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Graceful retreat where Shelley lived.

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From: Sunday Business (London, England)
Date: 20000827
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N THE early part of the 14th century, one John Atte Fenn lived at what is now Alexander House Hotel. Later occupants included the rather better known Percy Bysshe Shelley and William Campbell, sometime governor of the Bank of England. And in 1953, the Queen Mother opened it as a home for retired clergy. Here endeth the history lesson.

Today it has all the virtues of a rather splendid English mansion, the sort of place where upper-class murders were committed in 1930s crime fiction, set in more than 135 acres of West Sussex and out of the way of flightpaths into Gatwick, ...

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