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Guillermo del Toro’s re-telling of Frankenstein, due out in late 2025, is already being touted as one of Netflix’s biggest success stories, and Burghley House, built in the sixteenth century ...
William Fox-Pitt, here clearing the Cottesmore Leap on Idalgo in 2006, has the most wins at Burghley, with six.. Horse trials have been held at Burghley House since 1961 when its owner the 6th Marquess of Exeter, an Olympic gold medalist in athletics and IOC member, heard that a three-day event at Harewood House could no longer be held due to suspected foot and mouth disease.
[1] [2] On the death of her father in 1981, with the marquessate passing to a Canadian uncle, she and her husband became the custodians of Burghley House for 25 years, increasing annual visitor numbers from 48,000 to 97,000 by 2007, before handing it over to their daughter, Miranda Rock.
Burghley may refer to: William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (1520–1598), chief minister of Queen Elizabeth I of England; Burghley House, a sixteenth-century country house in Cambridgeshire, built for the above; Burghley Horse Trials, an annual three-day event; Burghley, an abandoned English village, believed to be under Burghley House
1962 Burghley Team eventing Patrick Thomas Conolly-Carew, 7th Baron Carew (6 March 1938 – 18 December 2024), was an Anglo-Irish equestrian and hereditary peer .
Burghley House (/ ˈ b ɜːr l i / [1]) is a grand sixteenth-century English country house near Stamford, Lincolnshire. It is a leading example of the Elizabethan prodigy house , built and still lived in by the senior ( Exeter ) branch of the Cecil family and is Grade I listed .
Order of Little Bedlam aka Bedlam Club was a gentlemen's drinking club, founded in 1684 by John Cecil, 5th Earl of Exeter of Burghley House, and lapsing on his death in 1700. In 1705 it was reconvened by his son, John Cecil, 6th Earl of Exeter as grand master ‘Lion’, his brother William as ‘Panther’ and brother Charles as ‘Bull’.
Burghley House in Cambridgeshire (Marquesses of Exeter) – now overseen by Burghley House Preservation Trust Limited. [1] [2] [3] Castle Howard in North Yorkshire (Earls of Carlisle) – now overseen by a Howard family company, Castle Howard Estate Limited. [4] Chatsworth House in Derbyshire (Dukes of Devonshire)