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Mar 31, 2023 · Colonel Wyley was the last private owner of Charterhouse, and died in 1940. His wife had predeceased him and their only child had been killed at the Battle of the Somme in 1916. Upon his death, Colonel Wyley bequeathed Charterhouse and much of the surrounding land to the people of Coventry.
Feb 23, 2023 · It was bequeathed to the people of Coventry by its last resident Colonel William Wyley in 1940 as a museum and park. The site was used as part of Coventry College until 2011.
Educated at Charterhouse School, Baden-Powell served in the British Army from 1876 until 1910 in India and Africa. In 1899, during the Second Boer War in South Africa, Baden-Powell successfully defended the town in the Siege of Mafeking.
Coventry’s Charterhouse gained its first royal patron after Lord Zouche died. A young King Richard II, along with his queen Anne of Bohemia, declared themselves founders and on 6 September 1385, the king came in person to lay the foundation stone of the Carthusians’ new church.
Hastings Lionel Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay KG, GCB, CH, DSO, PC, DL (21 June 1887 – 17 December 1965) was a British politician, diplomat and general in the British Indian Army who was the first Secretary General of NATO. He also was Winston Churchill 's chief military assistant during the Second World War .
Aug 16, 2022 · Bill Wyley and his daughter, Emma Major, are descendants of Colonel William Fitzthomas Wyley, who was the last person to live at Charterhouse between 1889 and 1940. Bill said it has been wonderful to have a tour of the building which had such a special meaning to his family.
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Charterhouse was a home to the rich for many centuries, the last of which was Colonel Wyley, who made money from pharmaceuticals. In his will, industrialist Wyley left Charterhouse to us, the people of Coventry for use as a museum and / or arts centre when he passed in 1940.
