Open Spaces Society also campaigned for the creation of the National Trust. Its founders and early members included John Stuart Mill, Lord Eversley, William Morris, Sir Robert Hunter, and Octavia Hill. The last two founded the National Trust in 1895 along with Canon Rawnsley. Lord Eversley, as George Lefevre, was a Liberal MP and became a junior minister at the Board of Trade in Gladstone’s government. He held a variety of posts including Commissioner of Works. He opened Hampton Court Park, Kew Gardens and Regent’s Park to the public. Over the last century and a half the Society has preserved commons for the
Eynesbury Hardwicke parish council. At the time of the 2001 census, the parish had a population of 1,124. The civil parish was abolished on 1 April 2010 and the area divided between Abbotsley and St Neots. Eynesbury Hardwicke Eynesbury Hardwicke was a civil parish in the Huntingdonshire part of Cambridgeshire, England. Eynesbury Hardwicke was historically part of Eynesbury parish. That parish was split in two in 1895; the village of Eynesbury was incorporated into the town of St Neots. Eynesbury Hardwicke parish was formed from the remaining 2,641 acres (10.7 km²) of countryside. Caldecote Manor, Eynesbury Hardwicke House and the site of