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18th Century
In 1796 (some 62 years before it opened its doors as a hotel), the Guernsey Government bought Nicolas Le Mesurierıs substantial residence in Annıs Place, St Peter Port, to provide a permanent Government House for the Bailiwick, which includes Alderney, Herm and Sark. The price paid for the house was £2,750, stated John Jacob in his 'Annals of Guernsey' (1830). 'The house is placed in a very convenient and elevated situation and well adapted for the purpose', he wrote, saying that Government Office was adjacent. For the next 46 years, successive Governors lived here until it ceased to be an official residence in 1842. The last Lieutenant Governor to use it, as Government House, was General Sir James Douglas, after whom one of our modern meeting rooms is now named. |
