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admin — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 07:58:36 +0000

Dear Professor Payne: Thanks for your email. Lister actually spent most of his adolescence in Buckinghamshire, in the Melton Mowbray area, attending the grammar there. However, his parents Sir Martin and Susanna Temple Lister moved to Burwell when he was a young adult. (These were estates held in the family by Lister’s great uncle, and included nearby Muckton). They lived in Burwell Park, which was rebuilt in the Georgian style; unfortunately the house was demolished in the 1950s after having been abandoned in 1949. It was being used to store sheep and potatoes, and the East Lindsay District Council decided to tear it down…shame, because it had perfect neoclassical proportions. There is really nothing much left of the house…I think part of a stable wall. My book on Lister (Web of Nature, Brill, 2011) covers the history of the house in the last chapter with some photos and you can preview it on:
http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Web_of_Nature.html?id=rcgi3MseXl0C&redir_esc=y John Harris’s No voice from the Hall: early memories of a country house snooper also has an account of what happened to Burwell Park.

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Lynda payne — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 21:26:57 +0000

I am fascinated by this terrific account of Martin Lister. I grew up one village over from Burwell and was wondering if you have located the home he came from? I am an historian of medicine now at UMKC who works on early modern surgery in Britain.
Thank you.

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