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in Staffordshire, UK</div> <p> <b>The Wodehouse</b> is a <a href="/wiki/Listed_building" title="Listed building">Grade II* listed</a> <a href="/wiki/English_country_house" title="English country house">English country house</a> near <a href="/wiki/Wombourne" title="Wombourne">Wombourne</a>, <a href="/wiki/Staffordshire" title="Staffordshire">Staffordshire</a>, notable as the <a href="/wiki/Family_seat" title="Family seat">family seat</a> of the Georgian landscape designer and musicologist Sir Samuel Hellier and, a century later, Colonel <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Shaw-Hellier" title="Thomas Shaw-Hellier">Thomas Bradney Shaw-Hellier</a>, director of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Military_School_of_Music" title="Royal Military School of Music">Royal Military School of Music</a>. For almost 200 years the family owned the <a href="/wiki/Hellier_Stradivarius" title="Hellier Stradivarius">Hellier Stradivarius</a>. </p><p>It is claimed that the Wodehouse has not been sold for over 900 years,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> though more than once <a href="/wiki/Galton%E2%80%93Watson_process" title="Galton–Watson process">the family has died out</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="House,_garden,_and_estate"><span id="House.2C_garden.2C_and_estate"></span>House, garden, and estate</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Wodehouse&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: House, garden, and estate"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Wombourne_Wodehouse_south_pool.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Wombourne_Wodehouse_south_pool.jpg/285px-Wombourne_Wodehouse_south_pool.jpg" decoding="async" width="285" height="214" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Wombourne_Wodehouse_south_pool.jpg/428px-Wombourne_Wodehouse_south_pool.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Wombourne_Wodehouse_south_pool.jpg/570px-Wombourne_Wodehouse_south_pool.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2444" data-file-height="1833" /></a><figcaption>The south pool of the Wom Brook, in the grounds of the Wodehouse</figcaption></figure> <p>The Wodehouse is situated on the <a href="/wiki/Wom_Brook" title="Wom Brook">Wom Brook</a>, to the east of the village, and the <a href="/wiki/Estate_(house)" class="mw-redirect" title="Estate (house)">estate</a> has existed since medieval times. The <a href="/wiki/Manor_house" title="Manor house">manor house</a> itself was <a href="/wiki/Listed_building" title="Listed building">listed</a> by <a href="/wiki/English_Heritage" title="English Heritage">English Heritage</a> in 1953 as Grade II*,<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as were the <a href="/wiki/Stable" title="Stable">stable block</a> and <a href="/wiki/Coach_house" class="mw-redirect" title="Coach house">coach house</a> in 1963.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The early-eighteenth-century Wodehouse farmhouse and mill, across the road from the main house, were grade II* listed in 1973.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1987, the barn,<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the dam over the mill pool,<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the causeway over its other end<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> all received grade II status. </p><p>In the middle of the 18th century, the Wodehouse was turned into a centre of culture. The 18 acres (73,000 m<sup>2</sup>) of grounds were laid out in fashionable style: </p> <blockquote> <p>The Wodehouse [...] became in the later 18th century, an early <a href="/wiki/Alton_Towers" title="Alton Towers">Alton Towers</a>, the resort both of 'people of consequence' and of 'tag, rag and rabble' for here, in 1763, Sir Samuel Hellier laid out a <a href="/wiki/Pleasure_garden" title="Pleasure garden">pleasure garden</a> which, besides having all the usual decorative features of gardens of the time, temples, grottoes, a root house, a druid’s circle, also had a music room with working organ, a hermitage with life-sized model of a hermit and boards set up along the paths with appropriate verses to enlighten visitors. The whole garden was a clearly a caricature of the finest achievements in 18th-century gardening.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </blockquote> <p>Some of this, such as <a href="/wiki/Handel" class="mw-redirect" title="Handel">Handel</a>'s temple, was the first commission of <a href="/wiki/James_Gandon" title="James Gandon">James Gandon</a> after leaving the studios of <a href="/wiki/Sir_William_Chambers" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir William Chambers">Sir William Chambers</a>. A series of drawings of the garden features are all that survive.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Shaw Helliers and some of their properties are mentioned in the 1820 <i>Survey of Staffordshire</i>, but, curiously, not the Wodehouse itself.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Lewis_(publisher)" title="Samuel Lewis (publisher)">Samuel Lewis</a> in the 1848 edition of <i>A Topographical Dictionary of England</i> describes the property as "a noble mansion in the <a href="/wiki/Elizabethan_architecture" title="Elizabethan architecture">Elizabethan</a> style, situated in a beautiful vale".<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The house has a <a href="/wiki/Medieval_architecture" title="Medieval architecture">fourteenth century core</a>, with seventeenth-century additions and eighteenth-century internal refittings. It was restored by <a href="/wiki/George_Frederick_Bodley" title="George Frederick Bodley">George Frederick Bodley</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Gothic_revival" class="mw-redirect" title="Gothic revival">Gothic revival</a> architect, in the 1870s. A generation later, in the late 1890s, <a href="/wiki/Charles_Robert_Ashbee" title="Charles Robert Ashbee">Charles Robert Ashbee</a>, a leader in the English <a href="/wiki/Arts_and_Crafts_Movement" class="mw-redirect" title="Arts and Crafts Movement">Arts and Crafts Movement</a>, made additions such as a billiard room and a chapel,<sup id="cite_ref-list.english-heritage.org.uk_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-list.english-heritage.org.uk-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as well as many decorative external features.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1912, just after the estate changed hands, the Wolverhampton architect J.K.H.E. Lavender was engaged.<sup id="cite_ref-list.english-heritage.org.uk_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-list.english-heritage.org.uk-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The gardens continued to be opened to the public on certain occasions; for example, in 1936 the Wodehouse joined the <a href="/wiki/National_Gardens_Scheme" class="mw-redirect" title="National Gardens Scheme">National Gardens Scheme</a>, and as recently as in 2011 hosted the AGM of the Staffordshire Gardens and Parks Trust.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1984, the <i><a href="/wiki/Victoria_County_History" title="Victoria County History">Victoria County History</a></i> volume for south-west <a href="/wiki/Staffordshire" title="Staffordshire">Staffordshire</a> called the Wodehouse one of the "three great houses" of the area, along with <a href="/wiki/Enville,_Staffordshire" title="Enville, Staffordshire">Enville Hall</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the turn of the 21st century, <a href="/wiki/Michael_Raven_(author)" title="Michael Raven (author)">Michael Raven</a> describes the Wodehouse as "unspoilt", with the house having "a certain serene and mysterious charm" and the property overall "the classic configuration of an early medieval settlement".<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Inhabitants">Inhabitants</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Wodehouse&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Inhabitants"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="18th_century:_Sir_Samuel_Hellier">18th century: Sir Samuel Hellier</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Wodehouse&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: 18th century: Sir Samuel Hellier"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Wodehouse was acquired by Samuel Hellier by the 1720s. He was <a href="/wiki/Oxford_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Oxford University">Oxford</a> educated, and evidently, through his collections, open to new and foreign ideas. He was someone who first had a passion for eclectic knowledge and had already accumulated a substantial library and the core of an important collection of musical instruments. He died in 1751. His only son and heir, who bore the same name, was 14 and an orphan, his mother having predeceased his father. One of the boy's more sympathetic guardians was <a href="/wiki/Charles_Lyttelton_(bishop)" title="Charles Lyttelton (bishop)">Charles Lyttelton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dean_of_Exeter" title="Dean of Exeter">Dean of Exeter</a>, who encouraged him to study at <a href="/wiki/Exeter_College,_Oxford" title="Exeter College, Oxford">Exeter College, Oxford</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-JSTOR_link_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JSTOR_link-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As a young man, he wrote of his longing to marry, but never did so, blaming in part his finances. His maternal grandmother, Sarah Huntbach of Seawall, a dowager heiress, controlled the <a href="/wiki/Featherstone,_Staffordshire" title="Featherstone, Staffordshire">Featherstone</a> part of his estate.<sup id="cite_ref-localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Despite these constraints, he managed to redesign the Wodehouse's expansive gardens, as described above. He became <a href="/wiki/High_Sheriff_of_Staffordshire" title="High Sheriff of Staffordshire">High Sheriff of Staffordshire</a> like his father before him, <a href="/wiki/High_Sheriff" class="mw-redirect" title="High Sheriff">a position</a> now largely ceremonial but then the principal law enforcement officer of the county, and was knighted in 1762. In addition to the items for which he was famous, he collected beautiful or unusual objects: a gold cane-handle depicting the intertwining of the emblems of several local families was bequeathed to the <a href="/wiki/Ashmolean_Museum" title="Ashmolean Museum">Ashmolean Museum</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sir Samuel spent a great deal of money on collecting a musical treasure trove of instruments and newly published works.<sup id="cite_ref-JSTOR_link_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JSTOR_link-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was particularly interested in <a href="/wiki/Handel" class="mw-redirect" title="Handel">Handel</a>;<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> indeed, the catalogue accompanying the <a href="/wiki/National_Portrait_Gallery,_London" title="National Portrait Gallery, London">National Portrait Gallery</a> exhibition marking the tercentenary of the composer's birth calls Sir Samuel, and <a href="/wiki/Abolitionism_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Abolitionism in the United Kingdom">abolitionist</a> <a href="/wiki/Granville_Sharp" title="Granville Sharp">Granville Sharp</a>, two men of the late eighteenth century "who have left us solid evidence of the means by which they indulged their enthusiasm".<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was also a "prominent figure at the <a href="/wiki/Three_Choirs_Festival" title="Three Choirs Festival">Three Choirs Festival</a>",<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> one of the world's oldest classical choral music festivals.<sup id="cite_ref-3choirs_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3choirs-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>For centuries the families at the Wodehouse, as was usual for the <a href="/wiki/Squirearchy" class="mw-redirect" title="Squirearchy">squirearchy</a>, were closely connected with the <a href="/wiki/Church_of_England" title="Church of England">Church of England</a> in general and the <a href="/wiki/Church_of_England_parish_church" title="Church of England parish church">village church</a> in particular, which holds several memorials to them.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sir Samuel endowed both the ancient <a href="/wiki/St_Benedict_Biscop_Church,_Wombourne" title="St Benedict Biscop Church, Wombourne">parish church of St Benedict Biscop</a> in Wombourne and the new <a href="/wiki/St_John%27s_Church,_Wolverhampton" title="St John's Church, Wolverhampton">St John's Church, Wolverhampton</a>, which opened in 1760.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He provided an organ for his <a href="/wiki/Parish_church" title="Parish church">parish church</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and his correspondence with this organist regarding playing techniques has recently been rediscovered, and is cited approvingly.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sir Samuel's grandmother lived to be 99, and he survived not two years longer, dying in the autumn of 1784. He never married and left his property to his lifelong friend Thomas Shaw, minister at St John's Wolverhampton<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Perpetual_curate" title="Perpetual curate">perpetual curate</a> of <a href="/wiki/Claverley" title="Claverley">Claverley</a> <i>circa</i> 1765–1810.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A condition of inheritance was that the recipient <a href="/wiki/Name_change#Historical_usage" title="Name change">change his name to that of his benefactor</a>, and in 1786 Reverend Shaw became Shaw-Hellier. He lived at the Wodehouse with his wife Mary, worked at St. John's Wolverhampton and at <a href="/wiki/Tipton" title="Tipton">Tipton</a>, and died in 1812.<sup id="cite_ref-localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His son James, manager of <a href="/wiki/Netherton,_West_Midlands" title="Netherton, West Midlands">Netherton</a> <a href="/wiki/Coal_mining" title="Coal mining">colliery</a>, died in 1827;<sup id="cite_ref-localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk_18-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> he had also been known to steward the races at nearby <a href="/wiki/Penn,_West_Midlands#Penn_Common" title="Penn, West Midlands">Penn Common</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The family continued its close ties with St. John's Wolverhampton; in addition to Sir Samuel's endowment and his successor's work there, in 1820 a daughter of the house, Parthenia, married the minister.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sons of the house went into the ministry, including several successive generations named Thomas.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="19th_century:_Colonel_T._B._Shaw-Hellier">19th century: Colonel T. B. Shaw-Hellier</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Wodehouse&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: 19th century: Colonel T. B. Shaw-Hellier"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>For a period in the middle of the century <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Shaw-Hellier" title="Thomas Shaw-Hellier">Thomas Shaw-Hellier</a>, the grandson and direct heir of the Reverend Thomas Shaw, rented out the property. Being a keen huntsman, he preferred the country seats of <a href="/wiki/Packwood_House" title="Packwood House">Packwood House</a> and latterly <a href="/wiki/Rodbaston_Hall" class="mw-redirect" title="Rodbaston Hall">Rodbaston Hall</a>. In his absence, <a href="/wiki/Philip_Stanhope,_1st_Baron_Weardale" title="Philip Stanhope, 1st Baron Weardale">Philip Stanhope, 1st Baron Weardale</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> politician, pacifist, and philanthropist, and his wife Alexandra Tolstoy apparently lived for a time in the Wodehouse. Stanhope <a href="/wiki/1886_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1886 United Kingdom general election">was elected to Parliament in 1886</a>, sitting first for nearby <a href="/wiki/Wednesbury_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Wednesbury (UK Parliament constituency)">Wednesbury</a>. One of their houseguests at the Wodehouse was <a href="/wiki/William_Ewart_Gladstone" title="William Ewart Gladstone">William Ewart Gladstone</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The second historically significant musical person from the Wodehouse is Colonel Thomas Bradney Shaw-Hellier (1836–1910). He made a career in military music, spending several years as commandant of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Military_School_of_Music" title="Royal Military School of Music">Royal Military School of Music</a> at <a href="/wiki/Kneller_Hall" title="Kneller Hall">Kneller Hall</a>, where a prize for composition—a gold-mounted baton—was named in his honour.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was responsible for the Musical Division of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Military_Exhibition" title="Royal Military Exhibition">Royal Military Exhibition</a> at Chelsea in 1890. Over the five-month exhibition, he brought 74 military bands from all over the country to perform by the <a href="/wiki/River_Thames" title="River Thames">River Thames</a>. A large collection of musical instruments, particularly <a href="/wiki/Wind_instrument" title="Wind instrument">wind instruments</a>, was displayed, and a catalogue was issued the following year under his direction.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was also a <a href="/wiki/Liveryman" class="mw-redirect" title="Liveryman">liveryman</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Worshipful_Company_of_Musicians" title="Worshipful Company of Musicians">Worshipful Company of Musicians</a>, donating a banner and co-organising the tercentenary celebrations at the beginning of the 20th century.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His military career saw him rise to command the <a href="/wiki/4th_Royal_Irish_Dragoon_Guards" title="4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards">4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He was a <a href="/wiki/Gentleman_farmer" title="Gentleman farmer">gentleman farmer</a>, described as a leading breeder of <a href="/wiki/Jersey_cattle" title="Jersey cattle">Jersey cattle</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Like his predecessor, he supported the <a href="/wiki/Established_church" class="mw-redirect" title="Established church">established church</a>, in his case commemorating the quincentenary of <a href="/wiki/Winchester_College" title="Winchester College">Winchester College</a> by endowing <a href="/wiki/Winchester_Cathedral" title="Winchester Cathedral">the Cathedral</a> with altar and fittings.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He is listed in <i>The Charitable Ten Thousand</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="20th_and_21st_centuries">20th and 21st centuries</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Wodehouse&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: 20th and 21st centuries"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Gloeden,_Wilhelm_von_(1856-1931)_-_n._..._-_Taormina_-_Teatro_greco.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Gloeden%2C_Wilhelm_von_%281856-1931%29_-_n._..._-_Taormina_-_Teatro_greco.jpg/220px-Gloeden%2C_Wilhelm_von_%281856-1931%29_-_n._..._-_Taormina_-_Teatro_greco.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="162" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Gloeden%2C_Wilhelm_von_%281856-1931%29_-_n._..._-_Taormina_-_Teatro_greco.jpg/330px-Gloeden%2C_Wilhelm_von_%281856-1931%29_-_n._..._-_Taormina_-_Teatro_greco.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Gloeden%2C_Wilhelm_von_%281856-1931%29_-_n._..._-_Taormina_-_Teatro_greco.jpg/440px-Gloeden%2C_Wilhelm_von_%281856-1931%29_-_n._..._-_Taormina_-_Teatro_greco.jpg 2x" data-file-width="857" data-file-height="633" /></a><figcaption>The Greek Theatre in Taormina, by Wilhem von Gloeden</figcaption></figure> <p>In the words of one local historian who has documented the <a href="/wiki/Gentry" title="Gentry">gentry</a> families of the area, "The whole inter-marrying and single child families came to a sterile conclusion in 1898 when Thomas Bradney Shaw-Hellier married Harriet Bradney Marsh Evans".<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They <a href="/wiki/Cousin_marriage" title="Cousin marriage">were distant cousins</a>; he was over, and she was almost, 60 years old: they had no children. The marriage was characterised as "disastrous, wild, brief"<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and his response was to leave England and set himself a new project. He moved to <a href="/wiki/Sicily" title="Sicily">Sicily</a>, then in its heyday for the British visitor, and settled in <a href="/wiki/Taormina" title="Taormina">Taormina</a>, a place welcoming to artists and homosexuals, and made more so by the artistic nude photographs of <a href="/wiki/Wilhelm_von_Gloeden" title="Wilhelm von Gloeden">Wilhelm von Gloeden</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One of his expat friends there was the artist <a href="/wiki/Robert_Hawthorn_Kitson" title="Robert Hawthorn Kitson">Robert Hawthorn Kitson</a>;<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> another in his circle was the writer <a href="/wiki/Robert_Smythe_Hichens" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert Smythe Hichens">Robert Smythe Hichens</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1907 Shaw-Hellier commissioned Ashbee, who had renovated the Wodehouse a decade before, to build him a marble villa on the hilltop to rival <a href="/wiki/Robert_Hawthorn_Kitson#Casa_Cuseni" title="Robert Hawthorn Kitson">Kitson's Casa Cuseni</a>. They named it Villa <a href="/wiki/Saint_George" title="Saint George">San Giorgio</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> after the <a href="/wiki/Patron_saint" title="Patron saint">patron saint</a> of England, and with a nod to <a href="/wiki/John_Ruskin" title="John Ruskin">John Ruskin</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Guild_of_St_George" title="Guild of St George">Guild of St George</a>, which had been set up to re-value art and craftsmanship. (Shaw-Hellier asked <a href="/wiki/John_Beazley" title="John Beazley">John Beazley</a>, later a world expert but then newly graduated from Oxford, to catalogue all the potsherds unearthed by the construction.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) <a href="/wiki/Fiona_MacCarthy" title="Fiona MacCarthy">Fiona MacCarthy</a>, the biographer of the architect, judges it "the most impressive of Ashbee's remaining buildings".<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It survives as the Hotel Ashbee. </p><p>McCarthy also gives some insight into the life and spirit of the <i>Colonelle inglese</i>. Ashbee was gay or bisexual, and she thinks Shaw-Hellier may have been too.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Ashbees saw him as childlike, "perpetually young" and sprightly even in his 70s, enthusiastic, unpompous, devoted "to all the little simple helpful things of life", and erratic in his musical taste. He died in Sicily in 1910. </p><p>The estate passed to his nephew Evelyn Simpson, who changed his name to Shaw-Hellier; his ancestors had owned a brewery in <a href="/wiki/Baldock" title="Baldock">Baldock</a> since the 1770s. On his death in 1922, the estate passed to Evelyn's daughter Evelyn Mary Penelope Shaw-Hellier, his son having been killed in <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The two surviving Shaw-Hellier sisters lived in the Wodehouse (and possibly also in the Villa San Giorgio<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>), maintaining their connections with the church and village (e.g. donating a substantial sum of money towards the building of a second church) and were described as "delightfully <a href="/wiki/Edwardian_era" title="Edwardian era">Edwardian</a> [with] a taste for fast motoring".<sup id="cite_ref-ml.oxfordjournals.org_57-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ml.oxfordjournals.org-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The last of the pair died in 1980, and the Wodehouse—still without being sold—passed to distant relatives, the Phillips, who live there privately, occasionally opening the house and grounds to the public.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Wodehouse still holds a significant collection of 18th century drinking glasses, as well as portraits and porcelain.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>There is a Shaw Hellier Avenue named after the family, in the nearby <a href="/wiki/Brierley_Hill" title="Brierley Hill">Brierley Hill</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Musical_legacy">Musical legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Wodehouse&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Musical legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The musical collection is most closely associated with Sir Samuel Hellier, but the most valuable item within it preceded him, and those who came after him maintained or added to the printed works and instruments. The <a href="/wiki/Hellier_Stradivarius" title="Hellier Stradivarius">Hellier Stradivarius</a> of <i>circa</i> 1679 is a violin made by <a href="/wiki/Antonio_Stradivari" title="Antonio Stradivari">Antonio Stradivari</a> of <a href="/wiki/Cremona" title="Cremona">Cremona</a>, <a href="/wiki/Italy" title="Italy">Italy</a>. <a href="/wiki/Tarisio_Auctions" title="Tarisio Auctions">Cozio</a>, an instrument authentication business, states that it was in the possession of Sir Edward Hellier in 1734,<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> so it is possible that the Englishman bought it directly from the elderly luthier himself, perhaps during a <a href="/wiki/Grand_tour" class="mw-redirect" title="Grand tour">grand tour</a>. It was kept by the family for almost two hundred years. In 1880, it was sold by Colonel Shaw-Hellier, but he repurchased it ten years later. Upon his death in 1910, it passed out of the family. It is now in the care of the Stradivari Foundation in Cremona, where it is on display at the <a href="/wiki/Museo_del_violino" class="mw-redirect" title="Museo del violino">Museo del violino</a>. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Galpin_Society" title="Galpin Society">Galpin Society</a> rediscovered the treasure trove in a room in the stableblock in the 1960s. A researcher who did some of the cataloguing the following decade states that it was rare to find a collection in which both instruments and books survive,<sup id="cite_ref-ml.oxfordjournals.org_57-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ml.oxfordjournals.org-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but the collection was split up soon afterwards. The instruments went to the <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Edinburgh University">Edinburgh University</a> Collection of Historic Musical Instruments.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A single one that was chosen or commissioned by Sir Samuel Hellier—in this case a <a href="/wiki/Trumpet" title="Trumpet">trumpet</a>—has been described in half a dozen journals and catalogues.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The other half of the collection, the written works, went to the <a href="/wiki/Music_library" title="Music library">music library</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Barber_Institute_of_Fine_Arts" title="Barber Institute of Fine Arts">Barber Institute of Fine Arts</a> at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Birmingham" title="University of Birmingham">University of Birmingham</a>, where its 860 items were fully documented by Ian Ledsham in 1999.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This includes rare copies of musical works, such as the Ten Voluntaries by <a href="/wiki/John_Bennett_(composer)" title="John Bennett (composer)">John Bennett</a>. In addition, and still at the Wodehouse, is a series of 165 letters Sir Samuel wrote to his <a href="/wiki/Bailiff" title="Bailiff">estate manager</a>, specifying how instruments were to be played and stored, a boon for the <a href="/wiki/Music_history" title="Music history">music historian</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-JSTOR_link_17-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JSTOR_link-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Non-musical gifts were made to museums as well. For example, a model of a 64-gun ship with rigging, made in the late 18th century, was donated to the <a href="/wiki/Pitt_Rivers_Museum" title="Pitt Rivers Museum">Pitt Rivers Museum</a> in the late 19th.<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Wodehouse&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Donington_le_Heath_Manor_House_Museum" title="Donington le Heath Manor House Museum">Donington le Heath Manor House Museum</a>, contemporary to the Wodehouse</li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_country_houses_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="List of country houses in the United Kingdom">List of country houses in the United Kingdom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grade_II*_listed_buildings_in_South_Staffordshire" title="Grade II* listed buildings in South Staffordshire">Grade II* listed buildings in South Staffordshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Listed_buildings_in_Wombourne" title="Listed buildings in Wombourne">Listed buildings in Wombourne</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Wodehouse&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://archive.halesowennews.co.uk/2007/5/18/86525.html">"Friends of Broadfield House". From the <i>Stourbridge News</i>, 18 May 2007</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot"><span title=" Dead link tagged June 2018">permanent dead link</span></a></i><span style="visibility:hidden; color:transparent; padding-left:2px">‍</span>]</span></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1232507">English Heritage list entry</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1277064">English Heritage list entry</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1277065">English Heritage list entry</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1232509">English Heritage list entry</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1232508">English Heritage list entry</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1277063">English Heritage list entry</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.midlandhistory.bham.ac.uk/issues/1986/reviews.pdf">J.R. Studd's review of <i>The Victoria County History of the County of Staffordshire</i>. Vol. XX. Edited by M. W. Greenslade. Oxford University Press for the Institute of Historical Research, 1984. xix+250 pp. 47 illustrations. 19 maps and plans.</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">[Peter Hayden in <i>Garden History</i>, Vol. 13, No. 1 (Spring, 1985)]</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>A survey of Staffordshire: containing the antiquities of that county</i> by <a href="/wiki/Sampson_Erdeswicke" title="Sampson Erdeswicke">Sampson Erdeswicke</a>, <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Harwood_(priest)" title="Thomas Harwood (priest)">Thomas Harwood</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51423"><i>A Topographical Dictionary of England</i> (1848)</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-list.english-heritage.org.uk-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-list.english-heritage.org.uk_12-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-list.english-heritage.org.uk_12-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1232507">Victoria County History, vol. 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J. Smith, 1817. p187</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-28">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>The Registration of Baroque Organ Music</i>. By <a href="/wiki/Barbara_Owen_(organist)" title="Barbara Owen (organist)">Barbara Owen</a>. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997. P102.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-29">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Stebbing_Shaw" title="Stebbing Shaw">Shaw, Stebbing</a>. <i>The History and Antiquities of Staffordshire</i> p164</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-30"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-30">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=166-mi1591&cid=1#1">Shropshire Archives "Some Notes on the Living of Claverley, Salop, based on the personal account book and other papers of the Rev Thomas Shaw, later Shaw Hellier" typescript by J S Allen</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-31"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-31">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090618055019/http://www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk/articles/PennCommon/Description.htm">"Penn Common by Bev Parker"</a>. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">14 January</span> 2010</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Penn+Common+by+Bev+Parker&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk%2Farticles%2FPennCommon%2FDescription.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Wodehouse" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-32"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-32">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=8igAAAAAYAAJ&dq=colonel+shaw-hellier&pg=RA4-PA710"><i>New Monthly Magazine</i>, 1820, p710</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-33"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-33">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.morganfourman.com/morganfurman.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/thomas-shaw-descendant-tree.jpg">Shaw-Hellier family history site</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-34"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-34">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.history.ac.uk/ihr/Focus/Victorians/gladston.html">Review by Eugenio F. Biagini of <i>Gladstone: Heroic Minister, 1865–1898</i>. Professor R. T. Shannon. London: Allen Lane, 1999, xvii+702 pp.</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-35"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-35">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=TS18980402.2.56&l=mi&e=-------10--1----2-all">"Band Gossip for Far and Near" by Tomtom. <i>Star</i>, Issue 6144, 2 April 1898, Page 6</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-36"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-36">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>A Descriptive Catalogue of the Musical Instruments recently exhibited at the Royal Military Exhibition, London, 1890.</i> Issued under the orders of Colonel Shaw-Hellier and compiled by Captain Charles Russell Day, Oxfordshire Light Infantry. Eyre & Spottiswoode, Government and General Publishers, London. xii, 254pp. 1891. Shaw-Hellier's introduction is transcribed <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.mcgee-flutes.com/Flutes%20at%20the%20Royal%20Military%20Exhibition,%20London,%201890.htm">here</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-37"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-37">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/stream/cu31924022246296/cu31924022246296_djvu.txt">Full text of <i>The Worshipful Company of Musicians</i>, 2nd ed. 1905</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-38"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-38">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1882/dec/01/egypt-the-expeditionary-force-the-late">Hansard record, HC Deb 01 December 1882 vol 275 cc494-5</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-39"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-39">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/22683/pages/5564/page.pdf">21 November 1862</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/London_Gazette" class="mw-redirect" title="London Gazette">London Gazette</a></i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-40"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-40">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=OW19000125.2.31&l=mi&e=-------10--1----0-all">English Jersey Society, quoted in FARM AND STATION, <i>Otago Witness</i>, 25 January 1900, Page 14</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-41"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-41">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The 1897 English Jersey Cattle Society's herd book, Volume 8, lists him too.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-42"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-42">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20346/20346-h/20346-h.htm#Footnote_2_2"><i>The Church Times</i> 20 August 1897, cited in the 2007 notes to <i>Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Winchester: A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See</i> by Philip Walsingham Sergeant 1899</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-43"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-43">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>The charitable ten thousand</i>. H. Grant, 1896</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-44"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-44">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.morganfourman.com/articles/the-wodehouse-wombourne/">Morgan Fourman</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-45"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-45">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">MacCarthy, Fiona.<i>The Simple Life: C.R. Ashbee in the Cotswolds</i>. University of California Press, 1981 (pg. 158)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-46"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-46">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Chaney, Edward. <i>The Evolution of the Grand Tour: Anglo-Italian Cultural Relations Since the Renaissance</i>. Frank Cass & Co., 1998. P38-39</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-47"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-47">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBoswell1994" class="citation book cs1">Boswell, David M. (1994). <i>The Kitsons and the arts: a Leeding family in Sicily and West Reading</i>. York: The University of York. p. 124.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Kitsons+and+the+arts%3A+a+Leeding+family+in+Sicily+and+West+Reading&rft.place=York&rft.pages=124&rft.pub=The+University+of+York&rft.date=1994&rft.aulast=Boswell&rft.aufirst=David+M.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Wodehouse" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-48"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-48">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBoswell1994" class="citation book cs1">Boswell, David M. (1994). <i>The Kitsons and the arts: a Leeding family in Sicily and West Reading</i>. York: The University of York. p. 126.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Kitsons+and+the+arts%3A+a+Leeding+family+in+Sicily+and+West+Reading&rft.place=York&rft.pages=126&rft.pub=The+University+of+York&rft.date=1994&rft.aulast=Boswell&rft.aufirst=David+M.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Wodehouse" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-49"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-49">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150611000131/http://www.ribapix.com/index.php?a=wordsearch&s=item&key=Wczo4OiJ0YW9ybWluYSI7&pg=1">"RIBA archive drawings"</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ribapix.com/index.php?a=wordsearch&s=item&key=Wczo4OiJ0YW9ybWluYSI7&pg=1">the original</a> on 11 June 2015<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">14 January</span> 2010</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=RIBA+archive+drawings&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ribapix.com%2Findex.php%3Fa%3Dwordsearch%26s%3Ditem%26key%3DWczo4OiJ0YW9ybWluYSI7%26pg%3D1&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Wodehouse" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-50"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-50">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">MacCarthy, Fiona.<i>The Simple Life: C.R. Ashbee in the Cotswolds</i>. University of California Press, 1981. Chapter 7, "The death of Conradin"</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-51"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-51">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBoswell1994" class="citation book cs1">Boswell, David M. (1994). <i>The Kitsons and the arts: a Leeding family in Sicily and West Reading</i>. York: The University of York. p. 125.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Kitsons+and+the+arts%3A+a+Leeding+family+in+Sicily+and+West+Reading&rft.place=York&rft.pages=125&rft.pub=The+University+of+York&rft.date=1994&rft.aulast=Boswell&rft.aufirst=David+M.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Wodehouse" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-52"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-52">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">MacCarthy, Fiona.<i>The Simple Life:C.R. Ashbee in the Cotswolds</i>. University of California Press, 1981. p 161</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-53"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-53">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">MacCarthy, Fiona.<i>The Simple Life: C.R. Ashbee in the Cotswolds</i>. University of California Press, 1981. p159: "Taormina was an obvious place for Colonel Shaw Hellier, retired soldier as he was with some artistic leanings, as susceptible as Ashbee – if not more so – to the glories of Sicilian boyhood, to choose to end his days." On the same page, she quotes a description by Ashbee of Shaw-Hellier's "bevy of Sicilian boy retainers...with large dreamy eyes".</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-54"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-54">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Mike Brown. "On the Trail of the Phillips", <i>Brewery History</i>, 111, pp. 37-63. 2003, based on Journal 49 October 1986.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-55"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-55">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.iln.org.uk/iln_years/year/1915.htm"><i>Illustrated London News</i> 1915</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-56"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-56">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">MacCarthy, Fiona.<i>The Simple Life: C.R. Ashbee in the Cotswolds</i>. University of California Press, 1981. Chapter 7, "The death of Conradin", footnote 1.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-ml.oxfordjournals.org-57"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-ml.oxfordjournals.org_57-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ml.oxfordjournals.org_57-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ml.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/pdf_extract/82/2/312">Review of Ledsham's 1999 catalogue, by P. Ward Jones. <i>Music and Letters</i> 2001 82(2):312-314</a>; <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1093%2Fml%2F82.2.312">10.1093/ml/82.2.312</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-58"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-58">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sdfas.org.uk/Visits.htm">Visit by the STAFFORD DECORATIVE & FINE ARTS SOCIETY</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-59"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-59">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.today/20120711072611/http://hhfs.org.uk/hhfs/?p=977">"Visit by the Hagley Historical and Field Society (July 2011)"</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://hhfs.org.uk/hhfs/?p=977">the original</a> on 11 July 2012<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">8 January</span> 2012</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Visit+by+the+Hagley+Historical+and+Field+Society+%28July+2011%29&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fhhfs.org.uk%2Fhhfs%2F%3Fp%3D977&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Wodehouse" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-60"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-60">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.gavinwilliamson.org/events/previous">South Staffordshire Conservative Association reception, September 2011</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-61"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-61">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.halesowennews.co.uk/archive/2007/05/18/1409965.Friends_of_Broadfield_House/"><i>Halesowen News</i>, from the <i>Stourbridge News</i>, first published Friday 18 May 2007</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140504021704/http://www.halesowennews.co.uk/archive/2007/05/18/1409965.Friends_of_Broadfield_House/">Archived</a> 4 May 2014 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> Friends of Broadfield House Glass Museum, report of visit.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-62"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-62">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cozio.com/Instrument.aspx?id=237">Cozio page on Hellier Stradivarius</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-63"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-63">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100128111437/http://www.music.ed.ac.uk/euchmi/cimcim/id/idtuk.html#EDINBURGH,%20SCOTLAND">"CIMCIM INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORY OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENT COLLECTIONS"</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.music.ed.ac.uk/euchmi/cimcim/id/idtuk.html#EDINBURGH,%20SCOTLAND">the original</a> on 28 January 2010<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">14 January</span> 2010</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=CIMCIM+INTERNATIONAL+DIRECTORY+OF+MUSICAL+INSTRUMENT+COLLECTIONS&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.music.ed.ac.uk%2Feuchmi%2Fcimcim%2Fid%2Fidtuk.html%23EDINBURGH%2C%2520SCOTLAND&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Wodehouse" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-64"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-64">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.today/20120905090645/http://www.music.ed.ac.uk/euchmi/ujt/ujt3280.html">"EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY COLLECTION OF HISTORIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS 18th century brass instruments"</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.music.ed.ac.uk/euchmi/ujt/ujt3280.html">the original</a> on 5 September 2012<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">14 January</span> 2010</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=EDINBURGH+UNIVERSITY+COLLECTION+OF+HISTORIC+MUSICAL+INSTRUMENTS+18th+century+brass+instruments&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.music.ed.ac.uk%2Feuchmi%2Fujt%2Fujt3280.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Wodehouse" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-65"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-65">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Volume 57, Number 3, March 2001. E-<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/search?fq=x0:jrnl&q=n2:1534-150X">1534-150X</a> Print <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/search?fq=x0:jrnl&q=n2:0027-4380">0027-4380</a>. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1353%2Fnot.2001.0030">10.1353/not.2001.0030</a>. A Catalogue of the Shaw-Hellier Collection in the Music Library, Barber Institute of Fine Arts, The University of Birmingham (review by David Hunter) <i>Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association</i> – Volume 57, Number 3, March 2001, pp. 610-611</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-66"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-66">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111005193622/http://england.prm.ox.ac.uk/noajax-individuals.foo?i_l=H&i_id=535">"ENGLAND: THE OTHER WITHIN Analysing the English Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum"</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://england.prm.ox.ac.uk/noajax-individuals.foo?i_l=H&i_id=535">the original</a> on 5 October 2011<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">14 January</span> 2010</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=ENGLAND%3A+THE+OTHER+WITHIN+Analysing+the+English+Collections+at+the+Pitt+Rivers+Museum&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fengland.prm.ox.ac.uk%2Fnoajax-individuals.foo%3Fi_l%3DH%26i_id%3D535&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Wodehouse" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Wodehouse&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>"'A sweet pretty instrument' -- Sir Samuel Hellier's Obsession" by Percy Young. British Institute of Organ Studies <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/search?fq=x0:jrnl&q=n2:0309-8052">0309-8052</a>. BIOS Reporter Volume 28, number 4, page 15. Oct 2004.</li> <li>Some of the complexity of the inheritances can be seen at <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=157-dde_4&cid=-1&Gsm=2008-06-18#-1">the Nottinghamshire Archives</a>.</li> <li>H. Montgomery-Massingberd, <i>The Field Book of Country Houses</i>, 1988.</li> <li><i>The Historic Gardens of England: Staffordshire</i>. <a href="/wiki/Timothy_Mowl" title="Timothy Mowl">Timothy Mowl</a> and Dianne Barre. Redcliffe Press, Bristol. 2009.</li> <li>"Royal National Service Institution" <i><a href="/wiki/The_Times" title="The Times">The Times</a></i> 26 March 1892. A report of Col. Shaw-Hellier's talk on The Organization of Military Bands.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Wodehouse&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>As part of the Jack Leighton Lectures at <a href="/wiki/Keele_University" title="Keele University">Keele University</a>. GARDENERS & GARDENING IN 18th & 19th CENTURY STAFFORDSHIRE – Sir Samuel Hellier (d1784) of Wodehouse, Wombourne, landscape gardener and man of taste by Douglas Johnson. Landscape and garden making at Keele 1700–1900 by Dr Keith Goodway. 9 Nov 1983 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.the-staffordshire-encyclopaedia.co.uk/view.php?id=92">Staffordshire Encyclopedia</a>.</li> <li>A diagram of the descendants of Rev. Thomas Shaw <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.morganfourman.com/morganfurman.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/thomas-shaw-descendant-tree.jpg">here</a></li> <li>And a 1930s photograph of the house and modern Google Map image <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.morganfourman.com/articles/the-wodehouse-wombourne/">here</a></li></ul> <p><span class="geo-inline-hidden noexcerpt"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=The_Wodehouse&params=52.5396_N_2.1704_W_type:landmark_region:GB"><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">52°32′23″N</span> <span class="longitude">2°10′13″W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">52.5396°N 2.1704°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">52.5396; 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