horses.' Advertisements for the letting of West Green, in July 1766 suggest that Heckfield Place was completed by this date. In 1768 Jane married for a second time. Her husband was Revd. Mountague Rush (1731–1785), younger son of Sir John Rush of Streatley, a former High Sheriff of Berkshire. Jane had another nine (eight surviving) children. Rush was, from 1774, the rector of the neighbouring parish of Elvetham. Revd Rush died in February 1785, an event which triggered the sale of Heckfield Place. Contemporary sale notices confirm that the Heckfield Place estate, by this date, stretched to about 120 acres. The Shaw Lefevres John Lefevre (1721/2-1790) of a successful Huguenot family of textile dyers, gin distillers and bankers established around Spitalfields and Stratford, East London, bought Heckfield Place in February 1786. He and his wife Helena (née Selman, d 1816) had an only daughter, also Helena, who in 1789 was married to Charles Shaw (1759–1823). John Lefevre died early the following year. Shaw, a graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, was of Yorkshire origin, his father, George Shaw, having been the rector of Kirk Smeaton. As a condition of marriage (and inheritance) Charles added the name 'Lefevre' to his own. Charles Shaw Lefevre became MP for Newtown (Isle of Wight, 1796–1802) and for Reading (1802–1820), was the Recorder for Basingstoke, and in the 1790s, raised a company of militia in North Hampshire. After the death of John Lefevre's widow in 1816, the Shaw Lefevres enlarged the Rush house by the addition of identical wings to the north and south. Servants' quarters, walled gardens, an ice house, stables and coach houses were also built, and the upper lake created. The Grove (possibly used as their home while the works were on-going) appears to have been demolished by 1818. By 1790, Shaw Lefevre had also acquired the present-day Home Farm acreage. Through land exchanges with neighbours (particularly Pitt and afterwards, the Dukes of Wellington), by purchase and through enclosure, Shaw Lefevre and his son greatly enlarged the estate, particularly to the south, until it extended to 2,388 acres. The Shaw Lefevres had four (three surviving) sons: Charles (later Viscount Eversley 1794–1888), John (1797–1879, Clerk of the Parliaments) and Henry (1802–1880, banker). Charles married in 1817 Emma Laura Whitbread (1798–1857) youngest daughter of the leading Whig politician Samuel Whitbread II. They had six children, three daughters who survived to adulthood, and three sons, all