some of the finest houses on both sides of the Atlantic. In his childhood, Ronald would have known both the Tree family house at 94 Cass Street, (now Wabash but since demolished) built to a design by the eminent Henry Hobson Richardson, one of the greatest of American architects in the latter half of the 19th C. and the Tree Studio Building and Annexes, a surviving example of the work of Parfitt Brothers architects and now on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. In England, Ronald was raised in his parent's Grade II Listed Ashorne Hill House commissioned from the architect Edward Goldie in the style of a grand country house, with a touch of the arts & crafts, but also with a late-Victorian eclectic flourish. Arthur and Ronald also lived for a time at a (now Grade II*) London house in Harrington Gardens designed by the significant Victorian architects of Sir Ernest George and Peto. Following his father and grandfather, Ronald was the owner at various times of two of England's finest historic country houses, Ditchley Park and Kelmarsh Hall. It was at Ditchley where Winston Churchill would sometimes repair during the darkest days of war. With a foot in England and one across the Atlantic, it is not surprising that he enjoyed the warmer climes and relaxed colonial ambience of Barbados - not least escaping post-War austerity - where he founded and built the Sandy Lane resort and hotel towards the end of his life. On the island, he worked closely with Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe on his own island home Heron Bay, built just after the closure of War and one of the finest neo-Palladian mansions of the New World. In New York, he also lived for a time at the Ogden Codman House, a grand town house on the Upper East Side. References External links 1897 births 1976 deaths People educated at Winchester College American emigrants to the United Kingdom American people of British descent British people of American descent British bisexual writers Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1931–1935 UK MPs 1935–1945 English LGBT politicians Bisexual politicians Bisexual men LGBT members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom Marshall Field family Ministers in the Churchill caretaker government, 1945 20th-century LGBT people