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1 second 2 seconds 3 seconds 4 seconds 5 seconds 6 seconds 7 seconds 8 seconds 9 seconds 10 seconds 11 seconds 12 seconds 13 seconds 14 seconds 15 seconds 20 seconds delay, loading photo...          The Maharajah of Benares in Stoke Row, c1865. Photo courtesy of Catherine Hope. In about 1850 the Lieutenant-Governor of the North Western Provinces, Edward Anderdon Reade, a squire's son from near Stoke Row, was in Benares discussing with the Maharajah water shortages that were common in both northern India and the Chilterns. Some ten years later the Maharajah offered to set up a charity to help the people of Stoke Row who at that time ran short of water in the hot and dry summer months. Stoke Row and neighbouring Highmoor are small villages, deep in the beech woods of south Oxfordshire, roughly midway between Henley-on-Thames to the east and Wallingford to the west.  Author: H Jenkins,