By now, the story of Chewton Glen is the stuff of hotel legend: nearly fifty years ago, Martin Skan was looking to build a golf academy when he spotted a derelict eight-bedroom home with a leaky roof in Hampshire. The surrounding 130-acre property, bordered by England’s ancient New Forest National Park and the sea, was so bewitching that he became a hotelier on the spot and developed Chewton Glen into one of the U.K.’s premier luxury country house hotels. Skan boldly introduced what were then no...