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Regency Revelations: the Lost Diaries of a Dandy

Monday 9th February 2026 at 14:30–15:30

Mark Hill, author, curator, publisher, presenter on the "Antiques Roadshow", director of an internet company forming and running a ground-breaking deal with eBay Live Auctions.

Discovered on eBay in 2010 the lost private journals of John Margesson Esq (1794-1866). - "He was the most spiteful, sly and vindictive and wicked man I have ever met". Written by his nephew, this brutally honest inscription begins one of the volumes.... Covering two years of Margesson's life, the journal begins with his return from exile in France to the Sussex country house (possibly Findon Place) where he grew up, before moving to London, and ending in Rome via France.

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The Henfield Hall
The Henfield Hall, Coopers Way, Henfield
BN5 9EQ