William Vizard 1774–1859 

Owner 1811- 1831

In 1811 William Vizard, the solicitor to Queen Caroline in her divorce from George IV, was granted a 63-year lease for Kingswood Lodge. When Vizard returned to his native Gloucestershire in 1831, others were granted the property leases.

Built by William Vizard in 1811-12 in the middle of an estate of 75 acres, for which he paid £300 rent a year.

William and his wife Ann Phelps had  (?Three Sons?) two daughters both were born at Kingswood and baptised at the chapel in Dulwich village unfortunately, both daughters never married nor had children. 

Frances Elizabeth Vizard 1815 - 1869 

Caroline Maria Vizard 1821 - 1879

 It is also recorded that six seats in Dulwich Collage Chapel were allotted to William Vizard Esq for the use of the occupiers of his present house called "Kingswood" in Dulwich for 84 years from Michaelmas 1811.

William Vizard spent a great deal of money improving his large Dulwich estate (67 acres at one time). He joined in local social life, becoming a member of the Dulwich Quarterly Meeting of residents, the gentlemen’s dining club, from 1812 until he returned to Gloucestershire in 1831. 

Biography

William Vizard, of 51 Lincoln's Inn Fields, counterclaimed unsuccessfully for compensation for Preference estate in Grenada as mortgagee. It is not known whether he was principal or possibly trustee for the mortgage, but in 1820 he appeared as trustee in an indenture concerning the Maxwell family's interest in estates.

later in life, William Vizard became solicitor to the home office (18?? - 18??)