Boreham House

Boreham House stayed in the Hoare family until 1785, when William Walford bought it and rented it until 1792 to Sir Elija Impey, a British judge. Around 1792, Sir John Tyrell, 1st Baronet, bought the House. He was a local Justice of the Peace. In 1832, his son Sir John Tyrell, 2nd Baronet inherited Boreham House. He sat in Parliament as a Conservative member for Essex. He died in 1877, leaving Boreham House in tail to his grandson, Lieutenant Colonel Tufnell Tyrell, sheriff of Essex. The House stayed in the Family until 1931, when Henry Ford bought it. Ford saw Boreham House for the first time in 1930 when he was returning from Oberammergau, where he saw the Passion Play. He went into the…