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Owner: Wentworth Woodhouse Preservation Trust: Technical details; Floor count: 5: ... Wentworth Woodhouse is a Grade I listed country house in the village of ...
He also owned Wentworth Woodhouse in Yorkshire [2] – one of the largest private homes in Europe with an assumed 365 rooms. In the 1980s, he invested millions in a firm that claimed to have a cure for herpes [ 3 ] but it never materialised and in 1998 he admitted to debts of £13m.
Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, after Sir Joshua Reynolds. National Portrait Gallery, London. Marquess of Rockingham, in the County of Northampton, was a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was created in 1746 for Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Earl of Malton.
The family seat of Wentworth Woodhouse was sold while the more than 80,000-acre (320 km 2) estate including much of the town of Malton, North Yorkshire, was retained. The other family seat, Milton Hall , and its considerable estate of over 50,000 acres (200 km 2 ) together with valuable properties in Peterborough and the surrounding area ...
Memorial to Thomas Watson-Wentworth in the north choir aisle of York Minster. Hon. Thomas Watson, later known as Thomas Watson-Wentworth (17 June 1665 – 6 October 1723), of Wentworth Woodhouse in Yorkshire, was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1701 and 1723.
The village's history is dominated by the Wentworth, Watson-Wentworth and Wentworth-Fitzwilliam families who lived in Wentworth Woodhouse. They also owned perhaps most of the land in the village. Wentworth gained some independence when the Fitzwilliam family line ended in 1979. [4] The village dates back to at least 1066, according to the ...
William Thomas George Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 10th Earl Fitzwilliam JP (28 May 1904 – 21 September 1979), known as Tom, of Wentworth Woodhouse, near Rotherham, Yorkshire (the largest private residence in England) and of Milton Hall, Peterborough (the largest house in Cambridgeshire), was a British peer.
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 ...