Tag: Farnham House

Broadway Visitors’ List, August 1889

The following visitors stayed in the village during August 1889 (from the list published in the Evesham Journal, 31 August 1889):

Broad Street (Mrs J. Stanley): Mr and Mrs Appleby and family (Birmingham).

Broad Street (Misses Tennent): Mr and Mrs Russell (Brighton), Sister Agatha (London).

Cowley House (Mrs Righton): Mr and Mrs Atkinson (India), Miss Weston (Salisbury), Mrs Dixon (London), Miss Roberts (Cheltenham).

Downside House (Mrs Herbert): Mr and Mrs Haynes-Williams and Miss Haynes-Williams.

Farnham House: Mr and Mrs Pemberton and family (Birmingham).

High Street (Mrs Newman): Mr Hingley (Birmingham)

Ivy House (Mrs A. Herbert): Mr and Mrs Milward and Miss Milward (Highgate), Miss Katie Manning (London)

The Knapp (Mrs S. Savage): The Rev. W. Flory and family (Leamington).

The Laurels (Mrs Arthur Smith): Mr and Mrs Manson and family (New York).

Lygon Arms Hotel (Mr Charles Drury): Mrs Huntingdon and family (New York), Mrs Bacon and family (America), Mr Bartlett.

Russell House: Mr and Mrs Frank D. Millet and family (New York), Mr Harold and Mrs Nettie Huxley Roller, Mr Edwin Austin Abbey (London).

Russell House Cottage: Mrs Barnard and family (London), the Misses Faraday (London).

Sunnyside (Mrs Kendrick): Mr J.T. Evans, Miss Evans and Mr J. Evans (New York).

Thomas Edgar Pemberton (1849-1895)

Thomas Edgar Pemberton, theatre historian, playwright, critic and biographer, was born at Heath Green Cottage, Heath Green, Birmingham on 1 July 1849. Pemberton was the eldest son of Thomas Pemberton, the head of an established firm of brass founders in Livery Street, Birmingham,  After education at school in Edgbaston, aged 19, Pemberton joined his father’s company, Messrs. Pemberton and Sons, and in due course gained control of the business, with which he was connected until 1900.

Pemberton married on 11 March 1873, in the Old Meeting House, Birmingham, Mary Elizabeth Townley, second daughter of Edward Richard Patie Townley of Edgbaston.

In 1885, Pemberton and his family moved to Broadway and they lived at Farnham House for four years before moving to Pye Corner House where he died in 1895.

Pemberton was a member of the Birmingham Dramatic and Literary Club and President and Honorary Secretary of Our Shakespeare Club. HIs funeral took place at St Eadburgha’s Church,  Broadway, in October 1905 and he is buried in the churchyard. The service was conducted by the Rev. F.A. Morgan (Vicar of Broadway), B.L. Hall (Curate of Broadway), G.A. Jackson (St Mary’s, High Leigh) and F. Madona (Vicar of Cheadle and Pemberton’s uncle).

His wife continued to live at Pye Corner before moving to Sands Meadow which was built for her in 1914. Mary Pemberton continued to live at Sands Meadow until her death in 1938.