Wentworth Woodhouse: The House, the Estate and the Family

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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Beskrivning

It was the home of a knight, a baron, a viscount, two marquises and nine earls. The family had estates not only in South Yorkshire, but also in North Yorkshire, the Midlands and Ireland, at their greatest extent covering nearly 120,000 acres. One head of household was beheaded. Another saw one of the last wolves in the British Isles. One owner built the Palladian mansion at Wentworth, which has the longest frontage of any country mansion in Britain, and was one of the earliest growers of pineapples in this country. One head of family was prime minister. Twice. Another provided financial assistance to more than 6,000 of his Irish tenants and their families to emigrate to Canada during the Great Famine. Another had a christening attended by 7,000 official guests. Yet another bought an ocean liner to go and search for buried treasure in the Pacific.This copiously illustrated book explores the history of the house, the estate and the family over more than 400 years, drawing on a wide variety of sources, particularly the family records (the Wentworth Woodhouse Muniments) held in Sheffield Archives.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-05-21
Mått:156 x 234 x 13 mm
Vikt:366 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:152
Förlag:Pen & Sword Books Ltd
ISBN:9781526783011

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Melvyn Jones is a local and landscape historian. On his retirement, after a teaching career in higher education of nearly forty years, he was appointed Visiting Professor in Landscape History at Sheffield Hallam University in 1999\. He is the author of numerous books and articles on the history of South Yorkshire, including _The Making of the South Yorkshire Landscape_ (2000); _The Making of Sheffield_ (2004) and _South Yorkshire Mining Villages_ (2017) all for Pen & Sword Books.Joan Jones was Deputy Head in a junior school then Senior Lecturer in Education at Sheffield Hallam University. She was an advisor to the BBC on the making of TV programmes for schools. She is co-author (with Melvyn Jones) of _Historic Parks and Gardens in and around South Yorkshire_ (Pen & Sword Books) and _Wentworth Woodhouse Gardens: an Illustrated History_ (Green Tree Publications, 2002).Stephen Cooper was a solicitor for almost forty years, in private practice and then in the Government Legal Service. He has written three books on medieval military history for Pen & Sword Books; and written and published three on local history and the 7th Earl Fitzwilliam's search for buried treasure: _Earl Fitzwilliam's Treasure Island_ (with John Moorhouse, 2016), _Cocos Island and the Treasure of Lima_ (2017) and _The Jubilee Poacher_ (2018).