the Cunard Line. Two years after Sir William's death, in 1926, it was bought by Eugen Spier, a wealthy German financier. In 1930, Claremont stood empty and was marked for demolition when it was bought, together with the Belvedere, the stables, and of parkland, by the Governors of a south London school, later renamed Claremont School and, since 1978, has been known as Claremont Fan Court School. The National Trust The National Trust acquired of the Claremont estate in 1949. In 1975, with a grant from the Slater Foundation, it set about restoring the eighteenth-century landscape garden. Now, the Claremont Landscape Garden displays the successive contributions of the great landscape gardeners who worked on it: Sir John Vanbrugh, Charles Bridgeman, William Kent, and Capability Brown. In 1996, the school celebrated the National Trust's centenary by opening a feature of the grounds which had not previously been accessible to the garden's visitors: the 281-year-old Belvedere Tower. See also A307, Portsmouth Road Claremont Fan Court School Claremont Landscape Garden St. George's Church, Esher References Bibliography Turner, Roger, Capability Brown and the Eighteenth Century English Landscape, 2nd ed. Phillimore, Chichester, 1999, pp. 115–118. 1774 establishments in England Houses completed in 1774 Country houses in Surrey Royal residences in England Grade I listed parks and gardens in Surrey Gardens by Capability Brown Grade I listed buildings in Surrey Grade I listed houses Borough of Elmbridge Louis Philippe I Princess Charlotte of Wales (1796–1817)