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Wilton House is an English country house at Wilton near Salisbury in Wiltshire, which has been the country seat of the Earls of Pembroke for over 400 years. It was built on the site of the medieval Wilton Abbey .
Wilton House Museum is a museum in a historic house located in Richmond, Virginia. Wilton was constructed c. 1753 by William Randolph III , son of William Randolph II , of Turkey Island . Wilton was originally the manor house on a 2,000-acre (8.1 km 2 ) tobacco plantation known as "World's End" located on the north bank of the James River ...
Leda and the Swan is a c.1515 painting by Cesare da Sesto, a painter in the circle of Leonardo da Vinci. [1] It is now in Wilton House near Salisbury, UK. [2] With other versions now at the Galleria Borghese (probably also by Cesare) and Uffizi, it is thought to be one of three of the closest copies after Leonardo's own lost work on the subject.
William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke (8 April 1580 – 10 April 1630) KG, PC, of Wilton House in Wiltshire, was an English nobleman, politician and courtier. He served as Chancellor of the University of Oxford and together with King James I founded Pembroke College, Oxford.
The Wilton Circle were an influential group of 16th-century English poets, led by Mary Sidney. They were based at Wilton House , Wiltshire , which was run by the half-brother of Walter Raleigh . Sidney turned Wilton into a "paradise for poets", and the circle included Edmund Spenser , Michael Drayton , Sir John Davies , Abraham Fraunce , and ...
Wiston House is a 16th-century Grade I listed building set in the South Downs National Park on the south coast of England, surrounded by over 6,000 acres (2,400 ha) of parkland in Wiston, West Sussex. It is the home of Wilton Park, an executive agency of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
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Wilton House. Pembroke is the only son of Henry Herbert, 17th Earl of Pembroke, by his first wife, Claire. [1]He has three older sisters (including Lady Emma Herbert) and three younger half-sisters by his father's second marriage.