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Vor 3 Tagen · In 1856 the Ecclesiastical Commissioners sold 539 a. of the manor to the tenant Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, marquess of Lansdowne, the owner of Bowood House, and about then the rest of the manor, c. 150 a., was bought by George Walker Heneage, the tenant of that land and the lord of Compton Bassett manor.
Vor 2 Tagen · He was created a peer of Ireland as Viscount Fitzmaurice, and soon after promoted to the Earldom of Shelburne. His son and successor, William the second earl, and the purchaser of Lansdowne House, was advanced to the Marquisate of Lansdowne in 1784. The above Sir William Petty, of whose talents and public services we have spoken in a ...
Vor 2 Tagen · Perusal of Wikipedia gets me first to reference 2, for the house, and second to reference 3, the most likely familiar - a marquess rather than a lord or a viscount. However, it turns out that I have confused Viscount Lansdowne with Lord/Count/Earl Londesborough, another very rich man, but a rather more raffish one, a member of the circle of the Prince of Wales with whom Lillie was connected ...
Vor 5 Tagen · Tokenhouse Yard was built in the reign of Charles I., on the site of a house and garden of the Earl of Arundel (removed to the Strand), by Sir William Petty, an early writer on political economy, and a lineal ancestor of the present Marquis of Lansdowne. This extraordinary genius, the son of a Hampshire clothier, was one of the earliest members of the Royal Society. He studied anatomy with ...
Vor einem Tag · George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, KG, GCSI, GCIE, PC, FRS, FRGS, FBA (11 January 1859 – 20 March 1925), styled Lord Curzon of Kedleston between 1898 and 1911 and then Earl Curzon of Kedleston between 1911 and 1921, was a prominent British statesman, Conservative politician and writer who served as Viceroy of India from 1899 to 1905.
Vor 2 Tagen · William Petty-Fitzmaurice, 1st Marquess of Landsdowne – who sympathised with Unitarianism – built a laboratory for the famous dissenter at Bowood House. Reproduction of Joseph Priestley's oxygen apparatus. Priestley assembled his oxygen paper and several others into a second volume of Experiments and Observations on Air, published in 1776 ...
Vor 2 Tagen · Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 6th Marquess of Lansdowne: Peter Arrell Browne Widener Private sale: $0.6 million Small Cowper Madonna: Raphael: c. 1504–1505 1913: Joseph Joel Duveen: Peter Arrell Browne Widener Private sale: $1.6 million Benois Madonna: Leonardo da Vinci: c. 1478–1480 1914: Benois family: Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia Private ...
