To the Manor Born new Lord of the Manor is Richard DeVere, a recently widowed self-made millionaire who started his career on an East End fruit barrow and founded the "Cavendish Foods" supermarket chain, who to Audrey is simply a "grocer". DeVere brings his domineering mother, who is soon nicknamed by Audrey 'Mrs. Poo', her full name being Maria Jaroslava Vladimira Martinka Polouvicka. She reveals to Audrey, who does not like foreigners, that she and her son came to Britain in 1939 from Czechoslovakia, and that Richard, whose real name is Bedrich Polouvicek, is half-Polish (on his late father Lazlo's side) and half-Czechoslovakian. Mrs.
Great Budbridge Manor acquired. However, the manor remained in the name of the family till 1450. More than 200 years later, in 1633 the manor was bought by Sir Robert Dillington, 1st Baronet. The Great Budbridge Manor, a Grade II Listed British heritage building, is located in East Lane south of Merstone and Arreton in the Isle of Weight County in England. Located in a farming area, it is of 12th-century vintage. Owners of the manor house have converted part of their land for commercial use, with many acres devoted to greenhouse farming of tomatoes grown annually and which are sold in most