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21st September 1915: Cecil Chubb, Stonehenge’s last private owner, wins it at auction
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:02:53
Publish Date: 2017-09-20 21:05:34
Description: Cecil Chubb became the last private owner of Stonehenge, having bought the Neolithic monument at auction. Chubb grew up four miles away from the famous stones in the English village of Shrewton, where his father was the village saddler and harness maker. He won a place at a grammar school and later attended Christ's College, Cambridge before becoming a barrister. Chubb had amassed a considerable fortune by the time he attended an auction at the Palace Theatre in Salisbury on 21 September 1915. The company Knight Frank and Rutley auctioned Stonehenge on behalf of its former owners, the aristocratic Antrobus family, ...
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