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Formerly Tamarisk House built by Sir Robert Harland in 1843 for Lady Harland. In 1863 it was bought by Lady Login who leased it out on short term leases and renamed it Vernon Villa (Vernon being her maiden name). During Lady Login's ownership the poet Edward Fitzgerald, rented it for 4 months. On speech day in 1933 when there were 160 boarders at the college intention was announced to purchase the property which was acquired by Felixstowe Ladies College in 1934 and became Ridley House after the war when the college returned from Riddlesworth hall in Norfolk and named the houses after the martyrs. '