May 1918, when the estate was sold. Lord Clark discusses Sudbourne, somewhat dismissively, in his autobiography "Another Part Of The Wood" (1974): Wood's library of books came with the house, and his bookplates were pasted over with the Clark bookplates. He describes the park: As well as Sudbourne, Clark bought the 75,000 acre Ardnamurchan estate in Scotland, together with its two houses built by Charles Rudd, the main business associate of Cecil Rhodes, namely Glenborrodale Castle (used for deer stalking) and Sheilbridge (used for salmon fishing). The Clarks used Sheilbridge and let Glenborrodale to "a grim old Scottish financier named Fleming". He also built a house at Cap Martin in the South of France, where he kept a succession of large yachts, three of which were named "Katoomba", after the place he had visited in Australia. Lord Clark's son the MP Alan Clark, wrote in his diary in 1996: Boynton In 1918 the greater part of the Sudbourne estate was sold by Clark to Walter Boynton, described by Lord Clark as "a speculator", who was mainly interested in the value of the timber and felled much of the woodland. The Clark family however remained in residence for a further two years before the sale was completed. Although in 1920 Boynton re-sold most of the estate, in 1929 he still retained a substantial landholding in the Iken section. Watson The next buyer in 1920 was Joseph Watson, 1st Baron Manton (1873-1922) of Compton Verney in Warwickshire, a soap and munitions manufacturer from Leeds in Yorkshire, who had recently retired from business and was intent on devoting the rest of his life to sporting pursuits and research into industrialised agriculture. He acquired at about the same time five country estates totalling about 20,000 acres, of which Sudbourne accounted for about 9,000, including the palatial Robert Adam designed mansion of Compton Verney, which he intended to make his main residence, and the nearby Elizabethan mansion of Offchurch Bury. However, he died in a fox-hunting accident in Warwickshire, only four years later, in 1922, when 7,650 acres of the Sudbourne estate, together with Sudbourne Hall, were sold by his executors. "This sale signalled the complete breakup of the estate". Sudbourne Hall together with 196 acres of land and seventy-six acres of woodland was purchased by Malcolm Lyon. However, of Watson's four sons, the third, Alastair Joseph Watson (1901–1955), inherited the remainder of Sudbourne, about