FROM CORNWALL TO STOKE ON TRENT AND BACK AGAIN: THE HISTORY OF THE CUNLIFFE-COPELAND FAMILY
Leonard Daneham Cunliffe was deputy governor of the Bank of England, co-founder of the merchant bank Cunliffe Brothers and director of the Hudson Bay Company.When he died in 1937, he bequeathed much of his antiques collection to the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.
But he left his country house estate - Trelissick, in Cornwall - to his stepdaughter, Ida Copeland.
Ida was the daughter of Count Camillo Fenzi, a Tuscan senator, but her father died and her mother married Leonard Cunliffe and she moved to Cornwall.
Ida married Ronald Copeland, the president of Copeland and Spode, a successful ceramics company in Stoke-on-Trent.
In 1931, she stood successfully against Sir Oswald Mosley and became Conservative MP for Stoke.
In 1955, much of the estate was donated to the National Trust in 1955 by Mrs Copeland, William Copeland's grandmother.
This year, the last generation of the family will move out when William and Jennifer Copeland take their family to live in a smaller house nearby.
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