A day trip to Leicestershire for my cousin’s ninetieth birthday party in a house which is nicely unchanged, first built in 1703 for the Rev. Edward Wells and lived in for many generations by a family of Marriott squarsons – a Queen Anne rectory where the last major changes (apart from the addition of a Victorian nursery and servants’ hall) were made not long after 1759 when the Marriotts first moved in:-
| Charles | Saumarez | Smith | 
I am indebted to you for a new word – squarson
It was such a lovely party and it is strangely soothing to the soul to be in that house, it always has been. Sophie works so hard and with such passion she is always an inspiration to me. I’m sorry I didn’t meet you at the party but my youngest boy meant there was a representative from the first to the tenth decade! Thank you for the lovely photos.
Suzy Denbigh
Newnham Paddox