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It reverted to the Crown on Fitzwilliam's death and was granted in 1545 to Thomas Seymour, brother to Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, Protector (of the infant King Edward VI, son of King Henry VIII).
The family lived in Mountjoy Square in Dublin, then moved out to Mount Anville in Clonskeagh to a site subsequently named "Knockrabo", where they cultivated a peach orchard, and to Fitzwilliam Place where a town-brick neo-gothic oratory was added (and can still be seen from Leeson Street).
The district has a strong heritage of cricket with former Yorkshire and England captain Geoffrey Boycott born in Fitzwilliam and current Yorkshire and England cricketer Tim Bresnan from Pontefract.
He joined the Fitzwilliam Museum as its director in 1995 upon returning to the United Kingdom from Yale, where he was an honorary member of Manuscript Society, taking a Professorial Fellowship at Clare College at the same time.
Barnsdale was a large country house, built in 1890 as a hunting lodge for Earl Fitzwilliam by architect E. J. May.
Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, source of keyboard music in the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods in England
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Wendy Fitzwilliam (b. 1972), Trinidad and Tobago's second Miss Universe
They were first associated in 1948, when Thurston Dart named them after the Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, where the autograph sources are kept.
To the north is the much larger Merrion Square, with which Richard FitzWilliam was also involved.
The village also plays a large role in the crime novel Nineteen Seventy Four, in which it is introduced in a list of "hard towns for hard men" and then later referred to as "a dirty brown mining town" and "where the night comes early and nowt nothing feels right, where the kids kill cats and the men kill kids".
Notable members of the group included Lord Spencer, Lord Fitzwilliam, William Windham, and Buckingham and Grenville's older brother Thomas Grenville.
Thus, if any is to blame in the short-lived 'Fitzwilliam episode' it is the great Irish politician Henry Grattan and the Ponsonby brothers - presumably William Ponsonby, later Lord Imokilly and his brother John Ponsonby—not to mention Lord Fitzwilliam himself.
Kathleen Mary Fitzwilliam (1826–1894) was the actress daughter of the noted actors Edward Fitzwilliam and Fanny Fitzwilliam.
After considering in isolation And Death Came Too, Mr. Ashley turned his attention to Murder is Easy and started, "Mrs Christie has abandoned M. Hercule Poirot in her new novel, but it must be confessed that his understudy, Luke Fitzwilliam, a retired policeman from the Mayang States is singularly lacking in 'little grey matter.' Poirot may have recently become, with advancing years, a trifle staid, but absence makes the heart grow fonder of him."
The pit was situated on the Wentworth Estates of Earl Fitzwilliam and was owned, until nationalization by Earl Fitzwilliam's Collieries Co.
In 1925 the chancel and a chapel were restored for William Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 7th Earl Fitzwilliam.
He died at Merrion Castle, on 11 April 1667, and was buried on 12 April 1667 in the Fitzwilliam Chapel in Donnybrook church.
The fifth child and only son of the 7th Earl Fitzwilliam, he was born at the family's seat of Wentworth Woodhouse and died in an aircraft accident over Saint-Bauzile, Ardèche, France.
Philippa Congsby (née Phillipa Fitzwilliam; 1530 Melton, Milton, Northamptonshire – 1596) married to Sir Thomas Coningsby and had 11 children.
The depopulation of Fitzwilliam, West Yorkshire which saw around a third of its housing left unoccupied, was brought into culture by a song by Chumbawamba and David Peace's novel Nineteen Seventy Four.
Lord FitzWilliam married Catherine Decker, daughter of Sir Matthew Decker, 1st Baronet, on 3 May 1744.
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FitzWilliam was the eldest son of Richard FitzWilliam, 5th Viscount FitzWilliam, by Frances Shelley, daughter of Sir John Shelley, 3rd Baronet.
The third marriage was dissolved in 1974, and in the same year and at the age of sixty-three, he married his fourth wife, then 39 years old, Lady Juliet Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, only child of Peter Wentworth-FitzWilliam, 8th Earl FitzWilliam, who had previously been married to Victor Hervey, 6th Marquess of Bristol.
The Milton Rooms was given its name by the Fitzwilliam family and originates from their family home Milton Hall.
Lord FitzWilliam married firstly Mary Stapleton, daughter of the leading Parliamentarian Sir Philip Stapleton, a somewhat surprising marriage given the deep division on religion and politics between the two families.
Her second husband's home, Wentworth Woodhouse, near Rotherham, Yorkshire, is the largest private residence in England, and with his second seat of Milton Hall, Peterborough, the largest house in Cambridgeshire, also at her disposal, she may have felt little need to retain Houghton for her own use.
The village's history is dominated by the Wentworth, Watson-Wentworth and Wentworth-Fitzwilliam families who lived in Wentworth Woodhouse.
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The building of the new church, Holy Trinity Parish Church, was commissioned in 1872 by William Thomas Spencer Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 6th Earl Fitzwilliam to the design of John Loughborough Pearson, an exponent of the Gothic Revival style, and consecrated in 1877 by the Archbishop of York.
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The later Fitzwilliam ownership ended in 1979 when William Thomas George Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 10th Earl Fitzwilliam died.
Lord Fitzwilliam died at Marholm at the age of thirty-seven and was succeeded as Earl by his son Charles.
Another son, Benjamin, served as Bishop of Meath and was the father of Olive, Countess Fitzwilliam.
William Henry Wentworth-FitzWilliam (1840–1920), British Liberal, and later Liberal Unionist politician
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William Fitzwilliam, 4th Earl Fitzwilliam (1748–1833), styled Viscount Milton until 1756, British Whig statesman
Arriving in Quebec City in July 1862, Milton and Dr Walter Butler Cheadle traveled across the North American continent, wintering near Fort Carlton.
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Milton was the eldest son of William Wentworth-FitzWilliam, 6th Earl FitzWilliam, and his wife Lady Frances Harriet, daughter of George Douglas, 17th Earl of Morton, and was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge.
The village of Bulwick is the furthest point to the East, where the country borders the Fitzwilliam and Cottesmore hunts, and Irthlingborough is its furthest point south.