Agent TypePersonActivities & OccupationsCompany directorsHistoryBenjamin Nathan successfully ran Maples, a company that owned a chain of furniture and music stores in the early part of the 20th century. He acquired the house 'Rippon Lea', Elsternwick in 1910, and left it to his eldest daughter Louisa when he died in 1935. She lived there with her husband, barrister Timothy Jones, whom she married in 1921. Nathan had hired Stanley Orchard as his head gardener in 1914, and he nurtured orchids in the conservatory and fourteen glasshouses Nathan had built. When Louisa Jones died in 1972 her estate passed to the National Trust. Benjamin Jones, her son, is a director of SELPAM (Aust.) Pty Ltd (Maples spelled backwards).
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