Black Dog Halt was opened on 3 November 1863 by the Great Western Railway for Lord Lansdowne of Bowood House.
He had no children and the title became an additional title of the Marquess of Lansdowne, descendants of his uncle John Petty, 1st Earl of Shelburne.
Himmatlal was honored in 1893 with the title of Rao Bahadur by Viceroy of India, Lord Lansdowne.
Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis | Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury | Marquess | Lansdowne Road | Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings | Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley | Marquess of Bute | Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire | James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie | David Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter | Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster | Lord Lansdowne | Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey | Frederick Hervey, 8th Marquess of Bristol | Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava | Victor Hervey, 6th Marquess of Bristol | Robert Wynn Carrington, 1st Marquess of Lincolnshire | Marquess of Rockingham | Marquess of Lansdowne | marquess | John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu | Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon | Paul Marquess | Marquess of Milford Haven | Marquess of Anglesey | Marquess of Ailsa | John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair | William Parr, 1st Marquess of Northampton | Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow | Marquess of Sligo |
The Earl of Bessborough, D.L.,(a Founder), and there was an impressive list of Vice-Presidents, including the Marquess of Lansdowne, the Earl of Limerick, the Earl Jellicoe, The Lord Carrington, The Lord Chalfont, The Lord Shawcross, The Lord Granchester.
The Meikleour Beech Hedge(s) (European Beech = Fagus sylvatica), located near Meikleour, Perth and Kinross, Scotland, alongside the A93 Perth-Blairgowrie Road, was planted in the autumn of 1745 by Jean Mercer and her husband, Robert Murray Nairne on the Marquess of Lansdowne's Meikleour estate.
In England he became known by bas-reliefs executed for the Duke of Devonshire and for the Marquess of Lansdowne.
John Petty, 2nd Marquess of Lansdowne (1765–1809), son of former Prime Minister of Great Britain, William Petty, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne
William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne and 1st Marquess of Lansdowne, British Prime Minister between 1782 and 1783.