The Family

Glynde Place has been in the ownership of four different strands of the same family for over 800 years.

The Waleys lived at Glynde before the present house was built and little is know of them apart from the fact that one or two were knighted and one fought at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415. The Waleys bequeathed Glynde to one of their daughters, who married Nicholas Morley.

Glynde Place was built by William Morley in 1569. Colonel Harbert Morley was MP for Lewes at the beginning of the English Civil War in 1650 and campaigned tirelessly on behalf of parliament for the duration of the war. He refused to sign the death warrant for Charles I and when Oliver Cromwell died, he became Governor of the Tower of London. Morley’s old school friend from Lewes, John Evelyn, tried to persuade him to come over to the side of Charles II when it became clear that the monarchy was to be restored. But he refused, Morley lost his position, and also had to pay a heavy fine for his activities during the war.

Colonel Morley married the daughter of Sir John Trevor and on the death of their only son, Glynde passed to the Trevor family in 1679.

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