Bredfield House

In the seventeenth century Bredfield belonged to the Marryot family, who built the house. It passed to the Jenney family in 1683 by the marriage of Dorothy, daughter and co-heiress of Robert Marryott, to Edmund, the second son of Sir Robert Jenney. A later Edmund Jenney was High Sheriff of Suffolk for 1740. The house is best known as the birthplace Edward FitzGerald (1809 1883), who translated the Rubàiyàt of Omar Khayyàm. Edward's father, John Fitzgerald, had rented it in 1801 from the Jenneys on his marriage to Edward's mother. Edward described it in his poem of 1839, Bredfield Hall which starts thus: Fitzgerald described the house as overlooking Hollesley Bay at the time when Horatio…