Blighty Brighton by Various

Author:Various [Various]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-904733-97-6
Publisher: QueenSpark Books
Published: 2015-10-02T00:00:00+00:00

'Official' photograph of The Dome as a hospital ward.

THE STANFORDS

& THE GOBLES

THE STANFORD FAMILY

In 1914 the Stanfords of Preston Manor could be considered the first family of Brighton. Charles Thomas had married into the Stanford family and became Charles Thomas-Stanford. Ellen Stanford was Lady of the Manor. Charles Thomas-Stanford was a Justice of the Peace and one of the Conservative MPs for Brighton. He had been Mayor of Brighton between 1911 and 1914. He was to remain in Parliament until 1922, receive the freedom of the town in 1925 and become a Baronet in 1929. Ellen Stanford was the direct descendent of the first William Stanford (1764-1851). Vere, the young First World War artillery officer, was her grandson. There was a great rift between Ellen Stanford and her son John Montague, who outlived his son Vere, dying in 1947; but there was a great bond between Ellen Stanford and her grandson, Vere. Had he not died in 1922 it is probable that Vere would have continued the Stanford line at Preston Manor.

The Stanfords were a typical upper class Edwardian family. Charles Thomas-Stanford had been to Oxford reading law, before going off to South Africa to become a friend of Cecil Rhodes and make money in diamonds. Initially a Liberal, he became a Conservative-Unionist, because he was against Home Rule for Ireland and a believer in Britain’s Imperial Destiny. Ellen played the Edwardian lady’s role supporting her husband and a number of “Good Causes”. Vere, her grandson, had the traditional education of his class, preparing him to become an officer and a gentleman. He went from a prep-boarding school to his father’s old house at Eton, then on to the college for artillery officers at Woolwich. He was commissioned into the Royal Field Artillery before the start of the war.

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