Tower and Town, July 2020 (view the full edition)The Lockeridge ConnectionWhile the ancestral connection of John Churchill via his Ley relations to Lockeridge and Marlborough is somewhat murky to me - or at least beyond my research ability - what is clear is that he (or Sarah his wife and widow) took an interest in the rebuilding of Lockeridge House by a local builder. This stunning small gentry house was built in the late 1720s about the time of John Churchill's death, and its first occupant was either the 2nd Duchess or the 3rd Duke of Marlborough (there appears not to have been a 2nd Duke).  Alexander Kirk-Wilson |