Stuart McLeay

Tag: Claremont

  • Locating the Romany Camp at Claremont

    A note on the possible site of the Cooper family’s camp, and the history and layout of the Claremont estate. See also The Romany Family at Claremont. Victoria’s diaries tell us that the Romany camp at Claremont in December 1836 was by the Portsmouth Road — a number of her diary entries describe how the Cooper…

  • The Romany Family at Claremont – Part 1

    Part 1 – The Cooper Portraits Based on the informative articles by Sarah Murden in All Things Georgian (2016) and the helpful contextual discussions by Janet Keet-Black (2006), Eric Trudgill (2010), Jeremy Harte (2016, 2023), Alan Wright (2017) and David Cressy (2020), Victoria’s portraits of the Cooper family and her related diary entries are investigated…