back in 1813 by John Thomas Mayne, FRS, FSA, (1792–1843), of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple. In response to the severe distress of the labouring population and the ensuing riots, he became an "indefatigable reformer", circulating a petition for parliamentary reform and reduced expenditure which was signed by over 14,000 inhabitants of the county, and presented to Parliament on 10 February 1831. With friends, J. T. Mayne enlarged Teffont Evias church and gave it its present tower and steeple. He also extended and remodelled the manor house, and increased the woodland in the parish. He attempted to improve his family tree: he included in it connections (which he could not document) to two West Country clergymen, the Catholic (now Saint) Cuthbert Mayne and the Anglican Jasper Mayne, and he spent many days researching and copying the documents of the aristocratic, extinct Mayne family of Kent, then claiming them (and some of their portraits, one still in Teffont) as his own ancestors. From 1852 until her death in 1896, J. T. Mayne's eldest daughter Emily, and her husband William Fane de Salis, were in charge. They built the present service court and water tower of the manor house. Their marriage was childless, so on Emily's death in 1896 the house and estate passed to her next unmarried sister Margaret (d.1905), then to the youngest sister Ellen-Flora (1829–1907), Mrs. Maurice Keatinge, and thence to Ellen's eldest son Richard Keatinge. He sold it to his younger brothers Maurice Walter and Gerald Francis (1872–1965), who shared the advowson of the benefice of Teffont Evias with the patrons of the church of Dinton. Maurice died childless and in 1947 Gerald passed the estate to his son Edgar Keatinge (1905–1998), later Sir Edgar, who had been a Conservative MP for a short time. In 1958 the advowson was transferred to the Bishop of Salisbury. Notable people James Ley, 1st Earl of Marlborough, later Lord High Treasurer of England, was born at Teffont Evias ca. 1552. Henry Ley, 2nd Earl of Marlborough, lived at the manor house from 1635. William Fane de Salis (1812–1896) married the heiress of the Mayne family and made Teffont Evias his country seat. Sir Edgar Keatinge (died 1998), a former politician, owned and farmed the remainder of the estate from 1947. Paffard Keatinge-Clay, architect and sculptor, was born in Teffont Evias in 1926. Hermione Baddeley (1906–1986), actress, and her socialite