Editing Addington Palace (section)

==History==
The original manor house called '''Addington Place''' was built about the 16th century.

An ancient recipe for Malepigernout (or [[dillegrout]]), a spiced chicken porridge, was historically made by the current Lord of the Manor of Addington to be served upon the [[Coronation of the British monarch|coronation]] of the monarch of England in a [[Serjeanty|kitchen serjeanty]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Round |first=J. Horace |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zDssBgAAQBAJ&q=tezelin&pg=PA248 |title=The King's Serjeants & Officers of State: Kings & Sergeants |publisher=Routledge |year=1911 |isbn=978-1-136-22265-8 |pages=243–248 |language=en}}</ref> The Leigh family gained this [[Baron Bardolf#Honour at Coronation of the Monarch|serjeanty]] upon becoming Lords of the Manor of Addington sometime before 1504. The Addington estate was owned by the Leigh family until the early 18th century.

The last owner Sir John Leigh died without heirs in 1737 and his estates went to distant relatives, who eventually sold to [[Barlow Trecothick]].<ref name=history>{{cite book|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=43047 |title=A History of the County of Surrey |volume=4 |publisher=Victoria County History |date=1912 |location=London |chapter=Parishes: Addington |editor-first=H. E. |editor-last=Malden |pages=164–168}}</ref> Trecothick had been brought up in [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]], and became a merchant there. He then moved to London, still trading as a merchant, and later sat as [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] (MP) for the [[City of London (UK Parliament constituency)|City of London]] in 1768–74, and served as [[Lord Mayor of London|Lord Mayor]] in 1770. He bought the estate for £38,500 ({{Inflation|GBP|38500|1770|r=-4|fmt=eq|cursign=£}}).

He built a new house, designed by [[Robert Mylne (architect)|Robert Mylne]] in the [[Palladian style]]; a country mansion with single-storey wings. He died before it was completed in 1774 <ref name=history /> and it was inherited by his heir, James Ivers of Boston MA, who had to take the surname Trecothick in order to inherit the estate. James continued the work on the house, having the substantial grounds and gardens landscaped by [[Capability Brown|Lancelot "Capability" Brown]]. Owing to financial difficulties, James Trecothick had to sell the estate in 1802. The estate was sold in lots in 1803.<ref name=history /> The next owners (William Coles and Westgarth Snaith) <ref name=history /> also got into financial trouble and sold it by [[Acts of Parliament|act of Parliament]] in 1807. This enabled the mansion to be purchased for the [[Archbishop of Canterbury|Archbishops of Canterbury]], since nearby [[Croydon Palace]] had become dilapidated and inconvenient. The name became '''Addington Farm''' whilst owned by the archbishops, much later it became known as Addington Palace. The archbishops made further changes and enlarged the building; work on the building was overseen by [[Richard Norman Shaw]].

It became the official summer residence of six archbishops:
*[[Charles Manners-Sutton]] (Archbishop 1805–1828)
*[[William Howley]] (Archbishop 1828–1848)
*[[John Bird Sumner]] (Archbishop 1848–1862)
*[[Charles Thomas Longley]] (Archbishop 1862–1868)
*[[Archibald Campbell Tait]] (Archbishop 1868–1882)
*[[Edward White Benson]] (Archbishop 1883–1896)

All except Benson are buried in [[St Mary's Church, Addington|St Mary's Church]] or churchyard, Addington: Benson is buried in [[Canterbury Cathedral]].

The house was sold in 1897 to [[Frederick Alexander English]], a diamond merchant from [[South Africa]]. After his death, the mansion was taken over during the [[First World War]] by the [[International Committee of the Red Cross|Red Cross]] and became a fever hospital. Eventually, in 1930, it came into the hands of the [[County Borough of Croydon]].