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4 unusual facts about Baron Arundell of Wardour


Baron Arundell of Wardour

While their English titles normally descend according to strict primogeniture, the title of Count under the law of the Holy Roman Empire and later the Austrian Empire belonged equally to all male-line descendants of the original grantee in perpetuity; all male-line descendants of Thomas Arundell were thus sometimes styled "Count" (German: Graf), while female family members were styled "Countess" (Gräfin).

Baron Talbot de Malahide

Robert Arthur Arundell, fourth son of James Everard Arundell, 9th Baron Arundell of Wardour and Charlotte Stuart Parkin, youngest daughter of Dr. Henry Parkin, RN, Inspector-General of Hospitals and Fleets.

John Arundell, 16th Baron Arundell of Wardour

He was the only son of Gerald Arthur Arundell, 15th Baron Arundell of Wardour by his marriage to Ivy Florence Mary Segrave, daughter of Captain W. F. Segrave.

Libraries and collections of Stonyhurst College

The Arundell Library, presented in 1837 by Everard, 11th Baron Arundell of Wardour, is the most significant.


Wardour, Wiltshire

Slighted during the English Civil War, this stronghold was replaced by New Wardour Castle, long the home of the Lords Arundell of Wardour and later that of Cranbourne Chase School.


see also

Isabel Burton

Henry Raymond Arundell (1799–1886) of Kenilworth, Warwickshire, nephew of James Everard Arundell (1785–1834), 10th Baron Arundell of Wardour.

Thomas Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour

Thomas Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour (ca. 1560 – 7 November 1639) was the eldest son of Sir Matthew Arundell of Wardour Castle in Wiltshire (ca. 1532/34–24 December 1598), and Margaret Willoughby, the daughter of Sir Henry Willoughby, of Wollaton, Nottinghamshire.