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A hotelier is a person who oversees or manages a hotel. He or she may be the owner of the establishment, the chairperson of the board that operates the hotel, the chief executive of a hotel location or chain, or the general manager of the hotel. ===A Brief History===From Hotels: a brief history By Jacques Levy-Bonvin From antiquity to the Middle Ages The history of hotels is intimately connecte...
The Rose in Vale Country House Hotel, Cornwall, England The Rose in Vale Country House Hotel , started as a Cornish Long house that consisted of two cottages. Mr Thomas Nankivell bought the property and in 1761 added the Iconic Georgian frontage. When Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Nankivell lived there, John Opie, the renowned local painter, visited them, his sister being in service there.Ada Earland, in...
Coworth House, Berkshire, England= Coworth House , located in Sunningdale, near Ascot is a late 18th Century house recently gutted and rebuilt for use as a hotel. ===History===Cowarth House was a new house at the time of the American Declaration of Independence and contemporary with Captain Cook's third and last world voyage, being first built in 1776. It is named for and situated in the Hamlet...
Oakley Court, Berkshire, England=Remarkably little is known about the property despite the fact that it was built over 120 years ago. Oakley Court is situated along a stretch of the Thames known as Water Oakley. It was first shown on maps around 1800 and the name appears to originate from Cornish Breton in which it appears as "Warhta Eog Lee" — The Upper Salmon Place.The Court was originally bu...
Heythrop Park, Oxfordshire, England= Heythrop Park is an early 18th-century country house 1 mile (1.6 km) southeast of Heythrop in Oxfordshire. It was designed by the architect Thomas Archer in the Baroque style for Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury . A fire in 1831 destroyed the original interior. From 1922 until 1999 Heythrop housed first a Jesuit tertiary education college, and later a ...