Florence was born in Sandhurst, Berkshire, to Rev. John Hepburne Merriott, an Oxford graduate and Assistant Master at Eton College, and his wife Caroline. He died in Winchester in 1919, living at Dormy Cottage, 49 St Cross Road, where Florence and her husband later came to live (father’s will: 5M64/40. Microfilm).

On 6 April 1841, Miss Selina Shirley of Eatington Hall, Warwickshire, recorded in her diary that she ‘walked in the Garden with Sir William [Heathcote] & promised to become his Wife’.  They were married on 18 May.  This was a second union for Heathcote, whose first wife, Caroline, had died in 1835, after bearing him…

C F C (Christopher) Hawkes spent his early years in London and Northumberland before attending Winchester College and New College, Oxford.

The ‘sporting exploits’ of Colonel Peter Hawker, considered one of the ‘great shots’ of the 19th century, were widely followed during his lifetime, and his Instructions to Young Sportsmen in All That Relates to Guns and Shooting was something of a best-seller.  When he wasn’t pursuing fish, fowl (or beast, for that matter) his diary…

On 6 April 1841, Miss Selina Shirley of Eatington Hall, Warwickshire, recorded in her diary that she ‘walked in the Garden with Sir William [Heathcote] & promised to become his Wife’.  They were married on 18 May.  This was a second union for Heathcote, whose first wife, Caroline, had died in 1835, after bearing him…

Born in Birmingham, Hearnshaw went to Walsall and Manchester Grammar Schools before leaving school at 14 years old to be apprenticed to a pharmaceutical chemist for five years.

Francis Haverfield was born at Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire to Rev William Haverfield and Emily his wife (née Mackarness).  His mother died when he was two and his father fell into a ‘hopeless and prolonged decline’.  Deprived of a normal home life, Francis developed an abruptness of manner which was apparently with him for the rest of…

The contributions of Arthur Goodman, Honorary Canon of Winchester Cathedral, should be considered in tandem with those of his wife, Florence, also profiled for CHH. He was born in Chapel-en-le-Frith, in the Derbyshre Peaks, the son of Thomas Devonport and Emily Jane Goodman. He lost his father at the age of 3, but was clearly…

The contributions of Arthur Goodman, Honorary Canon of Winchester Cathedral, should be considered in tandem with those of his wife, Florence, also profiled for CHH. He was born in Chapel-en-le-Frith, in the Derbyshre Peaks, the son of Thomas Devonport and Emily Jane Goodman. He lost his father at the age of 3, but was clearly…

John Hooper Harvey trained as an architect under his father and under Sir Herbert Baker. He worked before WW2 for the Ministry of Public Works, then as a lecturer in the Bartlett School of Architecture at University College, London from 1950-1959. He was Consultant Architect to Winchester College from 1947 to 1986, and Keeper of…