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VALLANCE, James
1766-1847
VALLANCE, Edmund
1792-1849
VALLANCE, Charles Sr
1801-1881
VALLANCE, Charles Jr
1837-1881
James Vallance. Attorney.
Born at Patcham, he served his clerkship with Henry Brooker from 1785. He married Anne Catt (1769-1849).
Edmund Vallance. Brewer.
Eldest son of James, he was baptised at the Countess of Huntingdon's Chapel, North Street. Continued in business as James Vallance & Sons after dissolution of the partnership with John Vallance in 1823; in partnership with William Catt. He was buried at Southwick.
Charles Vallance Sr. Brewer.
He was in partnership with William snr/William jr/Charles and Henry Catt. Son of James Vallance, born at Bath. He died at Belgrave House, leaving £104,890 5s 5d (now equivalent to £10.5m). St Peter's Church, Preston, has a memorial window to Charles and his wife Hannah (1800-1882).
Charles Vallance Jr. Brewer.
Charles's eldest son, born in Bath, was also in the family business. The town clerk, James Albert Freeman, was an executor of the wills of both father and son.
• 8 West Street [brewery, family then Edmund's residence until his deeath]
• Belgrave House, (235) Preston Road [Charles's residence 1881, deathplace]
• 4 Clarence Square
• 33 Buckingham Place [Charles jr's residence 1881, deathplace]
• 64 Grand Parade [Edmund's medical practice]
• 18 St Aubyns [Edmund's residence 1891]
VALLANCE, John
1759-1833
VALLANCE, John Brooker
1804-1851
VALLANCE, John Olliver
1846-1893
The family claimed descent from the Earls of Pembroke, that name (and that of Aymer de Valance, 2nd Earl of Pembroke) being given to streets in the area of Hove they developed. He was buried at St Andrew's churchyard.John Vallance. Farmer and landowner.
He built the Manor House (aka Hove House) off Hove Street, close to the current Vallance Gardens. He also owned property in Worthing.
John Brooker Vallance. Landowner and farmer [right].
Son of John Vallance, he was also a landowner and farmer. He was baptised at Union Street Chapel and built Brooker Hall (now Hove Museum).
John Olliver Vallance. Landowner.
Son of John Brooker Vallance, he was born in Littlehampton. His middle name came from his maternal grandfather. He was a major in the Cinque Port Division of the Royal Artillery. . He built Brooker Hall (now Hove Museum). He left £22,903 7s 8d.
• Vallance Gardens, Vallance Road
• Brooker Hall, New Church Road
• Brooker Place
• Brooker Street
PERSONAL
† Hove Manor House, Hove Street
• Brooker Hall, New Church Road
1889-1920
A Greek-born former Paris model who married a Greek corn merchant with offices in London. She developed a stud farm at Thetford in Norfolk, raced at Brighton among other courses and had some success. She was killed in a motoring accident in 1920 when returning home from Newmarket.
• Furze Court, Dyke Road Avenue [residence 1918]
1835-1912
Nonconformist preacher.A large memorial tablet on the Union Chapel commemorates his work there.
• Evangelical Mission (Union Chapel), Union Street
1828-1860
The daughter of the Earl and Countess of Jersey, on 5 November 1845 she disappeared from East Lodge, where her family was lodging, causing a national outcry that was reported around the world. In fact, she had escaped via the lodge gate and taken a fly to Brighton station. She travelled to London and by express train to York, then by mail train to Newcastle, where her travelling companion revealed himself as Captain Ibbetson of the 11th Hussars. They attached a private coach to the train and reached Carlisleat the end of a 19-hour journey, made possible by the railways. From there they rode to Gretna Green and were married1. Gretna Hall has an Ibbetson-Villiers room. In 1782 her maternal grandmother had eloped to Gretna to marry the 10th Earl of Westmoreland.
• East Lodge, Upper Rock Gardens [lodging 1845]
1 Illustrated London News, 8 Nov 1845, 15 Nov 1845
1782-1836
Miller.He acquired a mill at Patcham in 1813 and moved in with his family. In 1818 he took over the post mill at Mill Place on Clifton Hill. The site became known as Vine Place. He was a member of the Salem Chapel in Bond Street and was buried in the family vault at the Hanover Burial Ground. His portrait by his son-in-law, Henry Bodle, was donated to Brighton Museum in 2010.
Image: Royal Pavilion & Museums Trust
• Vine Place; Clifton Hill
1802-1887
Soldier.The natural son of 1st Baon Vivian, he entered the East India Company's army in 1819 and next day was appointed a lieutentant in the 10th native infantry and was sent to Madras (Chennai), being posted in 1824 to the 18th Madras native infantry in Burma, where he was involved in a number of campaigns. Promoted to major, he took command of the 10th Madras in 1837 and in 1849 became adjutant-general of the Madras Army. Further promotions ensued and he returned to England in 1854 and became a major-general and the following year a director of the East India Company. He commanded the Turkish contingenet in the Crimean war. He retired in 1877 and died at his residence in Hove.
• 32 Upper Brunswick Place [residence 1868-1870]
ª 10 Eaton Gardens [residence 1884-1887, deathplace]
1860-1955
Co-founder in 1882 of the Leeson & Vokins department store, which traded under that name until 1937 and then became W H Vokins until 1983, then simply Vokins until final closure in 1997. He left £124,227 17s 3d.
† Beechwood, London Road, Withdean [residence 1911-1955]
• 10 Eaton Gardens [deathplace]
1851-1937
VOLK, George Herbert (Bertie)
1881-1967
Magnus Volk. Electrical engineer. [right]Magnus Volk was the Brighton-born son of a German clockmaker. His best known legacy is Volks Railway on Madeira Drive. Among his many other pioneering works were electric lighting (introduced in the Royal Pavilion in November 1882, permandent throughout the building in 1883), telephony, the Daddy-Long-Legs railway and electric cars. From c1904 he lived at Hassocks Farm.
George Herbert Volk. Automobile engineer and aeronautical pioneer.
Second son of Magnus Volk, he emigrated to Natal, South Africa in 1902, joining the Natal Mounted Rifles and serving in Zululand. Immediately after returning to Brighton in 1909 he visited Louis Bleriot's flight training school at Pau in France. He set up a motor works in 1910, where he also made parts for seaplanes that were assembled in the Volk's Railway carriage sheds on the beach opposite Paston Place, where another seaplane pioneer, John Cyril Porte, also worked for a time. The seaplane station was requisitioned by the government on the outbreak of war in 1914 but Volk had returned to South Africa the previous year.
• 51 Preston Street [residence 1871]
• 40 Preston Road [residence 1881]
• 36 Eaton Place [residence 1897]
• 11 Union Street
• 17 Gloucester Place [residence c1884-1887]
• 17 Clermont Terrace [residence 1901-1903]
• 15 Marine Square [residence 1913]
• 38 (now 128) Dyke Road [residence 1914-1935]
PERSONAL (George Herbert)
• 126 Clarendon Road [residence 1909]
• 86 Gloucester Road [Volk's Motor Works workshop 1910-1912]
• 10 Park Crescent Place [residence 1910]
• [residence 1911]
• Paston Place [Volk's Seaplane Station]