The National Trust is a heritage and nature conservation charity and membership organisation in the United Kingdom, operating in England, Wales and Northern Ireland only.
Octavia Hill by John Singer Sargent, 1898
The first building the trust acquired was Alfriston Clergy House in 1896.
Bodiam Castle was acquired by the Trust in 1926.
Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley was an Anglican priest, poet, local politician and conservationist. He became nationally and internationally known as one of the three founders of the National Trust for Pl
Parish church at Shiplake in Oxfordshire. Rawnsley was born in the rectory.
Octavia Hill (top) and Emma Cons
St Margaret, Low Wray, where Rawnsley was vicar from 1877 to 1883