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5 unusual facts about Wivenhoe House


Wivenhoe House

In 1816, owner Major-General Francis Slater Rebow commissioned John Constable to commit the house to canvas for the fee of 100 guineas.

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When General Rebow died in 1845 the estate passed to his son-in-law, future English Liberal Party MP John Gurdon Rebow.

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The house once also served as the headquarters of the SAS.

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A partnership between the University of Essex, independent education foundation Edge and Kaplan Open Learning was created to manage the hotel upon its re-opening in 2012 under the name of the Edge Hotel School.

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John Gurdon Rebow died in 1870 and passed the estate to his son Hector Gurdon Rebow, during whose ownership Wivenhoe House survived England's worst-ever earthquake in 1884.



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