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Mount Stewart is a 19th-century house and garden in County Down, Northern Ireland, owned by the National Trust.Situated on the east shore of Strangford Lough, a few miles outside the town of Newtownards and near Greyabbey, it was the Irish seat of the Stewart family, Marquesses of Londonderry.
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 principal family seats were Mount Stewart, near Newtownards, County Down, Northern Ireland, and the Wynyard Park estate in County Durham.Other properties included Seaham Hall in County Durham, as well as Londonderry House on Park Lane in London (where the Londonderry Hotel was later located), and Plas Machynlleth in mid-Wales.
Robert was born on 27 September 1739, at Mount Stewart, [1] the eldest son of Alexander Stewart and his wife Mary Cowan. His father was an alderman of Derry in 1760, and his grandfather, Colonel William Stewart, had commanded one of the two companies of Protestant soldiers that Derry admitted into its walls when Mountjoy was sent there by Tyrconnell before the start of the siege. [2]
Edith Helen Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Marchioness of Londonderry, DBE (née Chaplin; 3 December 1878 – 23 April 1959) was a noted and influential society hostess in the United Kingdom between World War I and World War II, a friend of the first Labour prime minister, Ramsay MacDonald. She was a noted gardener and a writer and editor of the works ...
EDITH, MARCHIONESS OF LONDONDERRY, by Philip de Laszlo (1869-1937), in Lady Londonderry's Sitting Room at Mount Stewart House, Co Down, Northern Ireland: Image title: EDITH, MARCHIONESS OF LONDONDERRY, by Philip de Laszlo (1869-1937), in Lady Londonderry's Sitting Room at Mount Stewart House, Co. Down, Northern Ireland. (MST/P/2445) Short title ...
File:Robert Stewart (1739–1821), 1st Marquess of Londonderry, MP by Hugh Douglas Hamilton.jpg
(The master of Mount Stewart is recognisable as the inarticulate tyrant "Lord Mountmumble"). [20] But It is also possible that Londonderry, aware that his wife had continued to send for Porter's offending paper, the Northern Star, [ 21 ] and had corresponded with Greg, believed the minister to have been an original source of her wayward, and ...