Charles Hoskins Master (1846–1935) was one of the family owners of Barrow Green Court. Chairman of the Friary Brewery, Guildford and High Sheriff of Surrey.Surrey Advertiser and County Times 2 March 1935 P.9 accessed 4 February 2024
Family Born at Bilting House, Godmerstham, Kent 24 October 1846. Charles was the eldest son of Charles Hoskins Master 1816-1885 and Emily Borrer 1821–1892. One of thirteen children. He married Amy Morgan Bissett third daughter of General J.J Bissett CB 9 October 1877.Surrey Advertiser, County Times 13 October 1877 p.8 accessed 5 February 2024. Children: They produced five children: Charles Edward Hoskins Master 1878 - 1960. Served as Captain 1/5th Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey). Arthur Bisset Streynsham Hoskins Master 1880 - 1939. Served as Lt Commander RN. Herbert Francis Hoskins Master 1882 - 1967. Served as Major, Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey). Amy Charlotte Emily Hoskins Master 1885 - 1940. Legh Chichele Hoskins Master 1890 - 1991. Served as Lieutenant Royal Field Artillery .Surrey ad 19 January 1878 p.8 accessed 4 February 2024The Surrey Mirror and County Post,17 Jun 1960, Page 7 accessed 5 February 2024Tunbridge Wells Courier 17 February 1939, Page 2 accessed 5 February 2024.Evening Standard 18 November 1967, Page 9 accessed 5 February 2024The Surrey Advertiser, County Times 12 Nov 1919, P2 accessed 6 February 2024Leigh Chichele H Master in the England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 p.2565 accessed 6 February 2024
Familial Links
Ancestral familial names include : Sir William Hoskins 1629-1712. Catherine Hoskins married to William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire. Susannah Chicheley daughter of Sarah Chicheley and Rev James Plowden of Ewhurst Hants was descended 12 generations from William Chicheley the brother to Henry the Archbishop of Canterbury 1364 -1443. Susannah married Charles Hoskins 1728-1768 and was therefore the sister in law to Katherine Hoskins the eventual heir to the Barrow Green Estate who married Legh Master and created the Hoskins Master family. Further descendants of four generations led to Charles Hoskins Master, it is this Chichele familial link that provided the naming of his fourth child as Legh Chichele Hoskins Master in 1890. Road and place names in Oxted such as Barrow Green Road, Hoskins Road, Master Close, Chichele Road and Master Park provide a lasting legacy to their family involvement. Records of the Chicheley Plowdens, A.D. 1590-1913 BY Walter F. C. Chicheley Plowden 1914. accessed 26 March 2024Berry, William, 1774-1851. County Genealogies: Pedigrees of Surrey Families. London: Gilbert, 1837Ordnance Survey Map sheets 1:2500 Surrey XXVIII. 1896 and 1912 accessed 26 March 2024
Education Charles was educated at Eton and at Clare College, Cambridge 1867 - 1870. Being accepted at Inner Temple November 1869 as a barrister but never practiced.Cambridge University Alumni 1261-1900 Accessed 5 February 2024
Barrow Green Court Barrow Green Court was built in the early 17th Century on the landed estate of the Hoskins family who had been in ownership since 1587. The family Became Hoskins Master, when in 1753 Legh Master married Katherine Hoskins heir to the Barrow Green Estate.Surrey Mirror - Friday 26 October 1934, P 11.Accessed 31 March 2026. After nearly 210 years of ownership the property was sold in 1963.Surrey Mirror and County Post 8 November 1963 P.11 accessed 5 February 2024 It was later owned by Mr Al Fayed owner of Harrods.
His Obituary noted that; whilst at Oxted Mr Master took a great interest in local affairs. He was Lord of The Manor of Oxted and patron of the Living. He presented Master Park to the Village. He was a Justice of the Peace and a Deputy-Lieutenant for the county of Surrey from 1900, and in 1901 was High Sheriff. His elder son Charles, in line with family tradition took up residency of Barrow Green Court in 1925. In 1935 Charles was reported to be Lord of the Manor at Barrow Green Court, President and Managing Director of Friary Brewery Company. During the Great War he had commanded the Farnham Company of The Queen's Royal Regiment serving in India.Folkestone Herald 2 Mar 1935, P.11 accessed 6 February 2024Sevenoaks Chronicle and Kentish Advertiser - Friday 15 November 1935, P.3
Brewery history Charles Hoskins Master purchased the controlling interest in the Friary Brewery, Guildford from Mr Taunton on 1 January 1874. He amalgamated with Holroyd's Brewery of Byfleet and then in 1890 Healy's Brewery to form Friary Holroyd and Healy's Brewery. He became the managing director in Oct 1891. The Brewery was Incorporated in 1895. In 1956 Meux's Brewery merged with Friary, Holroyd and Healy's Breweries Limited, Guildford, Surrey, to form Friary Meux Limited. The brewery went into liquidation in November 1961 and was acquired by Allied Breweries. The brewery was demolished in 1974 and is now the site of The Friary Centre.Liverpool Daily Post 29 October 1928 p.3 accessed 5 February 2024.Surrey Advertiser County Times 3 October 1891, P4. Accessed 5 February 2024.Nat Archive ref BT 31/39101/44420 accessed 4 February 2024.National Archives ref LMA/4435/A
Hoskins Arms Hotel With the encouragement of Mr Hoskins Master using his Brewery business and land holdings, The Hoskins Arms Hotel was built at the lower end of Station Road West and first advertised as a family and commercial hotel in a rising neighbourhood to let by the Friary Brewery in 1886. By 1889 The hotel developed as a hub for social activity, it was being advertised as having over two acres of grounds with Lawn Tennis courts, Bowling Green, Quoits grounds, a Bycle track, Good Stabling with loose boxes for hunters. Social events such as Flower shows, Dinners and Auctions were held there. In 1913 the first cinematographic show was held in the grounds which developed into the first cinema called "The Kinema". Eventually listed as a Friary Meux Pub in 1968 the hotel was demolished and replaced by an unusual hexadecagonal building in 1974. The building was on three levels, and incorporated two bars, a coffee shop, a restaurant and twelve letting rooms. It closed in early 1993, and was later badly damaged by fire. A similarly shaped block of apartments stands on the site.The Surrey Mirror and County Post, 28 August 1886, P. 8. Accessed 7 February 2024.The Surrey Mirror and County Post, 3 August 1889, P 3 and 10 August 1889, P.1 accessed 7 February 2024The Surrey Mirror and County Post, 29 December 1967, P.2 accessed 7 February 2024.Caterham Mirror 27 January 1994, P. 3. Accessed 7 February 2024.
Philanthropic gifts In 1908 he gifted the land for the Church Room overlooking Master Park. The building was for the advancement of religion and became a community hub used for readings, meetings, markets and jumble sales until it was demolished in the 1960s.Land Registry title SY389476 Deed of Gift dated 14th Nov 1908 In 1914 he gifted Foxenden Quarry as a green space to Guildford. After the Great War he prompted the brewery shareholders to give Pewley Down to Guildford as a peace thank-offering for the conclusion of the Great War. The deed of conveyance was formally handed to the Mayor of Guildford on 29 July 1920. In 1918, he provided land for a hut on the Oxted recreation Ground for the Comrades of The Great War which later became the Oxted Branch of The Royal British Legion In 1923, he gave Nearly 12 acres to form what became Master Park to the Oxted Parish. He gave Church Organs to St Mary's Oxted, Exbury and Sandgate.Westerham Herald 18 Dec 1926, P.5 accessed 6 February 2024The Surrey Advertiser 31 Jul 1920 p 5 accessed 10 Jul 2024 In December 1926 the Oxted Branch (Club) new building overlooking Master Park was opened by Sir Charles Madden, 1st Baronet. The land and building upon which the club is built was officially transferred between Charles Hoskins Master and Francis Morton Thrupp on 22 January 1927.Westerham Herald 18 Dec 1926 p.8 accessed 1 Dec 2025The Surrey Mirror and County Post page 2 Friday 9 May 1919. accessed 31 Jan 2024The Surrey Mirror and County Post Fri 28 Nov 1924 p.12. accessed 31 Jan 2024door-ceremony.pdf
Death He died at Shakespeare House Sandgate and was buried at St Mary's Church Oxted in the Family tomb.The Surrey Advertiser, County Times 2 Mar 1935, Page 9 accessed 5 February 2024
External links Oxted Barrow Green Mumford, W. F. (2017). The Manor of Oxted, 1360-1420. Surrey Archaeological Collections, 63, 66–94. Leveson Gower, G. (1874). Surrey Etymologies. Tandridge Hundred. Part II. Surrey Archaeological Collections 6. Vol 6, p. 127. https://www.thetimechamber.co.uk/beta/sites/deep-shelters-air-raid-shelters/foxenden-quarry-deep-shelter-guildford
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