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Petworth House is a late 17th-century Grade I listed country house in the parish of Petworth, West Sussex, England. It was built in 1688 by Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset , and altered in the 1870s to the design of the architect Anthony Salvin . [ 2 ]
Wyndham was born at the family estate, Petworth House, in Sussex.A direct descendant of Sir John Wyndham, he was the fourth (but third surviving) son of Henry Wyndham, 2nd Baron Leconfield, and Constance Evelyn Primrose, daughter of Archibald Primrose, Lord Dalmeny.
He was the eldest illegitimate son and adopted heir of George Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont (1751–1837), by Elizabeth Ilive, his future wife (see Earl of Egremont for earlier history of the family), from whom he inherited Petworth House in Sussex, Egremont Castle and Cockermouth Castle in Cumbria and Leconfield Castle in Yorkshire, all ...
Lord Leconfield inherited the family seat, Petworth House, as well as significant land in Cumberland, including Cockermouth Castle and Scafell Pike. In 1919, he placed Scafell Pike—the highest peak in England—under the custody of the National Trust in honour of the soldiers of the Lake District who served in World War I.
Petworth was donated to the National Trust in 1947 by the first baron's descendant Edward Wyndham, 5th Baron Leconfield (1883-1967) but part of the house is still occupied today by his descendant (John) Max Henry Scawen Wyndham, 7th Baron Leconfield, 2nd Baron Egremont (b. 1948), whose father on his ennoblement in 1963 selected the title Baron ...
The Earl of Northumberland bought Walsingham House in London's Seething Lane for £2,200 in 1603. [10] In 1604, the house was visited by the Jesuit Henry Garnet and the Spanish ambassador Juan de Tassis, 1st Count of Villamediana. [11] Thomas Percy went on to become one of the five conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. The goal of this ...
[2] [5] His descendants were seated at Petworth House for many centuries. Though they originally intended Petworth to be their southern home, the Earls of Northumberland were confined to Sussex by Elizabeth I in the late 16th century, when she grew suspicious of Percy allegiance to her rival, Mary, Queen of Scots. Petworth then became their ...
The Percy family's most ancient English seat. Petworth , Sussex, acquired by Joscelin of Louvain (died 1180), husband of Agnes de Percy, one of the two daughters and co-heiresses of William de Percy (died 1174/5), feudal baron of Topcliffe in Yorkshire (grandson of William de Percy (died 1096)).