Lydiard Park is a 260-acre country park at Lydiard Tregoze, which was its former name, about 3 miles west of central Swindon, Wiltshire, England, in West Swindon parish, near Junction 16 of the M4 mot
Lydiard Park collage
Part of lake and park, with house and church tower in the background
Vernon Henry St John, 6th Viscount Bolingbroke was a British peer. He was the fourth child of Henry St John, 5th Viscount Bolingbroke and his wife Mary Elizabeth Emily, a former domestic. The couple's
Lydiard Park
…much helped in 1955 when some good furniture arrived on loan from the National Art Collections Fund, part of the E. E. Cook bequest. During the 1960s Lord Bolingbroke loaned several St John family portraits to the house and later sold them to the corporation. When he died in 1974, he bequeathed to the trustees of the…
Vernon Henry St John's gravestone at his burial (with his carer) at St Mary's Church, Lydiard Tregoze