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Lady Mairi, born in the house, was the last Londonderry family member to live full time at Mount Stewart, and the last member of this Anglo-Irish family to live full time in Ireland. She died at Mount Stewart on 18 November 2009, at the age of 88, in the same four poster bed, hung with red silk damask, that she had been born in. [44] [45] [46]
Lady Mairi Bury was born Lady Mary Elizabeth Vane-Tempest-Stewart at Mount Stewart, County Down on 25 March 1921. She was the youngest of four daughters and one son of Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry and Edith Helen Vane-Tempest Stewart. Bury was much younger than her siblings; her eldest sister was 21 at the time of ...
The primary version of this portrait is in the collection of the Marquess of Londonderry, on loan to Mount Stuart, NT 1542309. Another studio version is at Blickling Hall, Norfolk, NT 355546. References: National Trust Collections ID: 1220992
The title was created in 1816 for Robert Stewart, 1st Earl of Londonderry.He had earlier represented County Down in the Irish House of Commons.Stewart had already been created Baron Londonderry in 1789, [3] Viscount Castlereagh, of Castlereagh in the County of Down, [4] [5] in 1795 and Earl of Londonderry, of the County of Londonderry, in 1796. [6]
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Frances Stewart, Marchioness of Londonderry (née Pratt; 15 April 1751 – 18 January 1833), was an English aristocrat and mistress of a large landed and politically connected household in late Georgian Ireland.
The estate's great house, Mount Stewart, became his Irish residence but after his second marriage he lived mostly in England. In 1854, when the 3rd Marquess died, his eldest son, Frederick Stewart, 4th Marquess of Londonderry, and his widow, the dowager marchioness, decided to build him a monument. As these two were not at good terms, each ...
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