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Date: 1905 Client: R Feetham Type: Homestead Status: Extant Street: 47 The Valley Rd   Click to view map Coordinates: 26°10'32.46" S 28°02'14.38" E Alt: 1713m

(Jnl ATA Sep 1916:27) Transcription of Blue Plaque: PARKTOWN RIDGE HERITAGE AREA THE MOOT HOUSE Built for Richard Feetham in 1906 and designed by Baker, Masey and Sloper, this was the first house to be erected on this street. Feetham was brought to Johannesburg in 1902 as deputy town clerk - one of a group of Oxford graduates (Milner's Kindergarten) who were to assist in the reconstruction of the Transvaal after the Anglo-Boer War. This house became their meeting place. Here they drafted the Selbourne Memorandum, precursor to the Union of South Africa. Feetham was town clerk for four years, represented Parktown in parliament, served in the Cape Coloured Corps in World War I and become Judge-President of Natal and Chancellor of the University of the Witwatersrand. He lived here until 1922. (Source: The Heritage Portal) All truncated references not fully cited below are those of Joanna Walker's original text and cited in full in the 'Bibliography' entry of the Lexicon. Books that reference House R Feetham: The Moot House Greig, Doreen. 1970. Herbert Baker in South Africa. Cape Town: PURNELL. pg 242 van der Waal, Gerhard-Mark. 1975. Projek opname historiese gebou in Johannesburg. Eerste verslag. Parktown: Dept Kunsgeskiedenis. RAU. pg 48a, b