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The library at Blickling Estate contains one of the most historically significant collections of manuscripts and books in England. The library's estimated 13,000 to 14,000 volumes span 146 linear feet. The core collection was formed by Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742), a cousin of the Hobarts of Blickling. [11]
The Blickling Park mausoleum is a Grade II* listed building in the grounds of Blickling Hall, Norfolk, England. It was commissioned in 1793 by Lady Caroline Suffield, the daughter of John Hobart, 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire , as a tomb for her father and his two wives.
Blickling is a village and civil parish in the Broadland district of the English county of Norfolk. Blickling is located 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north-west of Aylsham and 13 miles (21 km) north of Norwich. Most of the village is located within the Blickling Estate, which has been owned by the National Trust since 1940.
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William Boleyn was born at Blickling Hall in Norfolk, [5] the younger of the two sons of Sir Geoffrey Boleyn (1406–1463), [6] a wealthy member of the Worshipful Company of Mercers who purchased the Blickling estate in 1452 [7] and served as Lord Mayor of London in 1457–58. [8]
William had acquired the Blickling estate in Norfolk (with 8,000 acres) through his marriage to Lady Caroline Hobart (daughter and co-heir to John Hobart, 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire) but they had no descendants. William now changed his will so that instead of Blickling being bequeathed to Edward, it would revert to Lady Caroline's Hobart ...
Mary was probably born at Blickling Hall, the family seat in Norfolk, and grew up at Hever Castle, Kent. [5] She was the daughter of a wealthy diplomat and courtier, Thomas Boleyn, later Earl of Wiltshire, by his marriage to Elizabeth Howard, the eldest daughter of Thomas Howard, then Earl of Surrey and future 2nd Duke of Norfolk, and his first wife Elizabeth Tilney. [4]
Oliver Le Neve (1662 – November 1711) was a Norfolk country squire and landowning sportsman who lived most of his life at Witchingham Hall in Great Witchingham, Norfolk, England, and is significant for his 1698 mortal duel with Sir Henry Hobart of Blickling Hall, the last-recorded duel fought in Norfolk.