The Lark Ascending

It's Pete's birthday today so i joined Peter and Barbara for a celebratory picnic at Leith Hill House. I had no idea that it has such a famous history (see below): Josiah Wedgwood, Charles Darwin, Ralph Vaughan Williams. Love this garden seat with The Lark Ascending carved into the back. The rhododendron Wood is fabulous too. 
Originally a gabled house dating from about 1600, Leith Hill Place was completely refaced in a Palladian style about 1760 by Richard Hull.[10] It was bought in 1847 by Josiah Wedgwood III[11] and remained in the family until his grandson, the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, who had been brought up there and eventually inherited it from his brother, immediately gave it to the National Trust on his brother's death in 1944. Subsequently, it was leased from the Trust by his cousins Sir Ralph Wedgwood and then Sir John Wedgwood, later becoming a boarding house for a nearby sixth form college, Hurtwood House.
The house was opened to the public by the National Trust in 2013 and now serves as a memorial to Ralph Vaughan Williams.[12] Josiah Wedgwood's widow, born Caroline Darwin, created a rhododendron wood there, now open to the public.[13]