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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 .
Leatham is the daughter of David Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter, then known as Lord Burghley, and his second wife, Hon. Diana Henderson, granddaughter of Alexander Henderson, 1st Baron Faringdon. She married Simon Patrick Leatham, son of Major Patrick Magor Leatham, on 25 April 1967. They have two children.
Burghley House, Lincolnshire. 2025’s version of Frankenstein uses Burghley House as one of its filming locations (Burghley House) Guillermo del Toro’s re-telling of Frankenstein, due out in ...
Front of Burghley House in 2009 "The Elizabethans saw architecture as a reflection of power, and for a great potentate, such as Queen Elizabeth I's Lord High Treasurer, William Cecil, a small house was unthinkable." [9] Burghley House was built on the site of an old monastery between 1550 and 1580. [9]
Digger driver Greg Crawley uncovered the marble head of a Roman lady at 16th century country estate Burghley House in Peterborough, England, last year while undertaking renovation works.
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’.
Exeter House, as Exeter 'Change, viewed from the east, in an engraving, 1829. The first, also called Exeter House or Burghley House, was on the north side of The Strand; it was built in the 16th century by William Cecil (later Lord Burghley) as an expansion of an existing house; [a] Cecil moved his London residence there in 1560, and Queen Elizabeth I of England supped with him there, in July ...
- Burghley House It’s now believed the estate’s 18th-century owner, Brownlow Cecil, the ninth Earl of Exeter, brought the sculpture back during an Italian tour in the 1760s — but how it ...