Identifier: seriesofpictures04morr (find matches)
Title: A series of picturesque views of seats of the noblemen and gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland. With descriptive and historical letterpress
Year: 1840 (1840s)
Authors: Morris, F. O. (Francis Orpen), 1810-1893
Subjects: Historic buildings Historic buildings
Publisher: London (etc.) W. Mackenzie
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
. Sir Wilbraham Tollemache, fifth Earl, Lord High Steward of Ipswich. He diedMarch 9th., 1821, but having no issue, the title went to his sister, Louisa, CountessOP Dysart, born in 1745, who then conveyed it, by her previous marriage in 1765,to John Manners, Esq., of Grantham Grange, in Lincolnshire, whose son took thename and inherited the title. Her younger sister, Jane Tollemache, married, October 23rd., 1771, John Delap Halliday, Esq., ofthe Leasowes, in Shropshire, who took the name of Tollemache, and had fourchildren, of whom the eldest, John Tollemache, Admiral R.N., married Lady Elizabeth Stratford, daughter ofJohn, third Earl of Aldborough. The Admiral succeeded under the will of hisgrandfather, Lionel, third Earl of Dysart, who left the Cheshire, and ultimatelythe Suffolk estates, to the second branch of the family. In 1837 the Admiral wassucceeded by his eldest son, John Tollemache, Esq., M.P. for South Cheshire, raised to the Peerage as BaronTollemache, January 1st., 1876.
Text Appearing After Image:
TYTTENHANGER PARK, NEAR ST. ALBAN^S, HERTFORDSHIRE. COUNTESS OF CALEDON. This house was built by Sir Henry Pope Blount in 1654, in place of a veryancient one formerly belonging to the Abbots of St. Albans. At the dissolution of the monasteries the estate was granted by King Henry theEighth to Sir Thomas Pope, from whom it descended to Sir Henry Blount, whotook the name of Pope, and from him came through the female line to the Countessof Caledon. The house is a handsome building of red brick designed by Inigo Jones. A curious old chapel and a very fine carved oak staircase, among other things,remain of the ancient house of the Abbots. Tyttenhanger was one of the ancient deer parks of England, and was consideredsuch a healthy spot that Henry the Eighth and his Queen and family took refugethere during the sweating sickness in the year 1528. If again We turn to Hertfordshire, how different are the reminiscences! Thatearliest of all British streets, Watling-Street, is to be found here; and

Note About Images