Bearwood House
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Bearwood or Bear Wood, in Sindlesham, Berkshire, England, is a Victorian country house built for John Walter, the owner of The Times. The architect was Robert Kerr and the house was constructed betwee
The house pictured in 2004
Print of Bearwood in the mid-19th century
View of Bear Wood in Francis Orpen Morris's The County Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
The garden front
John Walter Jr. was an English newspaper editor and politician. He was the son of John Walter, the founder of The Times, and succeeded his father as the newspaper's second editor.
Bearwood House
…coal merchant and underwriter, in 1785 John Walter had established The Daily Universal Register, renamed as The Times in 1788. In 1816 Walter's father, John Walter II purchased the Bear Wood estate in Berkshire from the Crown Estate and in 1822 built a small villa on the site of the present house. Nothing remains of…
John Walter II