The estate was inherited by Wyndham's son George Wyndham, but after George's death the family started to break it up.
She befriended unionists such as Field Marshal Douglas Haig, Horace Plunkett, and Chief Secretary George Wyndham and also nationalist leaders such as Charles Stuart Parnell, Michael Collins and Éamon de Valera.
Towards the end of his life the couple settled at Clouds House in Wiltshire, designed for his father Percy Wyndham by the Arts and Crafts movement architect, Philip Webb (1886).
Egremont bought land at Houghton in 1800 where he developed chalk pits, which Arthur Young reported in 1808 as producing 40,000 tons annually.
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Town gas was introduced in 1836 when a gas works was built in Station Road, using coal brought to Coultershaw wharf by barge and later by rail to Petworth railway station.
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The earl was an enthusiast for canal building which would allow agricultural improvement on his Petworth estates by bringing in chalk from Houghton for liming and coal to replace scarce supplies of firewood, releasing more land for food production.
North's Plutarch was reprinted for the Tudor Translations (1895), with an introduction by George Wyndham.
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On the opening day she started odds-on favourite for a five furlong Sweepstakes and won from Lord Egremont's filly (later named Miss Petworth).