Greek) in Sir William Hamilton's collection, illustrations of which had recently been published. Adam also designed some of the furniture, including the opulent domed state bed, still in the house. After Child Robert Child's only daughter, Sarah Anne Child, married John Fane, 10th Earl of Westmorland in 1782. When Child died two months later, his will placed his vast holdings, including Osterley, in trust for any second-to-be born grandchild. This proved to be Lady Sarah Sophia Fane, who was born in 1785. Lady Sarah Fane married George Villiers in 1804, and having children, the estate passed into the Villiers family. In 1819, George changed his surname to Child-Villiers. Child's will kept his property out of the hands of John Fane, his son-in-law. Under the doctrine of coverture then in force, Child had given his daughter more than a life interest in any property, Fane would have had control of it. Fane had eloped with Sarah Child to Gretna Green, as the bride's father had not consented to the marriage. Child had wished his daughter to marry someone willing to take his own surname and ensure its continuation. Later history George Child Villiers, 9th Earl of Jersey, opened Osterley to the public in 1939 after having received many requests to see its historic interior. He justified his decision by saying that it was "sufficient answer that he did not live in it and that many others wished to see it". Some 12,000 people visited the house in its first month of opening. Villiers staged a series of exhibitions of artworks by living artists in the top-floor rooms to contrast with the 18th-century interiors on the ground floor. Though it never came to fruition, he also planned to create an arboretum in the grounds. Home Guard Training Establishment The grounds of Osterley Park were used for the training of the first members of the Local Defence Volunteers (forerunners of the Home Guard) when the 9th Earl, a friend of publisher Sir Edward Hulton, allowed writer and military journalist Captain Tom Wintringham to establish the first Home Guard training school (which Hulton sponsored) at the park in May/June 1940, teaching the theory and practice of modern mechanical warfare, guerilla warfare techniques, and street fighting techniques, making use of some estate workers' houses which had been scheduled for demolition. Painter Roland Penrose taught camouflaging here, an extension of work he had developed with the