His Lordship's Kindness

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caption =
nearest_city= Rosaryville, Maryland
lat_degrees = 38
lat_minutes = 46
lat_seconds = 44
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 76
long_minutes = 50
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long_direction = W
locmapin = Maryland
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built =1786
architect= Unknown
architecture= Georgian
designated = April 15, 1970cite web|url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=1031&ResourceType=Building
title=His Lordship's Kindness (Poplar Hill) |accessdate=2008-06-16|work=National Historic Landmark summary listing|publisher=National Park Service]
added = April 15, 1970cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2008-04-15|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]
governing_body = Private
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His Lordship's Kindness was built in the 1780s for Prince Georges County planter Robert Darnall near Clinton, Maryland. The five-part Georgian mansion, also known as Poplar Hill, retains a number of subsidiary buildings including a slave's hospital and a dovecote [cite web|url=http://www.marylandhistoricaltrust.net/nr/NRDetail.aspx?HDID=40&FROM=NRNHLList.aspx|title=Maryland Historical Trust|date=2008-06-08|work= His Lordship's Kindness|publisher=Maryland Historical Trust] .

History

Colonel Henry Darnall was granted convert|7000|acre|km2 of land in Prince George's County, Maryland in 1703 by Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, which Darnall named in recognition of Lord Baltimore's gesture. Darnall built a house for his family on a nearby property, known as The Woodyard, between 1683 and 1711. On Henry's death in 1711, the properties passed to his son, Henry Darnall II, who was forced to dispose of much of the his father's accumulated convert|35000|acre|km2 of property to clear his debts before leaving the country. His son, Henry Darnall III received the remaining convert|1300|acre|km2 from his father, including convert|300|acre|km2 of the original grant with a mansion, which became known as Polar Hill by the 1740s. Henry III, however, was found in 1761 to be embezzling money from one of his appointed positions, causing a bond to be forfeited and for fines to be paid by Henry's guarantors, his brother John Darnall, and Charles Carroll of Annapolis [Father of Charles Carroll of Carrollton.] .

Henry III's brother Robert found the means to buy back the original grant and replaced the original house with the present structure, completed in 1786. Darnall, who died childless in 1803, left the property to his nephew Robert Sewall. Sewall in turn left the property to his son Robert Darnall Sewall. The son in turn left the property to two nieces, Susan and Ellen Daingerfield of Alexandria, Virginia, in 1853. In 1865 Susan Daingerfield married future US Senator John Strode Barbour. Through the next hundred years, the property passed through a number of hands, including David K.E. Bruce and the Catholic Archdiocese of Washington [cite web|url=http://www.poplarhillonhlk.com/timeline.htm|title=Timeline|date=2008-06-12|work= Poplar Hill on His Lordship's Kindness|publisher= The John M. and Sara R. Walton Foundation, Inc.] .

Visiting

The John M. and Sara R. Walton Foundation own and operate the property as a historic house museum. Guided tours of the historic house are offered from March through December. The facilities are available for rental.

References

External links

* [http://www.poplarhillonhlk.com Poplar Hill on His Lordship's Kindness] - official site
* [http://www.marylandhistoricaltrust.net/nr/NRDetail.aspx?HDID=40&FROM=NRNHLList.aspx His Lordship's Kindness, Prince George's County] , including photo in 1974, at Maryland Historical Trust
* [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.md0568 Poplar Hill, 7606 Woodyard Road (His Lordship's Kindness Road) (Rosaryville vicinity), Clinton, Prince George's County, MD: 3 drawings, 48 photos, 19 data pages, 3 photo caption pages] , at Historic American Building Survey
* [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.md1412 Poplar Hill, Pigeon Cote, 7606 Woodyard Road, Clinton, Prince George's County, MD: 6 photos, 1 data page, 1 photo caption page] , at Historic American Building Survey
* [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.md1408 Poplar Hill, Privy, 7606 Woodyard Road, Clinton, Prince George's County, MD: 8 photos, 1 data page, 1 photo caption page] , at Historic American Building Survey
* [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.md1411 Poplar Hill, Slave Hospital, 7606 Woodyard Road, Clinton, Prince George's County, MD: 2 photos, 1 data page, 1 photo caption page] , at Historic American Building Survey
* [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.md1409 Poplar Hill, Smokehouse, 7606 Woodyard Road, Clinton, Prince George's County, MD: 2 photos, 1 data page, 1 photo caption page] , at Historic American Building Survey
* [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.md1410 Poplar Hill, Wash House, 7606 Woodyard Road, Clinton, Prince George's County, MD: 1 photo, 1 data page, 1 photo caption page] , at Historic American Building Survey