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6 unusual facts about William Wentworth-Fitzwilliam


Exton, Rutland

Barnsdale was a large country house, built in 1890 as a hunting lodge for Earl Fitzwilliam by architect E. J. May.

Old Holy Trinity Church, Wentworth

In 1925 the chancel and a chapel were restored for William Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 7th Earl Fitzwilliam.

William Wentworth-Fitzwilliam

William Henry Wentworth-FitzWilliam (1840–1920), British Liberal, and later Liberal Unionist politician

William Fitzwilliam, 4th Earl Fitzwilliam (1748–1833), styled Viscount Milton until 1756, British Whig statesman

William Wentworth-FitzWilliam, Viscount Milton

Arriving in Quebec City in July 1862, Milton and Dr Walter Butler Cheadle traveled across the North American continent, wintering near Fort Carlton.

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.


Arundel House

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).

Christopher Palles

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).

City of Wakefield

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.

Duncan Robinson

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.

Edward Deas Thomson

His experience was particularly useful during the passing of the constitution bill, and he was sent with William Wentworth to England to see the bill through the Imperial parliament.

Fitzwilliam

Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, source of keyboard music in the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods in England

Wendy Fitzwilliam (b. 1972), Trinidad and Tobago's second Miss Universe

Fitzwilliam Sonatas

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.

Fitzwilliam Square

To the north is the much larger Merrion Square, with which Richard FitzWilliam was also involved.

Great Western Highway

In 1813, acting on the instructions of NSW Governor Lachlan Macquarie, Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth led an 1813 expedition that travelled west from Emu Plains and, by staying to the ridges, were able to confirm the existence of a passable route directly west from Sydney across the Blue Mountains.

Grenvillite

Notable members of the group included Lord Spencer, Lord Fitzwilliam, William Windham, and Buckingham and Grenville's older brother Thomas Grenville.

John FitzGibbon, 1st Earl of Clare

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 Fitzwilliam

Kathleen Mary Fitzwilliam (1826–1894) was the actress daughter of the noted actors Edward Fitzwilliam and Fanny Fitzwilliam.

Mildred Cooke

Another daughter, Elizabeth, was born in 1564, and married William Wentworth, but both she and her husband died shortly afterwards without issue.

Murder Is Easy

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."

New Stubbin Colliery

The pit was situated on the Wentworth Estates of Earl Fitzwilliam and was owned, until nationalization by Earl Fitzwilliam's Collieries Co.

Old Holy Trinity Church, Wentworth

The tower dates from the 14th–15th century, while the rest of the church was rebuilt in 1684 for William Wentworth, 2nd Earl of Strafford.

Oliver FitzWilliam, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell

He died at Merrion Castle, on 11 April 1667, and was buried on 12 April 1667 in the Fitzwilliam Chapel in Donnybrook church.

Peter Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 8th Earl Fitzwilliam

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 Coningsby

Philippa Congsby (née Phillipa Fitzwilliam; 1530 Melton, Milton, Northamptonshire – 1596) married to Sir Thomas Coningsby and had 11 children.

Pit village

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.

Richard FitzWilliam, 6th Viscount FitzWilliam

Lord FitzWilliam married Catherine Decker, daughter of Sir Matthew Decker, 1st Baronet, on 3 May 1744.

FitzWilliam was the eldest son of Richard FitzWilliam, 5th Viscount FitzWilliam, by Frances Shelley, daughter of Sir John Shelley, 3rd Baronet.

Somerset de Chair

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.

Strafford County, New Hampshire

It was named after William Wentworth, 2nd Earl of Strafford in the mistaken belief that he was the ancestor of governor John Wentworth.

The Milton Rooms

The Milton Rooms was given its name by the Fitzwilliam family and originates from their family home Milton Hall.

Thomas Belasyse, 1st Viscount Fauconberg

Before the Civil War, Belasyse and his family had a long running confrontation with William Wentworth, a close advisor to King Charles I, primarily over local government issues in Yorkshire.

Thomas FitzWilliam, 4th Viscount FitzWilliam

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.

Thomas Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 10th Earl Fitzwilliam

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.

Wentworth Castle

The estate of Wentworth Woodhouse, which he believed was his birthright, was scarcely six miles distant and was a constant bitter sting, for the Strafford fortune had passed from William Wentworth, 2nd Earl of Strafford, the childless son of the great earl, to his wife's nephew, Thomas Watson; only the barony of Raby had gone to a blood-relation.

Wentworth, South Yorkshire

The village's history is dominated by the Wentworth, Watson-Wentworth and Wentworth-Fitzwilliam families who lived in Wentworth Woodhouse.

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.

The later Fitzwilliam ownership ended in 1979 when William Thomas George Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 10th Earl Fitzwilliam died.

William Fitzwilliam, 3rd Earl Fitzwilliam

Lord Fitzwilliam died at Marholm at the age of thirty-seven and was succeeded as Earl by his son Charles.

William Plunket, 4th Baron Plunket

Another son, Benjamin, served as Bishop of Meath and was the father of Olive, Countess Fitzwilliam.

William Wentworth

He was elected to the Council in 1843 and soon became the leader of the conservative party, opposed to the liberals led by Charles Cowper.

Windermere, New South Wales

William Charles Wentworth purchased the Windermere Estate from Thomas White Melville Winder in 1836.

Woodland Pytchley Hunt

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.


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