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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 · The name of Petty was assumed by the Hon. John Fitzmaurice, second son of Thomas, twentyfirst Lord Kerry, and of Anne, only daughter of Sir William Petty, on inheriting the Petty estates on the death of his maternal uncle, Henry Petty, Esq., of Shelburne. He was created a peer of Ireland as Viscount Fitzmaurice, and soon after ...
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 2 Tagen · The first puzzle being that a Lord Lansdowne, or perhaps Viscount Lansdowne is familiar to me for some reason. First thought was Lillie Langtry, second thought was Osbert Sitwell. 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 ...
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 5 Tagen · Bowood House & Gardens is open daily. 29th March – 3rd November 2024. 10:30 – 17:30, last admissions 16:30 daily. Discover the rich and fascinating history of Bowood House and the Lansdowne family, set within 100 acres of beautifully landscaped ‘Capability’ Brown Parkland. Surrounding the Georgian House is the Italian-inspired Terrace ...
Vor 4 Tagen · 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.
