Talk:Encombe House

Today
The Today section describes the present owner as only the sixth owner of the house in 1100 years. That sounds extraordinarily unlikely, unless the previous five were exceptionally long-lived. KJP1 (talk) 16:15, 7 March 2017 (UTC)
 * That's clearly a mistake. Perhaps they meant the sixth family line to own it? But I can't find an alternative source to those stating this. --Bermicourt (talk) 19:56, 7 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Indeed, it must mean something like that, but it's not saying that at present. I'll keep looking too. KJP1 (talk) 20:03, 7 March 2017 (UTC)
 * If you read the history section, it names only 4 'family' lines that have owned the estate previously:
 * 948: Abbess of Shaftesbury / Shaftesbury Abbey
 * 1552: Culliford family
 * 1734: Pitt family
 * Unspecified date: Earls of Eldon
 * Whether this is correct, I am not able to say - my sources rather mysteriously have very little to say about the house. PaleCloudedWhite (talk) 20:32, 7 March 2017 (UTC)
 * This would make sense, if it read something like, "becoming only the sixth family to own the house in 1100 years." I have a vague memory it was owned by a fund manager in the early 2000s. This says it was sold in 2002 . Which would fit with it being sold again in 2009 to the sixth family. Will continue digging. KJP1 (talk) 21:03, 7 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Yep, it means the sixth family. This  shows it was owned by merchant banker Charles McVeigh from 2002 to 2008; "Encombe Estate in Dorset is being sold for only the fifth time in its 1,100 year history." I'll amend. KJP1 (talk) 21:10, 7 March 2017 (UTC)

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