Greenlands, Henley-on-Thames

Greenlands, Henley-on-Thames

Country house situated by the River Thames, just outside Henley-on-Thames, on the Oxfordshire / Buckinghamshire border. Built in the nineteenth century, it is now the headquarters of Henley Management College.

The present building was built on the site of a previous house which was owned in the seventeenth century by the D’Oyley family, descendants of the Norman Robert D’Oyly. In the early nineteenth century, the land was owned by Thomas Darby-Coventry and a house called Greenland Lodge was built. The next owner, Edward Marjoribanks, enlarged the house but then sold it in 1868. It was bought by William Henry Smith, the entrepreneur responsible for establishing a chain of newsagents. He further extended the building, though its appearance received a cool reception from Jerome K. Jerome who joked in "Three Men in a Boat" that it was ‘the rather uninteresting-looking river residence of my newsagent.’ On Smith’s death, his family was ennobled with the title of Viscount Hambleden. Greenlands remained their home until immediately after the Second World War. In 1946, the 3rd Viscount rented the building to the Administrative Staff College, an initiative designed to provide management education to British men and women in all sectors of the economy and government. The Smith family moved into the village of Hambleden. Meanwhile, the Administrative Staff College opened its doors to course members in March 1948. In 1952, following the untimely death of Viscount Hambleden, the house was bought by the College. The Administrative Staff College was renamed Henley Management College in 1991, when it received its Royal Charter.


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