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3 unusual facts about John Dugmore of Swaffham


John Dugmore of Swaffham

In 1820, Dugmore accompanied in the Grand Tour a son of Charles Keppel, perhaps George Thomas (1799-1891), later 6th Earl of Albermarle, Viscount of Bury and Baron of Ashford, who made a brilliant military career (started at Waterloo) as well as was a memorialist, a distinguished collector and a member of the English Society of Antiquaires.

Sometimes he sketches a strange architecture or an historical place, for instance the cell in the Great St. Bernard Hospice where Napoleon slept during the cross of the Alps (1800) or the Clermont Castle, former residence of Blaise Pascal.

Renowned for his taste in arts, he moved to London to seek his fame and fortune at the Royal Court, where he met his ‘patron’, William Charles Keppel (1772-1849), 4th Earl of Albermarle.



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