Talk:Edward Sugden, 1st Baron St Leonards

Thames Ditton
The article has a section on his connections with Thames Ditton. I've cut it out, as it doesn't seem to be notable enough to merit insertion. It's reproduced below, for future reference.

"Lord Saint Leonards was popular in Thames Ditton. In 1860 he entertained at Boyle Farm 250 children from the Wandsworth Asylum for female orphans of soldiers killed in the Crimea War. In the 1870s he also made a speech in the House of Lords against a proposal by the Chelsea Waterworks to buy 50 acres (200,000 m2) of meadow in Thames Ditton to build reservoirs. The village rejoiced when the House of Lords threw out the Bill. No doubt St Leonards was spurred on by the damage the Waterworks proposal would have done to his Boyle Farm estate."

Atchom (talk) 01:27, 9 July 2017 (UTC)