The Edwardian Country House
Juliet Gardiner assesses the worth of ‘television history’ and pinpoints the value of ‘reality history’.
'Omne Bonum Superne’ (All Good Comes From Above) reads the inscription over the gate at Manderston, a neo-Classical country house set amidst fifty-six acres of formal gardens and parkland just over the border in the Scottish lowlands. The house was rebuilt on his return from the Boer War by Sir James Miller, a career soldier, who had inherited the estate from his father Sir William Miller, a Liberal MP who had made his money in the Baltic from hemp and herring. Miller commissioned the architect John Kinross to refurbish and extend his home in a manner appropriate to a member of the Edwardian nouveaux riches, one who had married the sister of Lord Curzon.
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