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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.
Holderness House, later Londonderry House, was designed by Athenian Stuart for the 4th Earl of Holderness in the period c. 1760–5, with ceilings based on Robert Wood's Ruins of Palmyra. [3] The Earl is thought to have acquired the building next door as well, but at a later date. He subsequently joined the two so that the house became a double ...
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 ...
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.
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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]
(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 ...
Theresa Susey Helen Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Marchioness of Londonderry (née Chetwynd-Talbot; 6 June 1856 – 16 March 1919) was a British socialite and political hostess. She was a leading Unionist campaigner against Irish Home Rule , serving as president of the Ulster Women's Unionist Council from 1913 to 1919.