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.
Les Augrès Manor Gerald Durrell's works, including "Menagerie Manor", which takes its title from the house. The manor house was bought outright by the Trust from its previous owner in 1971. Since 1958, the grounds of the manor have been developed as a zoological park, originally named "Jersey Zoo", and presently named Durrell Wildlife Park. Les Augrès Manor Les Augrès Manor is a manor house on "La Profonde Rue" in the Vingtaine de Rozel in the parish of Trinity in Jersey. The present building mostly dates from the 19th century, although the site has medieval origins. It is a listed building. The old