The Times, 26 July 1924 Hockwold Hall with the adjoining 3,143 acres of land was still owned by the Newcome Estate in 1931. But after 1918, it appears to have been empty or let. This 1924 advertisement offers it "at a low rental" with 12 principal bed and dressing rooms.
Hockwold Hall in 1918 with bell tents on the front lawn, and vegetables and fruit growing either side of the “banjo” Prince and Princess Victor Duleep Singh spent WWI in Paris, and the Newcome family had no need of it. In 1918, the "Air Ministry" occupied the Hall, digging a new well there, whilst constructing an aerodrome at Feltwell. A
The Guardian (London), 16 Feb 1903 By 1900, bad investments and gambling debts overwhelmed Prince Victor. When Prince Victor was declared bankrupt on 4 September 1902. Hockwold Hall was given as his address. He fled to Paris, dying in Monte Carlo in 1918. Victor tried unsuccessfully to have the contents of Hockwold Hall declared Lady Anne’s property.
The Prince at the Devonshire House Ball in 1897 "The Hall, a Tudor pile
Parish.Council Minute 25 June 1898, Norfolk Records Office "The Parish Council of Hockwold-cum-Wilton attended at Hockwold Hall on Saturday 25th June 1898 and presented an address, signed by themselves, on behalf of the inhabitants on Hockwold-cum-Wilton, to H.H. Prince Victor Duleep Singh, welcoming him & the Princess on their homecoming, and congratulating him on his marriage. For which the
Thetford & Watton Times and People's Weekly Journal, 29 Dec 1894 Thetford & Watton Times and People's Weekly Journal, 16 Nov 1895 The Princes readily took on their responsibilities to Hockwold by: Distributing presents at Christmas 1894, Holding a dinner for those who had worked on the new extension to the Hall in 1895 and Hosting the ‘First Flower Show’ in the
HH Crown Prince Victor Duleep Singh (1866-1918) By 1861, Hockwold Hall was no longer the main residence of the Newcome family. Prince Victor, godson of Queen Victoria, and the son of the last Maharajah of the Sikh Empire and his brother, Prince Frederick (1868-1926), came to live at Hockwold in 1894, shortly after the death of their father. Maharajah Duleep
1851 Census of those living at Hockwold Hall In 1851, Catherine presided at Hockwold with Edward, his wife Amelia*, three young children, and 10 servants. In the 1871 census she was with her son (but not his wife and children) at the Rectory, Boothby Pagnall in Lincolnshire. And in 1875, her death was registered at Grantham, aged 88 years. Edward had
Watercolour by Caroline Vernon, née Fazakerley (fl.1829-1868) 2-Nov-1865 The present dining room, much as it is today, with Catherine Newcome 78, and some of her son Edward's collection of birds.
Catherine's son Edward Clough Newcome, inherited Feltwell Manor from Catherine's unmarried elder sister Plesance Clough in 1851. After the death of her husband in 1846, Catherine Newcome, was for the next 29 years (till 1875), Lady of Manor.