1750* to 1960 (*earliest confirmed date, but could have been up to a century before that).

I have found a reference to Bentham staying at "Barrow Green House" from 1806 onwards, see page 3 of this article by Catherine Fuller, a property that he described as a "doghole" in comparison to his later country residence, Ford Abbey, in Devon. The source notes that Barrow Green House was owned by Susannah Chicheley Falkner, née Plowdern, who married Bentham's amanuensis, John Heide Koe, in December 1806.

I think it is reasonable to conclude that "Barrow Green Court" and "Barrow Green House" are not the same property. I will therefore remove the claim from the article. Best wishes Mertbiol (talk) 14:22, 24 October 2023 (UTC)