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Built on St Leonards Hill in Windsor in Berkshire, England, the 144 acre St Leonards Estate included rolling parkland and the 110-room country house once owned by the American Horace Elgin Dodge Jr. (son of Horace Elgin Dodge of Dodge Motor Cars) and occupied by the Kennedy family during World War II, when Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. was the US ...
The house was bought by William Harcourt, 3rd Earl Harcourt in 1781 and, after remaining in the Harcourt family for over a century, it was acquired by Sir Francis Barry, 1st Baronet in 1872. [1] Barry made substantial alterations in the Châteauesque style and renamed it St Leonard's Hill. [3]
1965/66 Billy Smart bought the St. Leonards Estate, Windsor, from the Dodge family, of Dodge auto manufacturer. The Kennedy family spent some time living in this house, during the Second World War, when Joseph Kennedy (JFK’s father) was United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom, from 1938 until late 1940.
Clewer, Berkshire is the site of St Leonard's House (formerly Sophia Lodge) & now the headquarters of Legoland Windsor, being formerly the HQ of Billy Smart's Windsor Safari Park. Several German churches are dedicated to the saint, including St. Leonhard, Frankfurt.
Billy Smart Jr., circus co-owner; lived in St. Leonard's mansion in the heart of Windsor Safari Park, where he entertained celebrated persons from Princess Margaret to the Beatles; he sold his St. Leonard's Hill guest house to comedian Freddie Starr; and later lived in Ascot Place, which is now apartments and has a plaque and statue dedicated ...
The Priory, Old Windsor; Prospect Park; Purley Hall; Purley Park; Rooksnest; Royal Lodge; St Leonard's; St Leonard's Dale; St Leonard's Hill (demolished 1924) Sandleford Priory; Shaw House; Shottesbrooke Park; Silwood Park; Sindlesham Court; Sonning Bishop's Palace; South Hill Park; Stanlake Park; Streatley House; Sulhamstead House; Sunningdale ...
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Beginning in Windsor, Ontario, Williams reorganized the city's Society of Saint Vincent de Paul, a benevolent organization. He also founded Windsor's Catholic Immigration Centre. [1] In Bramalea, Ontario, Williams founded the St. Leonard's Society of Canada, North America's first half-way house for released prisoners. [1]