He appears to have purchased the Estate in the early 1800s and either built High Elms or made very substantial alterations to a small existing building.

Both novels were written during the period that the couple lived at High Elms.

When he completed his Parliamentary career he put High Elms on the market.

The next owner of High Elms was Arthur Currie.

The couple seem to have lived at High Elms for about ten years.

He died at High Elms in 1889 at the age of 78.

During the 1890s Claude Watney bought High Elms as his country house.

Sometime during the 1890s the name of the house was changed from High Elms to Garston Manor.

He largely rebuilt the family home of High Elms, near Downe village in Kent.

He was born, and died, at the same family home, High Elms, Farnborough, Kent.