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Vigors was born at Hatfield, Hertfordshire, on 22 March 1921. [1] Although Vigors's father worked as a stockbroker, the family were landowners in County Carlow in Ireland and owned Tullamaine Castle stud in County Tipperary.
This is a list of destroyed heritage of the United States. The year of demolition is marked in parentheses. This is a list of cultural-heritage sites that have been damaged or destroyed accidentally, deliberately, or by a natural disaster , sorted by state.
The castle burned down after. It was later reconstructed in the 1990s. On the morning of 31 October 2019, the main courtyard structures of the castle were again destroyed in a fire. The Kinkaku-ji (Golden Pavilion) of Kyoto was burnt down by an arsonist in 1950, but was restored in 1955. [116]
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Count von Ostein was born on 2 February 1693 in Amorbach.He was the son of Anna Karolina Maria von Schönborn and Johann Franz Sebastian von Ostein (1652–1718). His father sold his inherited property, including the ancestral Schloss Ostein which was destroyed in the Thirty Years' War, to the Antoniter Commandery of Isenheim in Alsace.
1864 – Boijmans Museum, Rotterdam, Netherlands, destroyed 198 Dutch Old Master paintings. 1870 – Château de Saint-Cloud destroyed by fire, October 13, 1870. 1870 – Wickford Bank Fire, Rhode Island, destroyed 160 years of town records kept in bank vault [3] (records for what are multiple towns today such as Narragansett, North Kingstown ...
Pamela Freeman-Mitford was born on 25 November 1907, the second daughter of David Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale, and Sydney Bowles (1880–1963).. John Betjeman, who for a time was in love with her, referred to her in his unpublished poem, "The Mitford Girls", as the "most rural of them all" since she preferred to live quietly in the country.
Clumber Park in Nottinghamshire, the seat of the Dukes of Newcastle, was demolished in 1938.. When Evelyn Waugh's novel Brideshead Revisited, portraying life in the English country house, was published in 1945, its first few chapters offered a glimpse of an exclusive and enviable world, a world of beautiful country houses with magnificent contents, privileged occupants, a profusion of servants ...