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This was laid out in 1904 over the site of the Georgian mansion Byfeld House, which had been demolished two years earlier, following the departure of the Nesbitt family in 1901.. It was named after Edward Byfeld who working for the East India Company was the Governor of St Helena between February 1727 to March 1731. The posting was hardly the most arduous during his time in office he was petitioned by tenant planters to reduce the population of goats, which were causing damage to crops and he requested the supply of coffee plants (which eventually arrived in 1733). He retired to Barnes and died in 1777. In 1828 the house came into the ownership of William Moseley Watts and was converted into a boys’ school.
