We gingen eten in een wel heel klein, maar prachtig Midsomerachtig dorp, St Ewe (568 inwoners) genaamd.
De 16e eeuwse Crown Inn was nog gesloten. Om de tijd te doden namen we een kijkje in het eeuwenoude kerkje.
The parish church is dedicated to St Ewe, a female saint of whom very little is known.
She is believed by hagiographers to be Saint Avoye of Sicily, although traditions about her life vary in content.
The church was originally a Norman cruciform building: the tower and spire were added in the 14th century and the south aisle in the 15th. There is a Norman font and a fine 15th-century rood screen.
The small manor of Lanewa was for a long time linked to the advowson of the church; it was probably the secular successor to a Celtic monastery.
Een Nederlandse naam viel direct op.
Manlief legde bijna direct de link met de bank Mees&Hope en hij bleek gelijk te hebben.
Dit is wat ik dankzij Dictionary of National Biography over John Hope, die oorspronkelijk Williams heette, vond.
HOPE, JOHN WILLIAMS (1757–1813), banker and merchant, born in 1757 at St. Ewe rectory, Cornwall, was eldest son of William Williams, rector of St. Ewe, and Elizabeth, daughter of Francis Gregor of Trewarthenick.
He began life as a clerk in the banking-house of Hope & Co. in Amsterdam, and eventually became partner.
He married Anne, daughter of John Goddard of Rotterdam and Woodford Hall, Essex, and a niece of Henry Hope, one of the chief partners in the bank, a nephew of Adrian Hope, and a near kinsman of Thomas Hope (1770?–1831).
Williams assumed the name of Hope at first in addition to his own, but subsequently dropped the name of Williams altogether.
On the return of Henry Hope with other members of his family to England in 1794, Williams-Hope managed the business in Amsterdam, and was elected one of the eight statesmen of Holland.
He continued to hold that office until the establishment of the monarchy under Louis Bonaparte in 1806, when he returned to England. Under the will of Henry Hope, who died in 1811, Hope's wife and children received large legacies, and he himself, as residuary legatee, became possessor of houses at Sheen and in Harley Street, Cavendish Square, London, with two fine collections of pictures (Gent. Mag. 1811, pt. i. p. 293).
Sir Joshua Reynolds painted a portrait of Mrs. Hope, which was engraved in mezzotint by C. H. Hodges. Hope died in Harley Street 12 Feb. 1813, and was buried at St. Ewe. He left a large fortune to his two surviving children, William (see below) and Henrietta Dorothea Maria, who married, first, the seventh earl of Athlone, and, secondly, William Gambier, esq.
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Hope's veertienjarige zoon John Francis verdronk tragisch tijdens zijn schooltijd op Eton.
↑Jacky toonde totaal geen respect voor de doden.
↓Wij genoten van een lekkere, gezellige avond in deze sfeervolle pub.
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