Editing Harlaxton Manor (section)

===20th century===
[[Violet Van der Elst]], a businesswoman and inventor, made her money from developing the first brushless [[shaving cream]] and made her name by campaigning against [[capital punishment]].{{sfn|Jenkins|2003|pp=438-440}}  She restored the house, having renamed it Grantham Castle, and had it wired for electricity, before losing almost all of her fortune in "obsessive litigation".{{sfn|Jenkins|2003|pp=438-440}} During the Second World War, Harlaxton was requisitioned by the [[Royal Air Force]] as the officers' mess for [[RAF Harlaxton]] and later to house a company of the [[1st Airborne Division (United Kingdom)|1st Airborne Division]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/history/story-remarkable-lincolnshire-manor-man-5460139|first=Gurjeet|last=Nanrah|title=The story of this remarkable Lincolnshire Manor and the man who envisaged its impressive design|publisher=Lincolnshire Live|date=28 May 2021}}</ref> In 1948, Harlaxton was purchased by the [[Jesuits|Society of Jesus]], who used it as a [[novitiate]].{{sfn|Jenkins|2003|pp=438-440}} [[Stanford University]] leased Harlaxton Manor from the Jesuits in 1965, and with only 80 students in its first year, it was the first American university in Great Britain. Students attended classes from Monday to Thursday, often travelling on the weekends, similar to the Harlaxton schedule today. Stanford used the manor as part of its British study abroad programme. But the relative isolation of the house made it unpopular and the programme relocated to [[Cliveden]] in Berkshire in 1969.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/data/gb3454-sta|title=Harlaxton Manor|publisher=Stanford University Archives |website=archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk|access-date=18 January 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://archives.stanforddaily.com/1969/04/18?page=5|title=British campus moves - Students occupy new home|publisher=Stanford Daily Archives|date=18 April 1969}}</ref>