Photographs of Lady Place, Sutton Courtenay

D DX1925/3

1996-1998

Jeannette Valaire Ewin PhD, FRSM (1937-2010) was an American writer with an academic background in nutrition. She studied at the School of Medicine, Maryland, and held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Department of Nutrition, Harvard University, where she studied under Dr D Mark Hegsted. In 1996 Ewin was given a grant by David Horribin to write a biography of the nutritionist Dr Hugh Macdonald Sinclair. This was published in 2001 by Oxford University Press as 'Fine Wines and Fish Oils: The Life of Hugh Macdonald Sinclair.

File containing 128 photographs of Lady Place, Sutton Courtney. Lady Place was the home and workplace of Hugh Macdonald Sinclair. Photographs show the condition of the house and grounds in 1996 when Ewin began work on the biography of Sinclair which includes photographs of his library. Photographs from September 1998 show the aftermath of the fire which gutted the main house and the general condition of the estate.

1 file, 114 photographs

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