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From the Americas to the roof of country-house follies, Matthew Dennison traces the journey of the pineapple, one of Georgian Britain’s most coveted fruits.
In the summer of 1767, it was a source of some surprise to the writer of the Manchester Mercury that Edward Higgins, committed to Carmarthen Castle for burglary, hadn’t included among booty stolen from the home of Mrs Biven of Laugherne any pineapples.
Having made himself comfortable in Mrs Biven’s kitchen to the extent of spreading a cloth on the table and lighting two candles in silver candlesticks before eating a chicken Higgins ‘got over a Wall into the Garden, and went into the Hot-house, where were many Pine-Apples fit to take’. Higgins, however, ‘took only four Cucumbers’.
The sumptuous Ham House in Richmond, South-West London, is described as a rare surviving example of 17th century luxury and taste .
But that hasn t prevented it from becoming the setting for a full-scale punch-up between Ian Maitland, 18th Earl of Lauderdale, and the National Trust.
At stake is the reputation of the first and last Duke of Lauderdale, who, together with his wife, is credited with transforming Ham into one of the grandest houses in Stuart England but who, the Trust now alleges, enriched himself via the slave trade.
Ian Maitland, a direct descendant of the Duke s younger brother, derides the allegation as rubbish scholarship .
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