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2. Wentworth Woodhouse - Wikipedia

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   King George V and Queen Mary visited south Yorkshire from 8 to 12 July 1912 and stayed at Wentworth Woodhouse for four days. The house party consisted of a large number of guests, including: Dr Cosmo Gordon Lang, the then-Archbishop of York; the Earl of Harewood and his Countess; the Marchioness of Londonderry; the Marquess of Zetland and Lady Zetland; the Earl of Scarborough and Lady ...

3. The Rockingham Mausoleum - Wikipedia

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   The mausoleum is built of ashlar sandstone. [2] It is a 90 feet (27 m) high [1] three-stage monument, with obelisks at the four corners. [2] Niches in the walls support busts of eight of the Marquis's closest friends, all luminaries of the Whig hierarchy; Admiral Viscount Keppel, Edmund Burke, Sir George Savile, Charles James Fox, The Duke of Portland, John Lee, Lord John Cavendish and ...

4. Wentworth Castle - Wikipedia

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   The estate of Wentworth Woodhouse, which he believed was his birthright, was scarcely six miles distant and was a constant bitter sting, for the Strafford fortune had passed from William Wentworth, 2nd Earl of Strafford, the childless son of the great earl, to his wife's nephew, Thomas Watson; only the barony of Raby had gone to a blood ...

5. The Country House Revealed - Wikipedia

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   Episode 4 shows Wentworth Woodhouse near Rotherham, one of the largest country houses in Europe. The building exemplifies the workings of British parliamentary democracy before the Reform Act 1832 , and is important in the history of Whig politics, its owners having included influential Prime Minister Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of ...

6. Listed buildings in Wentworth, South Yorkshire - Wikipedia

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   The parish includes the village of Wentworth and the surrounding area. The most important building in the parish is Wentworth Woodhouse, a large country house, which is described as "one of England's greatest and most remarkable houses", and is "celebrated for being the longest front of any English country house". [1]

7. Thomas Watson-Wentworth - Wikipedia

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   By licence dated 18 July 1689 he married Alice Proby, a daughter and heiress [2] of Sir Thomas Proby, 1st Baronet, [3] by whom he had children including: . Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Marquess of Rockingham (13 November 1693 – 14 December 1750), KB, Privy Council of Ireland, a Whig politician who in 1725 rebuilt Wentworth Woodhouse as the palatial building surviving today.

8. Wentworth baronets - Wikipedia

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   The Wentworth Baronetcy, of Wentworth Woodhouse in the County of York, was created in the Baronetage of England on 1611. [1] For more information on this creation, see Earl of Strafford. The Wentworth Baronetcy, of Gosfield in the County of Essex, was created in the Baronetage of England on 29 June 1611 for John Wentworth. The title became ...

9. Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Marquess of Rockingham

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   Watson-Wentworth was born at Tidmington, Worcestershire the only son and heir of Thomas Watson (later Watson-Wentworth, the third son of Edward Watson, 2nd Baron Rockingham) and his wife, Alice Proby, a daughter of Sir Thomas Proby, 1st Baronet. He was admitted at St John's College, Cambridge on 15 May 1707 and was awarded MA in 1708. [1]