Ditchley (Ditchley Park or Ditchley House) is an Oxfordshire stately home designed by James Gibbs and built by in 1722 for the George Lee, 2nd Earl of Lichfield, a member of the Lee family. The current building replaced an earlier timber-framed. The area of was once the royal hunting ground of Wychwood Forest.^[1] Oxfordshire (abbreviated Oxon, from the Latinised form Oxonia) is a county in the South East of England, bordering on Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, and Warwickshire. ... A stately home is, strictly speaking, one of about 500 large properties built in England between the mid-16th century and the early part of the 20th century, as well as converted abbeys and other church property (after the Dissolution of the Monasteries). ... St Martins-in-the-Fields, London, is the prototype of many New England churches. ... // Events Abraham De Moivre states De Moivres theorem connecting trigonometric functions and complex numbers Publication of the first book of Bachs Well-Tempered Clavier Fall of Persias Safavid dynasty during a bloody revolt of the Afghani people. ... The Wychwood, or Wychwood Forest, is an area now covering a small part of rural Oxfordshire. ...

In September 1603 James I dined with Sir Henry Lee at Ditchfield.^[2] King James I of England/VII of Scotland, the first monarch to rule the Kingdoms of England and Scotland at the same time Events March - Samuel de Champlain, French explorer, sails to Canada March 24 - Elizabeth I of England dies and is succeeded by her cousin King James I of... James VI and I (James Stuart) (June 19, 1566 – March 27, 1625) was King of Scots, King of England, and King of Ireland. ... Henry Lee (portrait by William Edward West) For other people named Henry Lee, see Henry Lee (disambiguation). ...

Occupants of the Ditchley estate have included

• Sir Francis Henry Lee of Ditchley, 4th Bart of Quarendon
• Charlotte Lee, Countess of Lichfield illegitimate daughter of Charles II
• Ditchley is currently home to the Ditchley Foundation which aims to promote international (especially Anglo-American) relations

Charlotte Lee, Countess of Lichfield (5 September 1664–17 February 1718), formerly Lady Charlotte FitzRoy, was the daughter of Barbara Palmer, Countess of Castlemaine (née Barbara Villiers, later 1st Duchess of Cleveland) and King Charles II of England and Scotland. ... Charles II (29 May 1630 – 6 February 1685) was the King of England, King of Scots, and King of Ireland from 30 January 1649 (de jure) or 29 May 1660 (de facto) until his death. ... The Ditchley Foundation is a British organisation based at Ditchley House near Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, which aims to promote international relations, especially Anglo-American relations, through a program of around fifteen annual conferences on matters of international interest. ...

See Also

Ditchley is also the name of a Station on the Victorian Colac to Beech Forest and Crowes narrow gauge railway of Victoria, Australia. The former Victorian Railways, the state railway authority in Victoria, Australia built a number of experimental narrow-gauge railway lines around the beginning of the 20th century. ...

References

1. ^ http://www.ditchley.co.uk/page/37/ditchley-park.htm The Ditchley Foundation
2. ^ http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Bios/HenryLee.htm Tudorplace.com