Lettice Fisher (nee Ilbert) was born in 1875 in Kensington, London, to Lady Jessie and Sir Courtenay Peregrine Ilbert, a lawyer who was soon to become Clerk of the House of Commons. She was one of the earliest female students at Somerville College, Oxford and as such, Herbert (HAL) agreed to take her on as a pupil.

This article written by Jackie Rickenberg was published in the Parish Magazine in January and February 2022 Many of you, like me, may have been intrigued over the last year or so with the current refurbishment of Witley Park. The number of contractors vehicles entering and leaving daily, the shielded scaffolding over the lodge houses, and not least the whisperings of grandiose extravagance are all rather eerily reminiscent of past times when the Victorian mansion was original

We remember him as Vicar of Thursley from 1968 until his retirement in 1976. For Thursley they were eight splendid years.

This article written by Jackie Rickenberg was published in the Parish Magazine in August 2022 This is the final story of the Fisher...

This article written by Jackie Rickenberg was published in the Parish Magazine in February and March 2021 After our recent articles...

This article written by Jackie Rickenberg was published in the Parish Magazine in July 2020 As we know, the recent fire on Thursley...

This article written by Jackie Rickenberg was published in the Parish Magazine in April 2021 Following on from the piece last month on...

This article written by Jackie Rickenberg was published in the Parish Magazine in January 2021 Malcolm Henry Arnold, composer, 1921 –...

This article written by Jackie Rickenberg was published in the Parish Magazine in August 2020 to mark the retirement of Michael as...

Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens was an English architect who designed many war memorials, English country houses and public buildings in the...

Cobbett was an English radical pamphleteer, journalist, author, politician and farmer born. in Farnham Surrey. This article is from the...

William Karn Fosberry, blacksmith of Thursley

This was published in 1996 by the History of Thursley Society and includes profiles of the young Lutyens, Robert Goble and Monica Edwards....

Now, what was it about this honourable man’s life and ultimately, his death, that made it into a best-selling book and film?