Lot 182
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WANOSTROCHT, Nicholas -- A manuscript indenture on vellum, dated 11th February 1834, for the sale of the "dwellinghouse and schoolrooms ... on ... the road ... from Camberwell to Peckham ... known by the name of the Royal Naval School" to John Vere, SIGNED BY WANOSTROCHT and Vere. Appended is a second agreement, dated 13th March 1835, for Wanostrocht to rent the property from Vere, 650 x 470mm (some light soiling, creased on folds).

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WANOSTROCHT, Nicholas -- A manuscript indenture on vellum, dated 11th February 1834, for the sale of the "dwellinghouse and schoolrooms ... on ... the road ... from Camberwell to Peckham ... known by the name of the Royal Naval School" to John Vere, SIGNED BY WANOSTROCHT and Vere. Appended is a second agreement, dated 13th March 1835, for Wanostrocht to rent the property from Vere, 650 x 470mm (some light soiling, creased on folds).

Lot Essay

Nicholas Wanostrocht's great-uncle founded the Alfred House Academy near Camberwell Green, and after his death it passed first to Nicholas' father, and then to Nicholas. "About 1830 he moved the school from Camberwell to Blackheath, where he was long a familiar figure from the zeal with which he instructed his pupils in the rudiments of the national game" (DSB).

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