Jane Austen's Home given by Thomas Edward Carpenter, J.P., of Mill Hill in memory of his son Lieut. Philip John Carpenter. East Surrey Regt. killed in action, Lake Trasimene, 1944. Opened 1949 by The Duke of Wellington, K.G. president of The Jane Austen Society, founded 1940 by Dorothy Darnell, of Alton

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