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Engleheart, George Herbert

25 April 1851 – 15 March 1936

The Rev George Engleheart achieved national prominence as one of the greatest ever breeders of daffodils, but as a ‘highly cultured man, well read and appreciative of everything that is beautiful’ he also found time to indulge in the classical archaeology of his local Hampshire parishes.

Born on Guernsey, he attended Exeter College, Oxford and obtained his BA in 1874.  His first ecclesiastical posts were as curate at Lucton Village, Herefordshire. and St George’s Leicester, before moving to Chute Forest on the Hampshire-Wiltshire border. 

In 1881, married to Mary Evans and residing at Appleshaw, he began his experiments with daffodils. It was more than a decade later, however, that he concentrated on archaeology, digging at Clanville, Shoddesdon and Weyhill, and rediscovering a lost mosaic featuring Dionysus at Thruxton.  The remains of this pavement were lifted and transported to the British Museum (Winchester had no room for it!) and they also purchased the large number of pewter vessels, some with Christian markings, that he found at Weyhill.

In 1901 the Englehearts moved to Little Clarendon, Dinton, in Wiltshire, restoring a rundown 15th century house and using its 27 acre grounds for daffodil growing.  It is now a National Trust property.  Engleheart continued his archaeological activities with work at Hemsworth villa in Dorset, and an interest in the early explorations at Stonehenge.

Sources

Wiltshire OPC (on-line parish clerk) Project.

Portrait

George Engleheart

Contribution to county’s history

George Engleheart was keen to explore the remarkable cluster of Romano-British sites in northwest Hampshire. He ensured that his findings were made widely available and that museums had the opportunity to acquire objects of national significance.

Relevant published works

  • Engleheart G (1920) On Roman Buildings and other antiquities in a District of N W Hants. Proc Hants Field Club & Arch Soc9, 214 - 8

  • See also VCH Vol 1 265-349 Romano-British Hampshire.

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Contributor

Dave Allen November 2021

Keywords

Chute Forest, Little Clarendon, Romano-British sites, daffodils

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