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Stepleton House
Stepleton House is a 17th-century country house in the parish of Iwerne Stepleton in Dorset, situated about north of Blandford Forum, Dorset, England. It is a Grade I listed building. Originally built around a courtyard, the house is now a six- by five-bay block with flanking pavilions. It is constructed of ashlar in two storeys plus basement and attics with a hipped stone slate roof. The main house dates from the 17th century and the pavilions from the 18th century. The six-bay frontage has a two-bay pedimented centrepiece. The house stands in a park through which runs the River Iwerne. The grounds and the stable block are separately Grade II listed. History Stepleford House was built for Thomas Fownes in 1634 on land he had bought from George Pitt of Stratfield Saye, Hampshire. It was sold by his descendant, also Thomas Fownes, in 1745 for £12,500 to Julines Beckford, son of a rich Jamaican plantation owner. Beckford remodelled the house and developed the grounds, creati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iwerne Stepleton
Iwerne Stepleton (anciently Ewern Stapleton, etc.) is a small civil parish and former manor in the county of Dorset, England. The parish comprises about 800 acres of land and lies on the eastern side of the River Iwerne. The soil is chalk. The surviving St Mary's parish church, to the west of the parish, was founded in about 1100 and stood originally surrounded by the village of Iwerne Stepleton, deserted at some time before 1662 and replaced by the surviving large structure of Stepleton House Stepleton House is a 17th-century country house in the parish of Iwerne Stepleton in Dorset, situated about north of Blandford Forum, Dorset, England. It is a Grade I listed building. Originally built around a courtyard, the house is now a six ....'Iwerne Stepleton', in An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset, Volume 3, Central (London, 1970), pp. 132–135. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/dorset/vol3/pp132-135 References External links {{authority control V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blandford Forum
Blandford Forum ( ) is a market town in Dorset, England, on the River Stour, Dorset, River Stour, north-west of Poole. It had a population of 10,355 at the United Kingdom 2021 census, 2021 census. The town is notable for its Georgian architecture, the result of rebuilding after a major fire in 1731; it was assisted by an Act of Parliament and a donation by George II of Great Britain, George II, to designs by local architects Bastard brothers, John and William Bastard. The town's economy is based on a mix of the Tertiary sector of the economy, service sector and light industry. Blandford Camp, a military base, is on the hills north-east of the town. It is the base of the Royal Corps of Signals, the communications wing of the British Army, and the site of the Royal Signals Museum. History Blandford has been a ford (river), fording point on the River Stour, Dorset, River Stour since Anglo-Saxon England, Anglo-Saxon times. The name Blandford derives from the Old English ''blǣ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grade I Listed Building
In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of particular architectural or historic interest deserving of special protection. Such buildings are placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Historic Environment Division of the Department for Communities in Northern Ireland. The classification schemes differ between England and Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland (see sections below). The term has also been used in the Republic of Ireland, where buildings are protected under the Planning and Development Act 2000, although the statutory term in Ireland is "Record of Protected Structures, protected structure". A listed building may not be demolished, extended, or altered without permission from the local planning authority, which typically consults the relevant central government agency. In England and Wales, a national amenity society must be notified of any work to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Pitt (died 1694)
George Pitt JP (9 May 1625 – 27 July 1694) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1660 to 1679. Early life Pitt was the eldest surviving son of Edward Pitt of Strathfieldsaye, Hampshire and his wife Rachel Morton, daughter of Sir George Morton, 1st Baronet of Milborne St. Andrew, Dorset. He succeeded to Stratfield Saye House on the death of his father in 1643 and served briefly as a cornet in the Royalist army from 1643 to 1644. He travelled abroad from 1644 to 1646 and was a student of Middle Temple in 1652 and Inner Temple in 1654. Career In 1660, Pitt was elected Member of Parliament for Wareham in the Convention Parliament, although as a Cavalier he had not been entitled to stand; in spite of his background, he was on good terms with Presbyterian and Independent members. He was made gentleman of the privy chamber in June 1660 and J.P. for Hampshire and Gloucestershire in July 1660. In August 1660 he became commissioner for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julines Beckford
Julines Beckford ( – ) was a British politician and planter who sat in the Parliament of Great Britain representing the parliamentary constituency of Salisbury from 1754 to 1764. He was the brother of fellow politician William Beckford. Beckford also owned several slave plantations in the British colony of Jamaica The Crown Colony of Jamaica and Dependencies was a British colony from 1655, when it was Invasion of Jamaica (1655), captured by the The Protectorate, English Protectorate from the Spanish Empire. Jamaica became a British Empire, British colon .... https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146650155 References Members of Parliament for Salisbury British MPs 1754–1761 1710s births 1764 deaths Year of birth uncertain British MPs 1747–1754 British slave owners Beckford family {{England-GreatBritain-MP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Beckford (hunter)
Sir Peter Beckford ( – ) was a British writer and politician who represented Morpeth (UK Parliament constituency), Morpeth in the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1768 to 1774. He was also a patron of Classical music, classical composer and pianist Muzio Clementi. A prominent member of the fox hunting community in England, he owned a pack of hunting dogs and wrote the work ''Thoughts upon Hunting'' (1781) which served as a guide to the practise. Biography Peter Beckford was born the only son of Julines Beckford of Iwerne Stepleton, Dorset in 1740. He was a nephew of William Beckford (politician), William Beckford, Lord Mayor of the City of London, and cousin of William Thomas Beckford (1760–1844), author of the Gothic novel ''Vathek'' and builder of the folly Fonthill Abbey. In 1765, on the death of his father, Beckford inherited his estate at Stepleton House in the parish of Iwerne Stepleton near Blandford Forum in Dorset, and set out on his first visit to Italy. O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muzio Clementi
Muzio Filippo Vincenzo Francesco Saverio Clementi (23 January 1752 – 10 March 1832) was an Italian-British composer, virtuoso pianist, pedagogue, conductor (music), conductor, music publisher, editor, and piano manufacturer, who was mostly active in England. Encouraged to study music by his father, he was sponsored as a young composer by Sir Peter Beckford (hunter), Peter Beckford who took him to England to advance his studies. Later, he toured Europe numerous times from his long-standing base in London. It was on one of these occasions, in 1781, that he engaged in a piano competition with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Influenced by Domenico Scarlatti's harpsichord school and Joseph Haydn's classical period (music), classical school and by the Galant music, ''stile Galante'' of Johann Christian Bach and Ignazio Cirri, Clementi developed a fluent and technical legato style, which he passed on to a generation of pianists, including John Field (composer), John Field, Johann Baptist C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rome
Rome (Italian language, Italian and , ) is the capital city and most populated (municipality) of Italy. It is also the administrative centre of the Lazio Regions of Italy, region and of the Metropolitan City of Rome. A special named with 2,746,984 residents in , Rome is the list of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, third most populous city in the European Union by population within city limits. The Metropolitan City of Rome Capital, with a population of 4,223,885 residents, is the most populous metropolitan cities of Italy, metropolitan city in Italy. Rome metropolitan area, Its metropolitan area is the third-most populous within Italy. Rome is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, within Lazio (Latium), along the shores of the Tiber Valley. Vatican City (the smallest country in the world and headquarters of the worldwide Catholic Church under the governance of the Holy See) is an independent country inside the city boun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Pitt-Rivers, 4th Baron Rivers
George Pitt-Rivers, 4th Baron Rivers (16 July 1810 – 28 April 1866), known as George Beckford until 1828, was a British peer and politician. He held a place as a Lord-in-waiting in several governments, migrating from the Tory to the Liberal Party over the course of his career. He commanded the Queen's Own Dorset Yeomanry, Dorsetshire Yeomanry Cavalry for a decade. His four sons all suffered from a lung disease, and only the youngest briefly survived him to inherit the barony. Background Born George Beckford, Lord Rivers was the elder son of Horace Pitt-Rivers, 3rd Baron Rivers. He was educated at Harrow School from 1821 to 1826, and matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford on 5 June 1828. He took the surname of Pitt in November 1828 after his father inherited the Pitt estates and, by special remainder, the title of Baron Rivers from his maternal uncle, George Pitt, 2nd Baron Rivers. Political career Lord Rivers succeeded in the barony on the death of his father in 1831 and took h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir John Hadley D'Oyly
Sir John Hadley D'Oyly, 6th Baronet (January 1754, Ipswich – 5 January 1818, Calcutta, Bengal, British India) was a politician in Great Britain. He primarily inherited debt when his father died when he was ten, but through family connections had a successful career with the East India Company. Returning to Ipswich a wealthy man, he settled his fathers debts and aligned himself with the Ipswich Yellow Party. He served as the MP for the town for several years in the 1790s. He returned to India in 1803 where he lived until his death in 1818. Early life His father, Hadley D'Oyly, was rector of Wotton and Felixstowe. His mother was Henrietta Maynard Osborne, daughter of Reverend Henry Osborne, the Vicar of Thaxted, Essex. His father died when John was ten years old, only leaving debt as a legacy. His mother educated him herself until through the influence of Charles Bunbury, John entered the service of the East India Company (EIC) in 1769 as a "writer", i.e. a junior clerical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Country Houses In Dorset
A country is a distinct part of the Earth, world, such as a state (polity), state, nation, or other polity, political entity. When referring to a specific polity, the term "country" may refer to a sovereign state, List of states with limited recognition, state with limited recognition, Country (other)#Administrative divisions, constituent country, or dependent territory. Most sovereign states, but not all countries, are members of the United Nations. There is no universal agreement on List of sovereign states, the number of "countries" in the world, since several states have disputed sovereignty status or limited recognition, and a number of non-sovereign entities are commonly considered countries. The definition and usage of the word "country" are flexible and have changed over time. ''The Economist'' wrote in 2010 that "any attempt to find a clear definition of a country soon runs into a thicket of exceptions and anomalies." Areas much smaller than a political entit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
