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George Lane-Fox (sheriff)
George Lane-Fox JP DL (13 November 1816 – 2 November 1896), of Bowcliffe Hall, was an English landowner and politician. Early life Lane-Fox was born on 13 November 1816. He was the only son of George Lane-Fox, MP for Beverley, and Georgiana Henrietta Buckley. His sister, Frederica Elizabeth Lane-Fox, married Hon. Sir Adolphus Liddell (a son of the 1st Baron Ravensworth).L. G. Pine, ''The New Extinct Peerage 1884-1971: Containing Extinct, Abeyant, Dormant and Suspended Peerages With Genealogies and Arms'' (London: Heraldry Today, 1972), page 29. By early 1824, his parents were separated, and by the late 1820s, his mother "had a 'notorious' and indiscreet affair" with the Earl of Chesterfield, who later abandoned her to marry Anne Weld Forester in 1830. His brother Sackville succeeded him in 1840. His father was the eldest son of James Fox-Lane, of Bramham Park, and Hon. Mary Lucy Pitt (a daughter of the 1st Baron Rivers). His maternal grandparents were Edward Percy Buck ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Stanhope, Countess Of Chesterfield
Anne Elizabeth Stanhope, Countess of Chesterfield (''née'' Weld-Forester; 7 September 1802 – 27 July 1885) was a British peeress and political confidante. Life Stanhope was born in 1802, the eldest daughter of Cecil Weld-Forester, MP, later the 1st Baron Forester, and Lady Katherine Manners, the daughter of Charles Manners, 4th Duke of Rutland. The family home was Willey Park in Shropshire. A younger sister was Selina Bridgeman, Countess of Bradford. In 1830, Lord Derby proposed to her, but she instead accepted the proposal of George Stanhope, 6th Earl of Chesterfield. They had one son and a daughter, Lady Evelyn Stanhope (1834–1875), later the first wife of Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon. Anne Stanhope's husband was considered a wastrel, who spent much of his time asleep in Bretby Hall and let his lands at Bretby to go to waste. He died in June 1866, aged 61, and was succeeded by their son, George. Like her sister Selina, Countess of Bradford, Anne was an inti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ince Blundell Hall
Ince Blundell Hall is a former English country house, country house near the village of Ince Blundell, in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside, England. It was built between 1720 and 1750 for Robert Blundell, the lord of the manor, and was designed by Henry Sephton, a local mason-architect. Robert's son, Henry Blundell (art collector), Henry, was a collector of paintings and antiquities, and he built impressive structures in the grounds of the hall in which to house them. In the 19th century, the estate passed to the Weld family. Thomas Weld Blundell modernised and expanded the house, and built an adjoining chapel. In the 1960s, the house and estate were sold again, and have since been run as a nursing home by the Canonesses of St. Augustine of the Mercy of Jesus. The hall is Georgian architecture, Georgian in style, and consists of a main block with a service block linked at a right-angle to its rear. The hall is recorded in the National Heritage List for Engla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weld-Blundell Family
The Weld-Blundell family are a cadet branch, arisen in 1843, of the English Welds of Lulworth. It is an old gentry family which claims descent from Eadric the Wild and is related to other Weld branches in several parts of the United Kingdom, notably from Willey, Shropshire and others in the Antipodes and America. A notable early Weld was William de Welde (or atte Welde), High Sheriff of London in 1352, whose progeny moved in and out of obscurity. This Weld line is itself a cadet line originating from John Weld of Eaton, Cheshire and descends from his youngest son, Sir Humphrey Weld, Lord Mayor of London (1608), a Protestant, whose grandson of the same name, having reverted to Catholicism, purchased Lulworth Castle in Dorset, England, in 1641. They were a notable recusant family prior to Catholic Emancipation in the 19th century. The distantly related Catholic Blundell family died out at the start of the 19th century and passed on their Ince Blundell estate to Thomas Weld ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcus Slade
Lieutenant General Marcus John Slade (22 January 1801 – 7 March 1872) was a British Army officer who became Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey. Early life Slade was the fourth son of General Sir John Slade, 1st Baronet (1762–1853) and the younger twin brother of Sir Frederic Slade, 2nd Baronet, who succeeded their father in the baronetcy. His youngest brother by his father's first wife was Admiral Sir Adolphus Slade. Military career Slade was commissioned into the 75th Regiment of Foot in 1819. He was appointed Commanding Officer of the 90th Light Infantry and commanded that Regiment throughout the 7th Xhosa War in 1846 and 1847. He was appointed Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey in 1859 and was also Colonel of the 50th (Queen's Own) Regiment of Foot from 1862 to his death in 1872. He lived at Elvington House in Ryde on the Isle of Wight and is buried in the Old Cemetery at Ryde. Family In 1842, he married Charlotte Ramsay, granddaughter of George Ramsay, 8th Earl of Da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Portrait Gallery, London
The National Portrait Gallery (NPG) is an art gallery in London that houses a collection of portraits of historically important and famous British people. When it opened in 1856, it was arguably the first national public gallery in the world that was dedicated to portraits. The gallery moved in 1896 to its current site at St Martin's Place, off Trafalgar Square, and adjoining the National Gallery. The National Portrait Gallery also has regional outposts at Beningbrough Hall in Yorkshire and Montacute House in Somerset. It is unconnected to the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh, with which its remit overlaps. The gallery is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. Collection The gallery houses portraits of historically important and famous British people, selected on the basis of the significance of the sitter, not that of the artist. The collection includes photographs and caricatures as well as paintings, drawings ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bletchingley (UK Parliament Constituency)
Bletchingley was a parliamentary borough in Surrey. It returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of England from 1295 to 1707, to the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800, and to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom until 1832, when the constituency was abolished by the Great Reform Act. Elections were held using the bloc vote system. The constituency was just 3 miles south-east of the similar rotten borough of Gatton. History Bletchingley was one of the original boroughs enfranchised in the Model Parliament, and kept its status until the Reform Act. The borough consisted of the former market town of Bletchingley in Surrey, which by the 19th century had shrunk to a village. In 1831, the population of the borough was 513, and it contained only 85 houses. It was a burgage borough: the right to vote was exercised by the owners or resident tenants of the 130 "burgage tenements". No doubt at some point in history these were simply the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
