for housing development, prompted the Dorking and Leith Hill Preservation Society (chaired by the composer, Ralph Vaughan Williams) to purchase the terrace and garden, which were immediately transferred to Dorking Urban District Council (UDC) in July 1943. Covenants were place on the land to ensure that it was kept "as a natural and peaceful woodland pleasure resort for the free use and enjoyment of the public". Despite the custody of the UDC, the garden began to suffer neglect and in 1957 the mausoleum was sealed to prevent vandalism. In 1970, the J. Gordon Elsworth Memorial Fund awarded money to improve and extend paths and to provide seating. In the mid-2010s, the garden was restored and was reopened to the public as the ‘Deepdene Trail’. The Deepdene Painter Thomas Hope, who lived in the house in the 1820s, was a major collector of, among other things, Ancient Greek pottery. Sir John Beazley, who classified Attic black-figure pottery and red-figure pottery, named an otherwise anonymous painter the "Deepdene Painter" after an amphora that was in the collection of Deepdene House. This name-vase passed from the Hope Collection at Deepdene to the Honorable Marshall Brooks at Tarporley and thence to William Randolph Hearst, who donated the amphora to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, where it has the accession number 50.8.21. Notable residents Residents of the Deepdene included: Charles Howard, 10th Duke of Norfolk (1720–1786) Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk (1746–1815) Sir William Burrell, 2nd Baronet (1732–1796), antiquarian Thomas Hope (1769–1831), merchant banker Henry Thomas Hope (1808–1862), MP for East Looe and Gloucester Sir William Leslie de la Poer Beresford (1847–1900), Victoria Cross recipient Lily Spencer-Churchill, Dowager Duchess of Marlborough (1854–1909), wife of Sir William Beresford Almeric Paget, 1st Baron Queenborough (1861–1949), industrialist and politician. References Bibliography External links The Deepdene Trail British country houses destroyed in the 20th century Buildings and structures demolished in 1967 Country houses in Surrey Gardens in Surrey Grade II* listed parks and gardens in Surrey Dorking