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Portal:Cliveden
{{about|the British mansion|Benjamin Chew's mansion in Germantown, Pennsylvania|Cliveden (Benjamin Chew House)}}
[[Image:Cliveden-2382.jpg|thumb|400px|View looking north from the Ring in the Parterre showing Terrace Pavilion and Clock Tower to the left with Lower Terrace and Borghese Balustrade below]]

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Westminster was one of the wealthiest Englishmen of the period<ref>N.T. Guide, 1994, p.36.</ref> so it is understandable that he would want to contribute to Cliveden's architecture. Among his additions to the house and gardens are the ''[[porte cochere]]'' on the north front of the mansion, a new stable block and the [[dovecote]], all designed by Henry Clutton.

==Astor era==
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left|[[Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor|Nancy, Lady Astor]] by [[John Singer Sargent]]. The painting hangs at Cliveden.]]
In 1893 the estate was purchased by the American billionaire [[William Waldorf Astor]] (later 1st Lord Astor) who made sweeping alterations to the gardens and the interior of the house, but lived at Cliveden as a recluse after the early death of his wife. He gave Cliveden to his son [[Waldorf Astor|Waldorf]] on the occasion of his marriage to [[Nancy Astor|Nancy Langhorne]] in 1906 and moved to(contracted; show full)
Also at this time the entertainer [[Joyce Grenfell]], who was Nancy Astor's niece, lived in a cottage on the estate.<ref>N.T. Guide, 1994, p.26</ref> She also entertained injured troops in the hospital on the estate during World War II.

[[File:Cliveden War Cemetery, panorama.jpg|thumb|
righleft|300px|Cliveden War Cemetery in the Cliveden grounds]]
At the outbreak of [[World War I]], Waldorf Astor offered the use of some of the grounds to the [[Canadian Red Cross]] for the building of a hospital &ndash; the HRH Duchess of Connaught Hospital &ndash; which was dismantled at the end of the hostilities. In September 1939 with the outbreak of [[World War II]] Waldorf Astor again offered the use of the land at a rent of one [[shilling]] per year to the Canadian Red Cross and the [[Canadian Red (contracted; show full)[[Category:Historic house museums in Buckinghamshire]]

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