Huttleston Broughton
1st Lord Fairhaven
Huttleston Broughton (1896 - 1966) was the son of Urban Broughton who made a fortune in the
United States around the turn of the century from mining and railways. His mother was Cara Rogers, a New York heiress.
Educated in America and at Harrow, Huttleston Broughton served in the 1st Life Guards in the Great War and on Urban Broughton's death in 1929, was granted the Barony that was destined for his father.
He did not marry and in 1961 a second Barony was conferred on him with the remainder to his brother, Henry Broughton.
The Broughton brothers bought the Anglesey estate in 1926 because its position, conveniently close to Newmarket, where they owned the Barton Stud, enabled then to indulge their interest in horse racing, while the surrounding country provided very good partridge shooting.
Much of the American fortune, which the 1st Lord Fairhaven inherited, was energetically deployed in the collection of works of art and the Abbey is now the permanent home of an outstandingly rich collection of furniture, pictures and objets d'art.
Of his achievements as a patron of landscape gardening, Sir Arthur Bryant has written
"Huttleston Fairhaven must be almost unique in having created in the middle of the twentieth century a garden which can compare with the great masterpieces of the Georgian era.
With patience, single minded devotion and flawless taste, in an age of war and revolution he has endowed the England of tomorrow with a landscape garden worthy of her past."
From an early stage Lord Fairhaven was determined ultimately to make Anglesey Abbey and it's garden the property of the nation.
Protective covenants were given to the National Trust as early as 1943 and on his death in 1966 both house and garden were bequeathed for permanent preservation.
In his instruction to his Executors, Lord Fairhaven wrote in 1964 -
"My thought and hope is that in a changing world the house, it's furniture and it's arrangement, and the gardens and their layout should be preserved and kept representative of an age and a way of life that is quickly passing."
Anglesey is now the home of the 3rd Lord Fairhaven who continues to take an active interest in both house and garden.
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