 He further extended the building, though its appearance received a cool reception from Jerome K. Jerome who joked in "Three Men in a Boat" that it was ‘the rather uninteresting-looking river residence of my newsagent.’ On Smith’s death, his family was ennobled with the title of Viscount Hambleden.Greenlands remained their home until immediately after the Second World War.In 1946, the 3rd Viscount rented the building to the Administrative Staff College, an initiative designed to provide management education to British men and women in all sectors of the economy and government.