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The Caillard Family
Wingfield, Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire
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Monuments to members of the Caillard family in Wingfield churchyard
Camille Félix Desiré Caillard (1822-1898) was born in Paris, son of Camille Timothée Caillard and Séraphine Désirée Henne. He entered the Inner Temple in London and was called to the Bar in 1845, becoming a County Court Judge for Wiltshire in 1859, a JP for Somerset and Wiltshire and Deputy Lieutenant of Wiltshire. He replaced Joseph Grace Smith not only as judge, but succeeded him at Wingfield Manor as well, buying the house in 1861. He went on to own most of the parish of Wingfield.
Sir Vincent Henry Penalver Caillard JP (1856-1930), son of Judge Camille Caillard and his first wife, Emma Louisa Stuckey Reynolds, was a financier, specially involved with Egypt as a director of the Bank of Egypt, also a director the arms company Vickers.
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Wingfield House at the beginning of the 20th century. It was a hospital during the First World War. In 1935 Bernard Caillard and his wife gave it to the Waifs & Strays Society in memory of their daughter Margaret, who had died at 20. The Margaret Caillard Memorial Home for Boys held 30 boys, but it only lasted until 1938 and the house was requisitioned, again, by the army during WW2. The house and its outbuildings were divided into four residential properties after the war.