The Edgbaston Garrison at Edgbaston Hall

From August 19, 1645 to April 30, 1646, Edgbaston Hall was a stronghold of Colonel John Fox, the so-called "Jovial Tinker". Records from the Warwickshire County Committee - the Parliamentary Committee of accounts for the County - show musters for the Edgbaston Garrison. The garrison troops had a fearsome reputation, making forays into surrounding villages for provisions and plunder and raiding rival royalist strongholds.

The troops were highly mobile and were shifted around to augment the parliamentary garrisons at Tamworth, Coventry and Warwick. The muster from 1645 lists about 40 soldiers and officers, including Thomas Rawlins, who was listed as "a prisoner".

In 1717, Sir Richard Gough purchased the hall from Thomas Belasyse, 3rd Viscount Fauconberg and began to have it rebuilt. In 1776, Sir Henry Gough commissioned Capability Brown to lay out the park. It was later home to William Withering. Since 1936, the house has been the clubhouse for Edgbaston Golf Club.

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