{"id":528,"date":"2014-11-09T20:58:41","date_gmt":"2014-11-09T20:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eatoncheshire.co.uk\/?page_id=528"},"modified":"2014-11-09T20:58:41","modified_gmt":"2014-11-09T20:58:41","slug":"the-antrobus-family","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.eatoncheshire.co.uk\/index.php\/eaton-community-news\/the-antrobus-family\/","title":{"rendered":"The Antrobus Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The major landowner in the village until very recently was the Eaton Hall Estate. This was owned by the Antrobus family, and several members of the village have strong ties with the estate with family having lived and worked on the estate.<\/p>\n<p>The information below was kindly supplied by Mr Neville Slater who&#8217;s wife\u00a0Maaike came to live at Eaton Hall when her father Eelke who served in the Prinses Irene Brigade was demobbed and got a job as butler\/handyman with Colonel and Mrs Antrobus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A short history to Col. and Mrs. Antrobus<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lt. Col. Ronald Henry Antrobus became custodian of Eaton Hall due to the death of his elder brother, Captain Charles Alexander Antrobus who died in action on 25<sup>th<\/sup> April 1915 at the age of 34.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Antrobus was born Muriel Kathleen Gosling and married Captain Henry Miles Chetwynd-Stapleton on 25<sup>th<\/sup> October 1915, sadly he was killed in action on 14<sup>th<\/sup> November 1915 age 28.<\/p>\n<p>She later married Ronald Henry Antrobus on 24<sup>th<\/sup> November 1921.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a picture of the Antrobus coach which Gibbs Crawford Antrobus used to attend the Congress of Vienna when he was in the service of the Duke of Wellington in 1815.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eatoncheshire.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/coach.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-529\" alt=\"coach\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eatoncheshire.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/coach.jpg\" width=\"1630\" height=\"1222\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.eatoncheshire.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/coach.jpg 1630w, http:\/\/www.eatoncheshire.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/coach-300x224.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.eatoncheshire.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/coach-1024x767.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1630px) 100vw, 1630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This coach is now in the National Trust Carriage Collection at Arlington Court, Barnstaple, Devon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The major landowner in the village until very recently was the Eaton Hall Estate. This was owned by the Antrobus <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eatoncheshire.co.uk\/index.php\/eaton-community-news\/the-antrobus-family\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":115,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eatoncheshire.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/528"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eatoncheshire.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eatoncheshire.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eatoncheshire.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eatoncheshire.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.eatoncheshire.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":531,"href":"http:\/\/www.eatoncheshire.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/528\/revisions\/531"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eatoncheshire.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eatoncheshire.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}