Lotherton Hall

The Edwardians at Lotherton: exhibition at Lotherton Hall May – December 2007

This exhibition explores the lives and works of Colonel FRTT Gascoigne and his wife Laura Gwendolen Galton who created the Edwardian house and garden at Lotherton which survives, largely untouched, to the present day. He was a noted soldier who took part in the expedition to rescue General Gordon in Khartoum in 1885, later fought in the Boer War and was recommended for the Victoria Cross. She was no less remarkable: a cousin of Florence Nightingale, the famous nurse, she followed the family tradition and ran Lotherton as a military hospital during the First World War. Novelist, spiritualist and garden designer, she can be heard singing at Lotherton half a century after her death by those with powers to detect her!

Paintings, photographs, sculpture, silver and furniture tell the family story.

Caption for photograph:
Mrs Gascoigne with her son Alvary, 1893. Private collection.